Security

Pierluigi Paganini August 27, 2013
China hit by DDoS attack. The Internet inaccessible for hours

China hit by DDoS attack. The CINIC confirmed that the country suffered a DDoS attack over the weekend causing the Internet inaccessibility for hours. During the weekend China’s Internet was taken down by a powerful DDoS attack, according to security experts behind the offensive there is a group of skilled hackers that on Sunday hit the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2013
The FBI claims to have neutralized Anonymous

The FBI claims to have neutralized Anonymous thanks the long series of arrests that hit principal cells of the collective such as LulzSec, Antisec and SABU. FBI in the last months has intensified the investigation on the Anonymous collective, various members of the popular group of hacktivist have been identified and arrested. Lulz Security (Lulzsec) team recognized its responsibility for the Sony Picture […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 25, 2013
Poison Ivy still alive, old malware new cyber threats – FireEye report

Security vendor FireEye has published a detailed analysis on the popular Poison Ivy RAT, releasing also a set of tools to analyze infections. Security firm FireEye published an interesting analysis on the popular malware Poison Ivy, a remote access trojan (RAT) used in RSA SecurID attack. Poison IVY was also used in the 2011 Nitro […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 24, 2013
Critical Pinterest Exploit threatens the privacy of millions of users

Security researcher Dan Melamed has found a serious Pinterest Exploit that exposed user’s information of over 70 Million accounts. The security researcher Dan Melamed has found a Critical Pinterest Exploit that compromised the privacy of over 70 Million Users, the flaw allows hackers to view the email address of any user on Pinterest. Pinterest is a very popular […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 23, 2013
Kaspersky – Unvalidated redirection flaw exploitable to serve malware

The cyber Security Analyst Consultant at Q-CERT Ebrahim Hegazy has found an “Unvalidated Redirection Vulnerability” in the website of the giant security solutions vendor “Kaspersky”. Ebrahim Hegazy (@Zigoo0) has found an “Unvalidated Redirection Vulnerability” in the website of the giant security solutions vendor “Kaspersky”. Ebrahim Hegazy is the cyber Security Analyst Consultant at Q-CERT who found a SQL […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 22, 2013
DDoS to hide attacks against wire payment switch systems

Fraudsters target wire payment switch at US banks to steal millions using DDoS to divert the attention on fraudulent transactions. Cybercriminals are targeting the wire payment switch instead to hit directly into the banking accounts of individuals and businesses, this appears to be the last trend observed for recent attacks against numerous US banks. The wire payment switch […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 21, 2013
A reading of the ENISA Annual Incident Reports 2012

ENISA issued the ENISA Annual Incident Reports 2012 on significant incidents in the electronic communications sector, which were reported to national regulators in 2012. ENISA published the ENISA Annual Incident Reports 2012, a document that provides an overview of the process and an aggregated analysis of the 79 incident reports of severe outages of electronic […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 18, 2013
USB Internet Modems vulnerability exposes Millions of PCs

The Indian security expert ‘Rahul Sasi’ found a USB Internet Modems vulnerability that could allow to gain Meterpreter shell or  full access to the victim just sending an SMS. The Indian Security expert ‘Rahul Sasi‘ announced to have found a USB Internet Modems vulnerability that could allow an attacker to execute malicious code remotely simply sending an SMS […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 18, 2013
The Hackers Conference 2013 – Hackers will Demonstrate Digital Dangers

This is the second edition of ‘The Hackers Conference’. Following the huge success of the conference last year the current edition of the conference brings back to you all the knowledge, all the fun in a better, grander way! The Conference will be held in New Delhi, on the 25 of August 2013, and will […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 16, 2013
Android malware uses Google Cloud Messaging Service as C&C Server

Security experts at Kaspersky have detected numerous Android malicious applications that uses Google Cloud Messaging Service as C&C. Android malware exploits the Google Cloud Messaging Service (GCM) as Command and Control server. The Google service allows Android app developers to send messages using JSON format to installed apps, but hackers exploited it for malicious purposes. The discovery has been made […]