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Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2015
Snowden doesn’t use iPhone for security reasons

The Snowden’s lawyer has recently declared that the popular whistleblower doesn’t use iPhone due to the alleged presence of a surveillance software. The whistleblower Eduard Snowden has completely changed our perception of Intelligence, the documents leaked by the Former NSA contractor have shown the technologies used by the US Government for mass Intelligence, the documents leaked […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2015
New Angler exploit kit includes a Flash zero-Day

The French security expert Kafeine has discovered an unpatched vulnerability (0day) in Flash Player is being exploited by Angler Exploit Kit. The Angler exploit kit is one of the most popular crimeware kit and according to the French security researcher Kafeine it was enriched with a fresh Adobe Flash zero-day vulnerability. Kafeine has discovered a new variant of the Angler […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2015
Ubuntu patched several security vulnerabilities

Ubuntu has released several patches for security vulnerabilities in different versions of the OS, including some CSRF, DoS and remote code execution flaws. Ubuntu has patched several security vulnerabilities that affect different OSs, some of them are affecting Thunderbird client included in Ubuntu release and could be exploited to remotely run arbitrary code. Thunderbird is a popular Mozilla […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2015
TURNIPSCHOOL – DIY NSA spying technology from the NSA Tao catalog

Researchers have presented the TURNIPSCHOOL project and other activities that replicate NSA surveillance implants with cheaper and off the shelf components. In December 2013, the popular cyber security expert Jacob Appelbaum, with the support of Der Spiegel news agency, disclosed the NSA’s catalog of surveillance. “Germany’s Der Spiegel has published another disturbing article on the NSA surveillance activities, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2015
PlugX RAT compromised official releases of popular games in Asia

Hacks in Taiwan security conference has uncovered a malware-based attack involving several online games to spread the PlugX RAT. Experts at Trend Micro have spotted a new malicious campaign based on the popular PlugX RAT, the threat actor behind the attack has bundled the malware with League of Legends (LoL) and Path of Exile (PoE) […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2015
GoDaddy fixed a CSRF flaw that allows Domain takeover

A security expert discovered a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) flaw to take over domains registered with GoDaddy, the company has already fixed it. The security engineer Dylan Saccomanni discovered a critical cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in GoDaddy domain management console that could be exploited by attackers to take over domains. The vulnerability was discovered on January 17 […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2015
Car hacking – Progressive Dongle exposes vehicles to attacks

A security researcher demonstrated that “car hacking” is reality through the exploitation of vulnerable Can Insurance Dongle. Million vehicles at risk. Car hacking is a reality, we have discussed the topic several times and we have learned that modern vehicles have a complex internal networking infrastructure that could be subject to cyber attacks. The news […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2015
Two flaws affect some version of the popular VLC media player

The VLC open-source media player is affected by two security vulnerabilities that can allow an attacker to run arbitrary code on vulnerable machines. Some versions of the popular VLC open-source media player are affected by two memory corruption vulnerabilities that could be exploited by an attacker to run arbitrary code on vulnerable machines. The couple of vulnerabilities was […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2015
Chinese Government runs a MITM attack against Microsoft Outlook

GreatFire revealed that the popular Microsoft Outlook emailing service was subjected to a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack in China. This time the popular Outlook email service was allegedly hacked by Chinese authorities. The Outlook email service was not reachable in China over the weekend and according the to experts at the GreatFire organization, Chinese Government run a man-in-the-middle […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 19, 2015
Snowden reveals that China stole plans for a new F-35 aircraft fighter

Snowden’s documents reveal China stole designs for the US-built F-35 Fighter jet, and provides details also a counter-intelligence operation run by the NSA. The documents leaked by Edward Snowden are a precious source of information, the last collection of confidential files have uncovered revealed a new large-scale industrial espionage campaign conducted by the Chinese Government. State-sponsored hackers have […]