Pierluigi Paganini
October 26, 2014
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is warning of the presence of a Zero-Day flaw in the Samsung FindMyMobile service. The US-CERT/NIST is warning of the presence of a zero-day flaw that affects the Samsung FindMyMobile web service (CVE-2014-8346). The Samsung FindMyMobile implements several features that allow users to locate the lost device, to play an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 26, 2014
The security firm AdaptiveMobile has discovered a new variant of Koler ransomware is capable of self-replication via SMS messages. A new strain of the Koler Android ransomware is threatening the mobile industry, the new variant spreads itself via SMSs and holds the victimâs device phone hostage until a ransom is paid. The Koler ransomware were detected by experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 25, 2014
The Chinese jailbreaking team Pangu has just released a software that allows Apple users to jailbreak their mobile devices using  iOS 8 and iOS 8.1 The Jailbreak for the new iOS 8.1 is available on the Internets, The Chinese jailbreaking team Pangu has just released an application that allows Apple users to jailbreak their mobile devices, including iPhones, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2014
Two researchers at Fortinet have demonstrated during the last Black Hat Europe conference how to hide a malicious Android APK in images. Mobile devices are continuously under attacks, cyber criminals are improving their technique to attack mobile users and increase the profits. Â AÂ new technique recently disclosed, allows attackers to hide encrypted malicious Android applications inside […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 15, 2014
Researcher explains that vulnerable code re-use of zero-day in Android’s CyanogenMod exposes million users to Man-In-The-Middle attacks. Security experts always discourage jailbreaking and rooting of mobile devices due to the risk related to the installation of not authorized applications that could hide malware and serious bugs. At the Ruxcon Security Conference in Australia, an unnamed security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2014
The Snappening, hundreds of thousands of unaware users have had their personal Snapchat photos and videos public disclosed by hackers. The Fappening is considered my mass media one of most interesting case of privacy violation, four archives containing a numerous celebrities nude photos have been released in the last weeks … and many experts sustain that the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2014
An Authentication vulnerability in PayPal mobile API, discovered more than one year ago, allows access to restricted Accounts. Another authentication flaw affects PayPal mobile API, an attacker exploiting it could gain access to Blocked Accounts. The authentication restriction bypass vulnerability, resides in the mobile API authentication procedure of the PayPal online-service, according to Vulnerability Laboratory […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 09, 2014
A team of German researchers developed an innovative Android app dubbed DREBIN capable of detecting 94 percent of mobile malware. A team of German researchers composed by Daniel Arp, Konrad Rieck, Malte Hubner, Michael Spreitzenbarth of Siemens computer emergency response team and Hugo Gascon of the University of Gottingen have developed an Android app capable […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 08, 2014
The student Andrew Aude discovered a still unreleased feature for payments of Facebook Messenger by using the iOS and Mac OS X hacking tool Cycript. Facebook is preparing to enter the world of mobile payments according to a recent report published by Techcrunch. The student at Stanford, Andrew Aude discovered a still unreleased feature of Facebook Messenger by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 01, 2014
The MacRumors forum reported a serious flaw in iOS 8’s ‘Reset All Settings’ Option which causes the deletion of iCloud Drive documents. The Fappening case has raised the question about the level of security offered by iCloud and other cloud storage services. Apple was criticized for the way its security experts managed the flaw in iCloud file […]
