Security

Pierluigi Paganini March 11, 2016
SAP Download Manager flaw exposed user password

An attacker who manages to get access to a user’s configuration file for SAP Download Manager might be able to obtain the stored proxy password. Are you a SAP user? Do you use the SAP Download Manager that allows downloading of software packages and support notes? You urgently need to update it in order to fix […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 11, 2016
Adobe issues emergency out-of-band update for actively exploited 0Day

Adobe has released an emergency out-of-band update to fix a zero-day vulnerability that is being used in targeted attacks. It’s happened again, Adobe has Issued an emergency Out-of-Band update For Flash Zero-Day that is being exploited in targeted attacks. The unfortunate thing is that the Out-of-Band Patch For Flash Zero-Day comes just a couple of days after […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 10, 2016
Snowden FBI is lying, it can already unlock iPhone without Apple support

Snowden accuses the FBI of lying about his ability to unlock the iphone of the San Bernardino terrorist. “that’s horse sh*t.” he said. While the dispute between Apple and the FBI on the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone case continues, the popular NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden takes a position giving us his opinion, and it is not […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 10, 2016
Tracking users on the Tor Network through mouse movements

A security researcher has devised a new technique to track users by analyzing the mouse movements, even when surfing on the Tor network. While we surf on the Internet we leave an impressive amount of traces that could be used to track our profile and also reveal our identity even we are visiting resources in the darknet. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 09, 2016
Let’s Encrypt has already issued one Million certificates

The Electronic Frontier Foundation announced that the Let’s Encrypt Certificate Authority issued its millionth certificate. The open Certificate Authority (CA) Let’s Encrypt seems to be a success, the EFF is reaching its goals with the creation of this new certificate authority run by Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). IT giants like Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, Automattic and […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2016
International politics of the VPN regulation

How VPN (virtual private networks) are being utilized for stimulation, legislative issues, and correspondence in various nations. As information security guru Bruce Schneier and his Berkman Center for Internet and Society associates brought up in a report a week ago, there are currently around 865 encryption-related items accessible all around the globe. From voice encryption […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2016
How to bypass Apple Passcode in 9.1 and later

A number of bypass vulnerabilities still affect iOS devices and could be exploited by an attacker to bypass the passcode authorization screen. A number of bypass vulnerabilities still affect iOS devices and could be exploited by an attacker to bypass the passcode authorization screen on Apple mobile devices (iPhones and iPads) running iOS 9.0, 9.1, and […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 06, 2016
Operation Transparent Tribe targets Indian diplomats and military

ProofPoint uncovered a new cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation Transparent Tribe targeting Indian diplomatic and military entities. A new cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation Transparent Tribe is targeting diplomats and military personnel in India. The researchers at Proofpoint who have uncovered the hacking campaign confirmed that threat actors used a number of hacking techniques to hit the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 04, 2016
A day attack with DDoS booter cost $60 and can cause $720k in damage

According to a study conducted by the experts at Arbor’s ASERT Team a day attack with a DDoS booter cost $60 and can cause $720k in damage. We have discussed several times about the concept of cybercrime-as-a-service, today I’ll show you a case related the offer for rent of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks for less than US$60 per day. […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 04, 2016
Take note, next week update Adobe Reader and Acrobat to fix critical flaws

Adobe announced that it will release security updates next week to patch vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Reader products for Windows and Mac. Adobe has announced yesterday, March 8, that it will release security updates next week to patch vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Reader products for Windows and Mac. We are speaking about critical vulnerabilities that fortunately are currently […]