Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2014
Israeli Security researchers discovered an Android security flaw to bypass active VPN configurations and intercept secure communications. A new alleged flaw in Android mobile could harm user’s privacy over VPN. Israeli security researchers from the Ben Gurion University (BGU), the same that discovered a few weeks ago a vulnerability in the Samsung Knox platform, have […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2014
At S4x14 Conference in Miami, a researcher at of ReVuln disclosed a buffer overflow zero-day flaw in HMI software produced by Malaysian company Ecava. During the S4x14 Conference in Miami, Luigi Auriemma of ReVuln disclosed a serious vulnerability in HMI software. The team of researchers at ReVuln discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the companyâs […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2014
Security researcher Daniel E. Wood discovered a vulnerability in the Starbucks official iOS app related to the insecure storage of user data. 10 million Starbucks customers who purchases drinks and food using their Smartphones are exposed to serious risk of data breach. This is yet another story in which a poor implementation of minimum security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 16, 2014
Symantec published in the report titled “Targeted Attacks Against the Energy Sector” to describe the security landscape for companies of the sector. Companies and industries belonging in the energy sector are waiting most targeted sectors on a global scale, Symantec has issued a very interesting report titled “Targeted Attacks Against the Energy Sector” that provide […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 15, 2014
Kaspersky experts discovered a java version of icefog espionage campaign that targeted at least 3 us oil, gas companies spreading a backdoor dubbed Javafog. Kaspersky Lab in September 2013 announced to have discovered Icefog team, an emerging group of cyber-mercenaries available for hire to conduct surgical hit and run operations against strategic targets. The cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2014
Internet of Things, a business growing at a compound annual rate of 7,9%, which are the principal cyber threats to the popular paradigm? Another week is starting and this morning the topic that I’ve found everywhere is Internet of Things (IoT), it is a growing paradigm that will influence our life in the next future, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2014
A default setting in Asus Routers allows an attacker to remotely access data archived on a USB media storage connected to the devices. Swedish users reported an alleged vulnerability in Asus Routers that allows an attacker to remotely access data archived on a USB media storage directly connected to the devices. Asus and many routers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 13, 2014
Cisco confirmed the presence of a Backdoor that affects small business devices. The flaw was discovered by the French hacker Eloi Vanderbeken weeks ago. Cisco has recently disclosed (Advisory ID: cisco-sa-20140110-sbd) the presence of a backdoor in different small business networking devices, it is an undocumented Test Interface that could be exploited by attackers to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 11, 2014
The giant US retailer Target announces that the extent of the credit-card leak was even bigger, further 70 million customers are victims of the data breach. We all remember the holiday attack against the US giant retail Target, a data breach that exposed millions of customers’ data. The attackers accessed to names, mailing addresses, phone […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 10, 2014
IT administrator at Monju Nuclear Power Plant discovered that a malware-based attack infected a system in the reactor control room. On January 2nd one of the eight computers in the control room at Monju Nuclear Power Plant was compromised. An IT administrator has discovered that the system in the reactor control room had been accessed over […]
