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Pierluigi Paganini November 07, 2014
FBI arrested Blake “Defcon” Benthall and seized Silk Road 2.0

Silk Road 2.0 shut down by the FBI that arrested Blake “Defcon” Benthall, alleged operator of the underground black market specialized in the sale of drugs. The FBI announced the arrest of Blake Benthall, also known as “Defcon,” the alleged owner and operator of black market Silk Road 2.0, Ars that is following the case […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 06, 2014
Facebook scams – Top 5 categories identified by a 2-year study

A two-year study conducted by researchers at Bitdefender analyzed more than 850000 Facebook scams identifying the most popular frauds. Experts at Bitdefender antivirus software provider have conducted a two-year study on the way crime exploit the popular social network Facebook, the analysis examines nearly 850,000 Facebook scams. The study on Facebook scams analyzed data from different […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 06, 2014
Operation Huyao, the scary evolution of phishing attacks

Security experts at TrendMicro have discovered a new Phishing technique dubbed Operation Huyao that it very hard to detect by site owners and end-users. Security experts have uncovered a new phishing technique, dubbed Operation Huyao, targeting online shopping websites and that is considered by researchers a significantly change to the threat landscape for phishing activities. In a classic […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 06, 2014
ROM is the new improved strain of the Backoff PoS Malware

Security experts at Fortinet detected a new variant of Backoff malicious code dubbed ROM, which is an improved version of the popular POS malware. A new strain of the Backoff point of sale malware has been detected in the wild by security experts at Fortinet, the new variant dubbed ROM (W32/Backoff.B!tr.spy) appears more fine-tuned. Like Backoff, ROM […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 05, 2014
Are Contactless Visa Cards exposed to risk of theft for 1M?

Researchers at the Newcastle University discovered a flaw in contactless Visa cards that can be exploited to steal up to 1M from cardholders without the PIN. A group of researchers at Newcastle University in the UK has discovered a hole in Contactless Visa Cards that could be exploited by cyber criminals to steal $1M per Card without knowing their PIN. The contactless credit […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 05, 2014
Two Linksys routers running SMART Wi-Fi Firmware are still vulnerable to remote attacks

Two models of Linksys routers running SMART Wi-Fi Firmware remain vulnerable to a pair of vulnerabilities recently patched by the company. Linksys EA2700 and EA3500 are the two routers running Linksys SMART Wi-Fi firmware that are still affected by a couple of vulnerabilities recently patched in different models of the Belkin-owned networking gear. On October 31th, […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 04, 2014
uIP and lwIP DNS resolver exposed to cache poisoning attacks

The DNS resolver implemented in the open source TCP/IP stacks uIP and lwIP is vulnerable to cache poisoning, the flaw could be exploited to divert traffic to malicious websites. The security researcher Allen D. Householder has reported  a serious vulnerability related to the uIP and lwIP DNS resolver, according to the Vulnerability Note VU#210620 it is exposed to cache […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 04, 2014
China unveils laser defense system that could shoot down small drones in a few seconds

Chinese authorities unveil the development of a new highly accurate laser defense system that is able to shoot down small drones in a few seconds. The Chinese Government has completed the development of a new weapon that is able to hit and shoot down small drones and aircraft in a few seconds. The China has successfully tested a highly […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 04, 2014
Apple OS X Yosemite is affected by a serious vulnerability

A Swedish security expert has discovered a serious  privilege escalation vulnerability in last Apple operating system, the OS X Yosemite. A Sweden white-hat has found a serious security flaw in Apple Yosemite OS X that could be exploited by an attacker to take control of your PC. The Swedish hacker Emil Kvarnhammar at security firm Truesec discovered a privilege […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 03, 2014
A security audit reveals that TextSecure app is vulnerable to Unknown Key-Share Attack

A group of researcher that audited the popular TextSecure Private Messenger app discovered that it is vulnerable to Unknown Key-Share attacks. The documents disclosed by Eduard Snowden on surveillance activities has caused a spike in the demand of privacy tools and solutions like the TextSecure Private Messenger app that we sill discuss in this post. TextSecure is a […]