Security

Pierluigi Paganini February 02, 2014
Why Facebook Android App needs to read user SMS and MMS?

The last update for the Facebook Android app reads user’s text messages, is it an abuse of privilege or what else? Here you are the truth … maybe A recent update for Facebook Android raised a great concern for user’s privacy because it can read text messages on the smartphone. The climate of suspicion after the […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 01, 2014
CDM Jan 2014 is out for free – Welcome 2014: The Year of Mobile Spying and Privacy Concerns

Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM) CYBER WARNINGS JANUARY 2014 EDITION is available for free. Yes, 2014 is here and we’re surrounded by more and more personally identifiable information (PII) theft, as predicted. Keep an eye on these at http://www.privacyrights.org and find out that we all have common  vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) which are searchable here at the National Vulnerability Database […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 01, 2014
Tor-based ChewBacca botnet is infecting POS stealing Credit Card data

Researchers at RSA discovered a new variant of Tor-based malware ‘ChewBacca’, is able to infect Point-of-Sale stealing Credit Card data. The recent data breaches at US retailers Target, Neiman Marcus and Michaels have raised the alert level of malware-based attacks against POS systems. More than one hundred million Americans is victims of scams that mainly used a malware known as BlackPOS or […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 31, 2014
Lack of auth in 3G/4G USB modems exposes control panels to hackers

Andreas Lindh has discovered serious vulnerabilities in an unknown number of 3G/4G USB modems that can be exploited by attackers for spear phishing attacks.  The researcher Andreas Lindh has discovered serious vulnerabilities in an unknown number of 3G and 4G USB modems that can be exploited by attackers to steal user’s credential. The expert has found a Cross Site […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 30, 2014
Exploring the Telephony Denial of Service (TDoS) Q&A

Interviewed with Mark Collier, CTO and VP of Engineering at Securelogix to better understand the topic of Telephony Denial of Service (TDoS). I briefly interviewed Mark Collier, CTO and VP of Engineering at SecureLogix (Www.securelogix.com) on the topic of Telephony Denial of Service (TDoS). Mark just completed the Hacking Exposed: UC and VoIP book, which covers […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2014
Time for a Cybersecurity Overhaul

A post on cybersecurity written by Larry Karisny, director of ProjectSafety.org,a cybersecurity expert,advisor,consultant, writer and industry speaker. Most of the recent attention on cybersecurity has been directed toward the disclosure of NSA activities and recent corporate breaches now reaching record-breaking levels. Both the public and private sectors are beginning to witness how devastating cyber breaches […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2014
Snowden revealed the NSA is involved in industrial espionage

Edward Snowden revealed to the German public broadcaster ARD TV that the NSA is involved in industrial espionage against foreign governments and businesses. The former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed that the National Security Agency is responsible of  industrial espionage, for year governments are blaming China for cyber espionage and now the popular whistleblower presented an uncomfortable truth to […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2014
Discovered a serious vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird

A serious vulnerability inside Mozilla Thunderbird Gecko engine allows hackers to insert malicious code into Emails to exploit recipient browser. A critical vulnerability affects the email client Mozilla Thunderbird 17.0.6, the popular application has a validation and filter bypass vulnerability that could be exploited by hackers to bypass the filter that prevents HTML tags from being used in […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2014
FBI seized Tormail database, it has the access to all users emails

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seized the database of Tormail service for its investigation on cybercrime and illegal online hacking. Do you have used the Tormail Email service to protect your privacy? Are you searching for anonymity online? Well, the revelation regarding Tor Stinks project and many recent news on the spying activity discovered on Tor Traffic made […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2014
Arts and crafts retailer Michaels Stores Inc warns over credit card fraud

Michaels Stores Inc., US-based arts-and-crafts retailer, confirmed it is investigating a possible data breach affecting customer cards. Michaels Stores Inc., US-based arts-and-crafts retailer maybe is the last victim of a massive data breach, a few weeks after the hack of US retailer Target and Neiman Marcus. Michaels Stores Inc has more than 1,250 stores across the United […]