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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 09, 2014
LinkedIn company filed a complaint in San Francisco against unknown hackers responsible for the creation of an impressive amount of fake profiles. LinkedIn is considered the social network of professionals, its scope is to give the possibility to the users to build their network of business relationship, sharing content of interest and exchanging opinion and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 09, 2014
Security researchers at IntelCrawler, a Los-Angeles based cyber intelligence company, discovered that VSAT terminals are opened for targeted cyber attacks. VSAT terminals (very-small-aperture terminal) used for satellite communications are vulnerable to external cyber attacks, the discovery was made by security researchers at IntelCrawler, a Los-Angeles based cyber intelligence company. The VSAT vulnerability appears serious and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 08, 2014
TrendLab malware analysts confirmed that recent Windows Zero-Day vulnerability was exploited in cyber attack against Embassies in a Middle Eastern capital. At the end of the last year Microsoft revealed that a zero-day vulnerability was in use in targeted attacks against Windows XP and Server 2003 systems. The discovery of the flaw in Microsoft OSs was made […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 08, 2014
A Pakistani hacker named ‘H4x0r HuSsY’ has successfully compromised the official Forum of the popular Linux OS openSUSE accessing to the database. A Pakistani hacker named ‘H4x0r HuSsY’ has successfully compromised the official Forum of the popular Linux OS openSUSE. The new shocking hack is shaking the IT security community, a few days after the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 07, 2014
The UK based Insurance company Staysure has suffered a massive data breach, stolen credit card data of more than 93,000 customers. The UK-based Insurance company Staysure has suffered a massive data breach, the company admitted that its servers were compromised and sensitive financial data of more than 93,000 customers have been stolen. This means that […]
