Pierluigi Paganini
February 07, 2015
A recent study published by RiskIQ security firm revealed that more than 11 percent of mobile banking apps includes harmful code. With the rapid spread of mobile banking services has increased significantly the number of cyber crimes targeting users of major financial institutions. According to an interesting research conducted by the company RiskIQ more than 11 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 07, 2015
Cybercriminals are offering worldwide a fake WhatsApp for Web in spam campaign with the intent to serve banking malware and run other kinds of scams. Recently WhatsApp launched its web service that could be used by using Google Chrome and allows users to access all the conversations and messages from the mobile device. “Our web client is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 06, 2015
The black box attacks are a new alarming trend in the criminal ecosystem, the experts Olga Kochetova and Alexey Osipov have provided a proof-of-concept. Cyber criminals can hack ATM systems and force them to dispense the cash by sending a command through a smartphone, in this attack scenario the mobile devices are used only to send […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 05, 2015
CYBERPOL Organization urges a joint effort between private firms and law enforcement to remove illegal and harmful content from the Internet. CYBERPOL, the International Cyber Security Organization ICSO, said that illegal and harmful content capable of affecting the physical, emotional and psychological well-being of all Internet users are increasing at alarming and disturbing rates. It […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 04, 2015
Security experts discovered a new severe XSS flaw affects fully patched Internet Explorer and exposes users to risks of attacks and identity theft. A new critical cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affects fully patched versions of Internet Explorer, the flaw could be exploited by hackers to steal user sensitive data (i.e. login credentials) and inject malicious […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2015
UNICRI published a study on the impact of the cybercrime on the economy in the Europen region with a specific focus on the effect suffered by enterprises. The UNICRI has recently published a study titled “Cybercrime and the risks for the economy and enterprises at the European Union and Italian level” that analyzed the impact of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2015
A security vulnerability in the BMW Connected Drive system allowed security experts to send remote unlocking instructions to the cars. Modern cars are complex systems composed of several components interconnected by internal networks, each system within these architectures is exposed to the risk of cyber attacks. Recently the German carmaker BMW has fixed a security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 31, 2015
PHP applications and WordPress CMS might be affected by the GHOST vulnerability that could be exploit to compromise the hosting servers. The critical GHOST vulnerability (CVE-2015-0235) in the GNU C library (glibc) may have a greater impact than imagined, security experts have discovered that PHP applications, including the popular WordPress Content Management System (CMS), could also […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 30, 2015
Mozilla products including the Firefox browser will stop trusting SSL certificates that were issued using old root CA certificates with 1024-bit RSA keys. Mozilla products including the popular Firefox browser will stop trusting SSL certificates that were issued using old root CA certificates with 1024-bit RSA keys. With this decision Mozilla wants to stress certificate authorities (CAs) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 29, 2015
Experts at Bitdefender have discovered a spam campaign that tricks antispam filters by relying on macros in Empty Word Documents. Security experts at BitDefender observed a new tactic adopted by spammers that rely on emails with an empty Word document in the attachment to bypass anti-spam filters. The social engineering strategy adopted by spammers to lure victims into […]
