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Pierluigi Paganini
March 01, 2014
Vulnerability in Yahoo allowed Egyptian hacker to delete more than 1 million and half records from Yahoo database. Yahoo immediately fixed it. The Egyptian cyber security expert Ibrahim Raafat has discovered a serious flaw in the Yahoo! website. The hacker demonstrated on his blog how to exploit the “Insecure Direct Object Reference Vulnerability” vulnerability in the Yahoo! sub-domain (suggestions.yahoo.com) to delete all […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 01, 2014
Hold Security firm discovered more than 360 million newly stolen credentials and around 1.25 billion email addresses available for sale on the black market. The Hold Security firm has discovered a huge volume of data for sale on the online black market, it includes credentials from more than 360 million accounts and around 1.25 billion email addresses. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 28, 2014
The Guardian revealed that under the surveillance program Optic Nerve the GCHQ has intercepted webcam images from millions of Yahoo users around the world. A new collection of documents leaked by Edward Snowden has made public the program Optic Nerve, yet another surveillance operation operated by the intelligence agencies since 2008. The news was reported by The Guardian, Optic […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 28, 2014
Secunia’s Vulnerability Review 2014 provides an interesting analysis of the number of vulnerabilities in the Top 50 portfolio products. The Secunia Vulnerability Review provides a vision on global vulnerability trends, evaluating carefully the 50 most popular programs on private PCs. These programs are practically everywhere, in many cases, they are key application for ordinary IT […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2014
Researchers at FireEye have developed a POC that exploits an Apple vulnerability to implement a Background Monitoring on Non-Jailbroken iOS 7 Devices. A vulnerability in Apple products is once again the center of controversy because and also in this case the user’s privacy is at risk. The excellent team of security researchers at FireEye discovered another […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2014
A team of researchers created in the lab the Chameleon WiFi virus, a malware that infects entire WiFi networks replicating contagion of a common cold within humans. A group of security researchers at the University of Liverpool in Britain have provided a proof of concept to demonstrate how to infect an entire WiFi network one shot. The team of researchers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 26, 2014
Citizen Lab published detailed information on the surveillance network based on RCS spyware designed by the Italian firm Hacking Team. The nonprofit research team Citizen Lab has discovered the presence of a spyware developed by the Italian Hacking Team in 21 countries. The news doesn’t surprise security community, despite Hacking Team firm always denies any involvement in cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 26, 2014
YouTube users were targeted by a classic drive-by download attack by exploiting client Java software vulnerabilities and serving Caphaw Banking Trojan. What about using YouTube to spread malware? YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, view and share videos, it has great appeal to the users and represents one of the bastions of the Internet. The website was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 25, 2014
Enjoy the reading CDM for free.We are thrilled to join you at the RSA Conference 2014 with our Second Annual Edition of Cyber Defense Magazine. YOUR E-MAGAZINE HAS ARRIVED SPONSORED BY RSA CONFERENCE 2014 FLIPBOOK http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/annual-editions/february-2014/index.html PDF http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/annual-editions/february-2014/Cyber-Defense-Magazine-Annual-Edition-2014.pdf MOBILE http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/annual-editions/february-2014/mobile/index.html Introduction Following the tradition I am imagining the evolution of the cyber security scenario for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 25, 2014
Largest Bitcoin exchange MtGox shut down after it had announced to have suffered technical issues that forced the exchange to suspend withdrawals for a week. The world’s largest Bitcoin exchange MtGox has shut down its website, suspending any activities, the news is that to be frightening, a real earthquake that raises a series of reflections […]
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