Carphone Warehouse has taken three days to disclose about a sophisticated attack that may have impacted more than 2.4 million customers. The British mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse has been hacked and nearly 2.4 million customers records could have been compromised. On 5 August 2015 the experts of the company discovered that the IT infrastructure […]
A group of researchers launched an aerial security scanning project relying on ZigBee-sniffing drone to map online Internet of Things. Drones are powerful machines and security experts are imagining day by day new usage scenarios. A group of security experts (Paul West Jauregui, Richard McPherson, Dallas Kaman, and Nishil Shaw, partnered with Chris Eyhorn) are […]
RollJam is a $30 device designed to exploit a design flaw in the protocol that determines how keys communicate with car and unlock the majority of car doors. The recent hacks of the Jeep Cherokee and the security patch issued by Tesla for its model S have raised the discussion on the car hacking. Now, security experts […]
Security experts from Trend Micro have set up a number of honeypot to study the cyber attacks on vulnerable gas tanks and worldwide. Security researchers at Trend Micro, Kyle Wilhoit and Stephen Hilt have discovered a number of cyber attacks attempting to hack and shut down gas tanks. The researchers have set up honeypots to study […]
Security experts from FireEye demonstrated that Hacking Team leveraged iOS vulnerability to install fake messaging apps implementing a Masque Attack. Another news related with the leak of the Hacking Team‘s hack, this time it was discovered that Hacking Team was capable of compromising IOS devices, even if they weren’t jailbroken. To accomplish this, Hacking Team […]
Tesla Motors Inc admitted to have sent an update to patch security vulnerabilities discovered by a couple of cyber security experts. Tesla Motors Inc has announced that it has distributed a software update to fix security vulnerabilities in the Tesla Model S sedan. According to the company an attacker by exploiting the flaw could take […]
Food and Drug Administration invited healthcare providers to stop using older drug infusion pumps made by Hospira due to the risk of cyber attacks. A few months ago security experts highlighted the risks related to the hacking of older drug infusion pumps, we discovered that certain versions of common drug infusion pumps are affected by numerous […]
A security researcher demonstrated how to hack a satellite tracking technology with a $1,000 device made of off the shelf components. Colby Moore, a security expert from security firm Synack, will present in a talk at the next Black Hat Conference how to hack satellite tracking technology by using a $1,000 device made of off […]
ESET issued a report on a cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation Potao that relied on the diffusion of a trojanized Russian language version of TrueCrypt. Despite TrueCrypt development was mysteriously interrupted last year, the popular open-source encryption tool still represents the ideal choice for individuals that need to encrypt their data. Recently ESET published an interesting report […]
While Microsoft is offering for free it new Windows 10 OS, security experts argue that the cost for user privacy is much higher. Microsoft Windows 10 is the new operating system of the IT giant, the newborn already reached more than 14 million downloads in just two days. The experts who have already analyzed Windows 10 […]