Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2016
Tor Project revealed how the organization has conducted a three-year long work to improve its ability to detect fraudulent software. The experts at the Tor Project are working to improve the resilience of the anonymizing network to cyber attacks, in particular, they aim to quickly detect any surveillance activity conducted by tempering the Tor system. The researchers fear […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2016
Google released an emergency security patch to fix the local elevation of privilege vulnerability CVE-2015-1805 affecting its OS. Google has released an emergency security patch to fix the local elevation of privilege vulnerability CVE-2015-1805 affecting the kernel of the Android OS of certain devices. The vulnerability is ranked as critical and can be exploited by rooting applications […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 21, 2016
Last week at the CeBIT the Lookout’s Co-Founder and CTO Kevin Mahaffey talked about hacking Tesla Model S providing indications on possible countermeasures. Last week at the CeBIT conference held in Hanover, the Lookout’s Co-Founder and CTO Kevin Mahaffey talked about hacking Tesla Model S providing indications on possible countermeasures. Unfortunately, many security professionals provided […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2016
The Ukranian power blackout has demonstrated the worrying effects of the SCADA hacking, other countries like UK fear similar attacks. All the warnings from security experts throughout the years have unfortunately been disregarded, when it comes to the hackers’ threats in strategical spots, such as that of power generation. As a result, hackers have acted […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2016
Chris Vickery has discovered online the database of the Kinoptic iOS app, which was abandoned by developers, with details of over 198,000 users. The security researcher Chris Vickery has discovered a database belonging to an abandoned iOS app, the Kinoptic iOS app, that is exposing on the Internet personal details of over 198,000 users. The Kinoptic iOS app allowed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 17, 2016
American Express is informing cardholders that their payment card data may have been exposed after a third-party service provider suffered a security breach. Another illustrious victim of a data breach is in the headlines, this time, American Express is warning Cardholders of a possible incident occurred to a third party service provider. The name of the affected service provider […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2016
Fujitsu has announced plans to launch its digital payment system PalmSecure Technology in Europe that is a security solution for biometric identification Fujitsu has announced plans to launch its digital payment system PalmSecure in Europe that is a security solution for biometric identification, which is offering the perfect user authentication for payment scenarios. It operates touchless, highly […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 14, 2016
The patch for the critical Java CVE-2013-5838 vulnerability released by Oracle in 2013 is ineffective and can be easily bypassed. Bad news for Java users, in 2013 Oracle released a patch to fix the CVE-2013-5838 vulnerability, but security experts discovered that it could be easily bypassed to compromise the latest versions of the software. This means […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 13, 2016
Cisco released a series of software updates to patch several high severity flaws in its cable modems, residential gateways and security appliances. Cisco just patched critical vulnerabilities in its cable modems, residential gateways and security appliances. The security updates released this week fix serious flaws in Cisco residential reported by Kyle Lovett, and Chris Watts from Tech […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 12, 2016
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is launching a new project dubbed Improv that aims to develop new techniques to hack into everyday technology. The IoT paradigm is enlarging as never before our surface of attack, it is obvious that cyber criminals and nation-state hackers are looking at it with an increasing interest. The US Military Defense […]
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