Pierluigi Paganini
October 26, 2016
The firmware used by the Israeli mobile forensic firm Cellebrite was leaked online by one of its resellers, the McSira Professional Solutions. Do you know Cellebrite? It is an Israeli firm that designs digital forensics tools that are used by law enforcement and intelligence agencies to examine mobile devices in investigations. It became famous when […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 26, 2016
Joomla has released the new version Joomla 3.6.4 that fixes two critical account creation vulnerabilities affecting the popular CMS. Recently we discussed cyber attacks in the wild leveraging on compromised websites running Joomla CMS. For example, in February, security experts observed a spike in the number of compromised Joomla-base websites used in Admedia attacks. This week […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 25, 2016
Kaspersky Lab has launched a new global computer emergency response team (CERT), the Kaspersky Lab ICS-CERT, focusing on industrial control systems (ICS).. Kaspersky has anticipated launching an Industrial Control Systems CERT. Of course, I’m joking, anyway I always sustained that the creation of a similar structure represents an important achievement for the cyber security of any government. Kaspersky […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 24, 2016
Recently a massive DDoS attack has disconnected a large portion of users from the Internet, hackers exploited IoT devices. Is your router secure? “Are we ready to live in a world where all devices are exposed to cyber attacks?” That is how I opened my presentation in QurtubaCON16 – cyber security event at Córdoba City (Spain) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 19, 2016
The Government of Ecuador confirmed Tuesday it had cut off the internet access of Julian Assange due to US election leaks. The Government of Ecuador confirmed Tuesday it had cut the internet access of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is currently housed at its embassy in London, due to leaks of its Organization. The Ecuadorian […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2016
Banks and financial institution in the UK are reportedly failing to disclose the full extent security breaches they are experiencing. UK banks are reportedly failing to disclose the full extent of the number and nature of security incidents they are experiencing due to a fear of financial punishment and negative publicity. Banking execs and security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2016
“VeraCrypt is much safer after this audit, and the fixes applied to the software mean that the world is safer when using this software.” The security researcher Jean-Baptiste Bédrune from Quarkslab and the cryptographer Marion Videau have discovered a number of security vulnerabilities in the popular encryption platform VeraCrypt. A new audit of the disk-encryption […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 16, 2016
Sierra Wireless is warning its customers to change factory credentials of its AireLink gateway communications products due to Mirai attacks. Sierra Wireless is warning its customers to change factory credentials of its AireLink gateway communications product. The company is aware of a significant number of infections caused by the Mirai malware, a threat specifically designed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 14, 2016
Tor Project and Mozilla are working together to improve the security of Tor users and make harder for attackers to unmask them. Intelligence and law enforcement agencies continue to invest in order to de-anonymize Tor users. In the past, we received news about several techniques devised by various agencies to track Tor users, from the correlation attacks to the hack […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2016
A German nuclear plant suffered a disruptive cyber attack, the news was publicly confirmed by the IAEA Director Yukiya Amano. According to the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director Yukiya Amano, a nuclear power plant in Germany was hit by a “disruptive” cyber attack two to three […]
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