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Pierluigi Paganini April 26, 2015
Hacking telesurgery robots, a concrete risk

Security experts have conducted an experimental to analyze cyber security threats against teleoperated surgical robots in telesurgery. Technology will help humans to overwhelm any obstacle, one of them is the concept of space that for some activities could represent a serious problem. Let’s think for example to a life-saving surgery that could be performed by surgeons that […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 26, 2015
Dark Web Email Service SIGAINT hacked by the Intelligence

The Dark Web email service SIGAINT suffered a major attack that involved 70  exit nodes, a circumstance that suggests Government operation. Law enforcement and Intelligence agencies are always involved in the infiltration of Darknets and related services with the primary intent to monitor bad actors and de-anonymize users. The Tor-Based Dark Web Email Service SIGAINT is one […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 25, 2015
Point-of-Sale malware on the rise, the opinion of the expert

How many infected Point-of-Sale terminals are infected worldwide and how is evolving the cyber threat? Here you are the opinion of the expert. Security experts at IntelCrawler threat intelligence firm are among the team of researchers more active against Point-of-Sale (PoS) malware. IntelCrawler  The team conducted several investigations in the past and continuously monitor the evolution of […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 25, 2015
Someone in the BND was helping the NSA, it’s scandal!

According new revelations published by the Der Spiegel the German intelligence agency BND helped NSA in monitoring European politicians. We discussed several times of the aggressive cyber espionage campaigns run by the US intelligence and its allies of Five Eyes (Canada, UK, New Zeland, Australia and, of course, the US). The Intelligence targeted private companies and entities worldwide in order to establish a dominance in the cyberspace. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 25, 2015
Trains controlled by European Rail Traffic Management System could potentially be hacked

The European Rail Traffic Management System is a signalling system that will control all the Britain’s trains and it could potentially be hacked. By increasing the penetration level of the technology in our ordinary life, we are increasing our surface of attack. We have discussed many times about the risks for critical infrastructure, but threat […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 24, 2015
48,000 Windows XP PCs are still running at TEPCO … which are the risks?

Which is the impact of the Windows XP End of Life on the critical infrastructure? Recently a Government audit found 48,000 XP PCs still running at TEPCO. One year ago the end of life for Microsoft Windows XP raised a heated debate on security for all the infrastructure that still adopt the popular OS. Windows XP […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 24, 2015
Magento Flaw Exploited in the Wild a few hours after disclosure

Sucuri revealed that cyber criminals are attempting to hijack online shops based on Magento platform by exploiting a recently disclosed critical flaw. According to the security experts at Sucuri firm, within 24 hours after the disclosure of the vulnerability in Magento platform, bad actors are already attempting to hack e-commerce websites using it. The experts traced back the attacks […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 24, 2015
Ransomware creators are laundering their Bitcoin rapidly since the currency value is dropping

The drop in the value of the Bitcoin is pushing cyber criminals to rapidly cash-out their ears with ransomware in order to monetize their efforts. The business made by exploiting Ransomware has seen better days, all because the value of Bitcoin is dropping, that means, to avoid losing more money crooks are laundering money. “They( criminals) […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 24, 2015
SSL certificate parsing vulnerability could force iOS devices into endless reboot loop

Israeli security researchers have discovered a SSL certificate parsing vulnerability affecting iOS devices that could force them into endless reboot loop. Yair Amit and Adi Sharabani, security experts at the Israeli security firm Skycure have demonstrated at the RSA Conference 2015 the exploitation of a vulnerability that can force any Apple iPhone or iPad into a perpetual reboot loop. The experts explained […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 23, 2015
How to discover NSA Quantum Insert attacks on your systems

Security experts at Fox-IT have developed a method for detecting NSA Quantum Insert attacks and have published an interesting post on the hacking practice. Security researchers at Fox-IT have developed a method for detecting NSA hacking activity operated through the Quantum Insert-style hacks. The team of experts has published free open-source tools to detect duplicate […]