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Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2014
GCHQ launches Cryptoy mobile app to teach cryptography

Cryptoy is the free educational app about cryptography designed by GCHQ for use by secondary school students and their teachers. The British Intelligence agency GCHQ has launched “Cryptoy”, an Android mobile app that was designed to encourage youngsters to tackle emerging cyber security threats, the Agency made it available to download today. The Cryptoy mobile app was developed by […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 14, 2014
Android malware used to spread pirated Assassin Creed App

Security experts at Zscaler discovered a pirated version of the Assassin Creed mobile app for Android that was used to spread a malware. Security experts at Zscaler discovered a trojanized and pirated version of the popular Assassin Creed application for Android platform. Assassin Creed is one of the most popular paid video games, available for almost […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 13, 2014
Internet of Things – Security and privacy issues presented at ISACA Roma & OWASP Italy conference

Yesterday Pierluigi Paganini presented at the ISACA Roma & OWASP Italy conference the state of the art for the Internet of Things paradigm. Yesterday I presented at the ISACA Roma & OWASP Italy conference the state of the art for the Internet of Things paradigm. The presentation highlights the security and privacy issues for the […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 08, 2014
93 percent of Government Chinese websites are vulnerable

A report issued by the China Software Testing Center revealed that 93 percent of Chinese websites are vulnerable to cyber attacks. Nearly 93 percent of 1,000 Chinese government websites under evaluation is affected by vulnerabilities and other security issues. The data is part of a study conducted by the China Software Testing Center under the Chinese […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 05, 2014
DeathRing, a new Pre-loaded mobile trojan in the wild

The number of Pre-loaded mobile trojan in the wild is increasing, DeathRing is the last one discovered by the experts at Lookout firm. It’s not first the time that Android handsets come preloaded with malware, but cyber security experts are warning of a worrying increase of the cases. The problem is widespread in Asia and Africa, […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 01, 2014
Crashing WhatsApp by sending a specially crafted message

Indian researchers have discovered a flaw in WhatsApp that allows anyone to remotely crash the popular mobile app by sending a specially crafted message. A “nice” vulnerability has been discovered in the popular messaging app WhatsApp that could be exploited by an attacker to remotely crash the mobile app just by sending a specially crafted message. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 28, 2014
The Twitter App Graph feature will track users mobile apps for commercial purposes

Twitter announced app graph, it will now track every mobile app its users have Installed on their smartphones and tables.  Privacy advocates arise. Twitter announced the implementation of the “app graph” function that will allow the company to provide “more personal Twitter experience” by serving targeted advertisements by serving targeted advertisements. This means that also Twitter, like […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 21, 2014
Brazilian bank users threatened by 2 malicious apps deployed on the Google Play

Kaspersky Lab discovered a couple of malicious apps deployed on the official Google Play Store that targets Brazilian Android mobile banking users. A couple of malicious apps targeting Brazilian Android users were recently found in the official Google Play by experts at Kaspersky Lab. The malicious apps targeted mobile banking users using an appearance similar to the one of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 20, 2014
A new critical flaw affects Android OS except Lollipop

The security researcher Jann Horn discovered a privilege escalation flaw that affects Android OS devices except the Lollipop version. A critical vulnerability affects the Android OS versions prior to 5.0 that could be exploited by an attacker to bypass ASLR and run arbitrary code on a target device under specific conditions. The vulnerability was fixed in the latest version of […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2014
WhatsApp implements encryption by default on Android OS

WhatsApp implemented the encryption by default on Android OS with the collaboration of the Open Whisper company. Soon it will be extended to other platforms. Many time security community has discussed about security of the popular messaging application WhatsApp, early 2014 experts at Praetorian discovered different security issues in the way WhatApp implements SSL, the principal one is the […]