Pierluigi Paganini
June 30, 2015
The OPM announced that it has temporarily suspended its Electronic Questionnaires for Investigations Processing (e-QIP) system to fix a security flaw. According the results of a security audit conducted after the hack at the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) the systems of the US Department are affected by a serious vulnerability. The vulnerable system is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2015
On 16 and 17 June the Europol coordinated an international law enforcement operation against airline fraudsters at 140 airports across the world. On 16 and 17 June another joint operation conducted by law enforcement worldwide allowed the arrest of 130 individuals. The authorities operated at 140 airports in 49 countries on five continents, the investigators found the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 28, 2015
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. Password Recovery Scam – how to hack a Gmail account Signal amplification and brute-force attack for car thieves Electronic Frontier Foundation – WhatsApp ranked as the worst at protecting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2015
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating on the activities related to a FIN4 APT targeting executives at publicly traded firms. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched an investigation on the activities related to a hacking crew targeting executives at publicly traded firms. According to the Reuters, the SEC has contacted at least […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2015
Facebook developed an astonishing algorithm for facial recognition considered as the latest Artificial Intelligence step, it’s name is PIPER. Artificial Intelligence has been playing an important role to offer better and outstanding features in applications and a lot of computer giants and agencies have spent huge amount of money to acquire more and more. Facebook […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2015
Security experts at Kaspersky collected evidence that the Winniti APT is moving beyond the gaming industry targeting telecoms and big pharma companies. My most passionate readers, will remember for sure the Winnti group, a Chinese APT discovered by Kaspersky Lab in 2013 that targeted companies in the gaming industry. According to the experts, the Winnti gang has been active […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2015
Experts at Symantec observed a significant upsurge in activity over the past year for the Dyre financial Trojan used to target banking customers worldwide The operators behind the popular Dyre banking trojan appear very active in this period, according to security experts at Symantec they are working hard five-day a week to maintain some 285 command […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 24, 2015
The security researcher Patrick Barker discovered that Samsung is disabling Windows Update to run its own bloatware opening users to cyber attacks. The security researcher Patrick Barker discovered that Samsung is disabling Windows Update to run its own bloatware leaving is customers wide open to cyber attack. Barker discovered that Samsung disable Windows update after a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 24, 2015
Privacy advocates claim snooping component was activated within Chromium, potentially exposing private conversations. Privacy advocates are accusing Google. Privacy advocates and open source developers claim over the secret installing of Google software which is capable of listening in on conversations held in the surrounding environment. It seems that the listening component was involuntarily activated within […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 23, 2015
Adobe has released a security update for the critical Adobe Flash Player vulnerability CVE-2015-3113 that is being actively exploited in the wild. Security experts at FireEye discovered a critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability, coded CVE-2015-3113, that affects Adobe systems. FireEye discovered that the Adobe flaw is being exploited in the wild by the hacking crew […]
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