Security

Pierluigi Paganini May 24, 2014
A new series of critical eBay vulnerabilities still menaces 145M users

Security experts have discovered three new critical eBay vulnerabilities, the privacy and data of more than 145 million users is still at risk. Just a few days after the disclosure of a major data breach at eBay, in the Internet is circulating the news of three new critical eBay vulnerabilities in the company website. eBay admitted […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 23, 2014
Sophisticated Google Drive Phishing Scam is becoming popular

Security experts at Symantec have discovered a new phishing scheme based on Google Drive that is being used by hackers to steal Google Account credentials Phishing scammers are exploring new technique to conduct illicit activities, in the recent weeks we have already discussed on the efficiency to use Google Docs and Google Drive  for phishing campaigns. Google Drive popularity […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2014
Microsoft hasn’t disclosed neither fixed a 4 months-old 0Day Internet Explorer 8 flaw

Zero Day Initiative website has disclosed a new zero-day Internet Explorer 8 vulnerability which was reported to Microsoft four months ago but not yet fixed Microsoft had kept hidden a critical Zero-Day vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8 since October 2013, this is the last disconcerting news that is circulating within the security community. Peter ‘corelanc0d3r’ Van […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2014
Outlook Android App stores emails in plain text on mobile

Researchers at Include Security discovered that the Outlook.com Android App leaves user email messages unprotected by default on the mobile SD cards. A Microsoft Outlook client app for the Android platform lacks of encryption for the storage of email messages on the device’s SD cards. The unique protection mechanism implemented for the Outlook app is a […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2014
Windows 8 banned by China for Government Computers

Chinese Authorities ban the use of Microsoft Windows 8 Operating System for Government Computers, the ban is not extended to private environment. The tension between US and China is increasing, both governments are accusing each other of cyber espionage and both are prohibiting the use of foreign products in the government environment. In the past US […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2014
How to hack PayPal Manager and manage your Payflow account

Mark Litchfield, Security expert at Securatary, has published a proof of concept on the way it is possible to hack PayPal Manager Admin Account. Mark Litchfield, security expert at Securatary has published an interesting post on PayPal Manager Admin Account Hijack, let’s remember that PayPal Manager is used to manage user’s Payflow account. The attack method against […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 13, 2014
Who and how is using forged SSL certificates worldwide?

Who is abusing of forged SSL certificates in MITM attacks worldwide? A team of researchers implemented a new detection technique to detect the abuses. A team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and engineers at Facebook have designed a detection technique for man-in-the-middle attacks over SSL on a large-scale. They analyzed the data extracting useful information, including the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 12, 2014
Multiple Security Misconfiguration in Juniper Online Service’s Lead to Expose Sensitive data

Security researcher Mohammed Saeed has Identified Multiple Security Misconfiguration in Juniper Online Service’s Lead to Expose Sensitive data and much more. Security researcher Mohammed Osman Saeed has Identified Multiple Security Misconfiguration in Juniper Online Service’s Lead to Expose Sensitive data & Lead to Control four Juniper Load-Balancer been accessed From Remote. He also disclosed Multiple XSS in […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 12, 2014
Check Point Security Report 2014 – Malware in the enterprise

Check Point 2014 Security Report shows major security events occurred in 2013 show and provides useful information on current malware trends. Check Point Software Technologies published 2014 Security Report to highlight major security events occurred last year and show current malware trends. The data were collected monitoring network traffic from 996 organizations of various industries. Nearly 84 percent […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 11, 2014
AirChat project supported by Anonymous to secure communications

Entities claiming to be part of Anonymous collective are working to put together a secure communications project named Airchat based on ham-radio Fldigi modem controller. Entities claiming Anonymous affiliation are supporting the AirChat project, available for consultation on the Github, for the design of  a secure communication based on the open source ham-radio Fldigi modem controller. “We traded bandwidth for freedom, or […]