18963 results
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2014
Home Depot announced that data related to 56 million cards were stolen by cyber criminals. Home Depot, the US largest home improvement retailer, confirms breach impacted 56 million customers. On Thursday the company Home Depot released an update on the evolution of the investigation of the data breach suffered by the company. Home Depot data breach is larger than the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2014
ICS-CERT issued a security advisory for the existence of vulnerabilities in a variety of Schneider Electric StruxureWare SCADA Expert ClearSCADA versions. According to a recent advisory issued by the ICS-CERT (ICSA-14-259-01) several Electric’s StruxureWare SCADA Expert ClearSCADA are affected by different vulnerabilities. The independent researcher Aditya Sood has discovered a weak hashing algorithm and CSRF vulnerability in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 18, 2014
Adobe with a week of delay on the roadmap has released security updates to fix critical vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Reader PDF. Adobe has finally released critical security updates for its products Reader and Acrobat PDF software. The vulnerabilities fixed with these updates have been targeted by hackers in numerous cyber attacks worldwide. The security updates […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 18, 2014
A report issued by the Senate Armed Services Committee reveals alleged Chinese hackers conducted dozens of cyber attacks on US defense contractors. A study conducted by the Senate Armed Services Committee discovered that hackers gained access to the systems run by US defense contractors work for the US Transportation Command (TRANSCOM). The Senate study released […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 18, 2014
Using the proper surveillance systems available on the market it is easy and quick to track cellphone and the movements of targets everywhere on the globe. We recently discussed the decision of Wikileaks to publish copies of the criticized surveillance software FinFisher, highlighting the dangers for the militarization of the cyberspace and in particular for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2014
A serious flaw vulnerability has been discovered in the default browser on a large number of Android devices that allows to bypass the Same Origin Policy. A critical flaw has been discovered in the Web browser installed by default on the majority of Android mobile devices, it has been estimated that nearly 70 percent of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2014
WikiLeaks has published copies of the criticized FinFisher surveillance software, claiming that the malware is sold to the most “abusive” regimes in the world. Copies of the surveillance software “FinFisher” were made available for public scrutiny by WikiLeaks early this week. The international, online journalistic organization has decided to publish the public disclose the criticized software online to allow […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2014
An Egyptian security researcher has discovered a critical flaw in Twitter platform which allows an attacker to delete credit cards from Any Twitter Account. The Egyptian Security Researcher, Ahmed Mohamed Hassan Aboul-Ela has discovered a critical vulnerability in Twitter’s advertising service that allowed an attacker to delete credit cards from any Twitter account. Ahmed Mohamed Hassan Aboul-Ela […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2014
Experts at IBM Trusteer security firms have discovered a massively distributed Citadel trojan targets Middle Eastern Petrochemical companies. Researchers at IBM Trusteer have recently discovered targeted cyber attacks using a variant of the popular Citadel trojan on several Middle Eastern petrochemical companies. The Citadel Trojan is a malware designed to steal personal information, including banking and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2014
Trustwave has detected a new series of attacks on servers worldwide based on the exploitation of old CGI-PHP vulnerability to spread BoSSaBoTv2 botnet. It was 2012 when security experts discovered a security flaw (CVE-2012-1823) in some PHP builds that could be exploited by a threat actor to remotely execute commands on the affected server, if PHP was […]
