Pierluigi Paganini
September 01, 2014
The APWG Report Q2 2014 states that phishing activities continue to increase, phishers are targeting Crypto Currency, Payment Services and Retail Sites. The APWG has published its new report related to phishing activities in the period April – June 2014, the document titled “Phishing Activity Trends Report, 2nd Quarter 2014” states that online payment services […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 31, 2014
Dominique Bongard has presented an improvement to previous attack on WPS which allows to discover the PIN in just one second with offiline calculations. The researcher Dominique Bongard has presented an improvement for the attack on wireless routers with poorly implemented versions of the WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup). The WPS is a popular network security standard that allows […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 29, 2014
Mozilla Security Team announced a new accidental disclosure of email addresses and encrypted passwords of about 97,000 Bugzilla users. On Wednesday, officials at Bugzilla, the bug-tracking system managed by Mozilla, confirmed that email addresses and encrypted passwords belonging to 97,000 of their users had been disclosed. Bugzilla is a bug-tracking software system widely used by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 29, 2014
FBI and National Counterterrorism Center issued a memo to warn Government agencies on the risks related to Google Dorking on their websites. On July 7th, the FBI and the National Counterterrorism Center issued a memo to warn law enforcement and private security agencies about the practice of Google Dorking and its capabilities. The FBI warns the recipients […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 29, 2014
US law enforcement and private security firms are investigating on a series of cyber attacks which hit JPMorgan and other financial institutions. The FBI announced that the Bureau is investigating media reports of cyber attacks on US banks and financial firms, but law enforcement hasn’t provided further information on the incidents neither on the affected companies. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2014
Routers manufactured by Netcore and sold worldwide under Netis brand have a wide-open backdoor that can be fairly easily exploited by threat actors. Experts at TrendMicro discovered that routers manufactured by Chinese security vendor and sold under the brand name Netcore in China have a hard-coded password. The hard-coded password allows attackers to access user’s traffic with a backdoor, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2014
A group of hackers dubbed DERP has created a super tool to coordinate multi protocol DDoS reflection attacks as explained by Melbourne-based Micron21 firm. For the first time ever a hacking group coordinated a range of different DDoS reflection attacks against a data center of the firm Melbourne-based Micron21, the attack occurred on August 2nd. The experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 26, 2014
ICREACH is the codename for the NSA’s Secret Google-Like Search Engine for Metadata Analysis disclosed by a new collection of documents leaked by Snowden. ICREACH is the name of a Google-like search engine designed by the National Security Agency (NSA) that provides metadata related to individuals living in US to more than two dozen US government agencies. The Intercept […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 26, 2014
Authorities confirmed that 27 million individuals in South Korea suffered a data breach, nearly 70 percent of the population aged between 15 and 65 was hit. A new massive data breach hit more that 27 million people in South Korea, according to the authorities stolen data comes from the gaming industry. It isn’t the first time that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2014
FBI is warning businesses operating in the healthcare industry on possible cyber attacks. The FBI is alerting the healthcare industry companies on potential cyber attacks, the law enforcement are warning companies after the attack on U.S. hospital group Community Health Systems Inc that caused the theft of millions of patient records. “The FBI has observed malicious actors targeting healthcare related systems, […]
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