Security

Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2016
CVE-2016-4010 – Watch out a critical bug can fully compromise your Magento shop

The vulnerability CVE-2016-4010 allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute PHP code at the vulnerable Magento server and fully compromise the shop. The Israeli security expert Nethanel Rubin (@na7irub) has reported a critical flaw (CVE-2016-4010) in the eBay Magento e-commerce platform that could be exploited by hackers to completely compromise shops online. The vulnerability rated 9.8/10 has been […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2016
Watson Is Getting Ready from IBM to Deal with Hackers

IBM has targeted hackers, bringing Watson (its computer brain) in the game, with the help of eight prominent US universities IBM’s computer brain, or else Watson, has been known to multitask, already involved in fighting cancer and cooking and so many other things. Right now, the focus of IBM has been placed towards dealing with […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2016
Bank Hack – How to steal $25 Billion with a few lines of code

A security expert discovered security flaws that could let anyone to steal as much as $25 Billion from one of the biggest Indian banks. The security researcher Sathya Prakash discovered that the critical vulnerabilities reside in the mobile banking application used by the bank customers. Prakash explained that the exploitation of the flaw allowed him to steal […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2016
A bug in the Symantec Antivirus Engine allows remote memory exploitation

The white hat hacker Tavis Ormandy has discovered a critical exploitable memory overflow bug in the core Symantec Antivirus Engine The popular white hat hacker Tavis Ormandy from the Google Project Zero has discovered a critical exploitable flaw (CVE-2016-2208) in the Symantec antivirus system. The expert discovered an exploitable memory overflow vulnerability in the core […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2016
Also the Giant Google has recently faced a data breach via benefits provider

Google started sending out notifications to employees about a data breach that occurred at a third party company that operates as a benefits provider. We all make mistakes, sometime they are small, some other big. But what if the mistake is so important to indirectly affect one the biggest companies in the world? “Oooops!”  This […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2016
A hacker compromised several Reddit accounts to prove it needs 2FA

A mysterious hacker is responsible for a mass Reddit defacement of 70 subreddits, he wants to demonstrate the lack of security of the popular platform. Someone is creating the panic on Reddits, a mysterious user behind the name TehBVM (@TehBVM) claims to have already popped more than 100 Reddit subreddits. The user already targeted subreddits related […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2016
VIDEO – RedTeam Hackers Crack Businesses’ Security

A few days ago group of white hat hackers from RedTeam traveled to the Midwest to test the systems of a major power company and breach it with Social Engineering. RedTeam Security is a group of ethical hackers who specialize in offensive security, believing that the best defense is a good offense. We wrote about […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 13, 2016
Police admits it disguised a surveillance SUV as Google Streetview Vehicle

The Philadelphia Police Department admitted they disguised a surveillance SUV equipped with a powerful ALPR as a Google Streetview vehicle. The Philadelphia Police Department has used a track for surveillance activity by disguising it as Google Streetview vehicle. “An SUV tucked away in the shadows of the Philadelphia Convention Center’s tunnel bears the ubiquitous logo for […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 12, 2016
Flawed 7-Zip compression tool opens systems to hack.Update it now!

Recently security experts at Cisco Talos have discovered multiple exploitable vulnerabilities in 7-Zip that open users to cyber attacks. According to the Cisco security researcher Jaeson Schultz, multiple flaws in the 7-Zip compression tool could be exploited by hackers to gain the complete control on the target machine running the popular software. “Recently Cisco Talos has […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 12, 2016
Covert Communication Techniques Used By Next Gen High Tech Terrorists

With the advent of technology, terrorists have changed their strategies and converted themselves into high-tech & sophisticated groups. “While Osama Bin Laden had his fingers on the trigger, his children have their fingers on the mouse.” Intro Until now people have fought for food, water or territory, but today the definition and motivation of fighting […]