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Pierluigi Paganini August 23, 2013
Kaspersky – Unvalidated redirection flaw exploitable to serve malware

The cyber Security Analyst Consultant at Q-CERT Ebrahim Hegazy has found an “Unvalidated Redirection Vulnerability” in the website of the giant security solutions vendor “Kaspersky”. Ebrahim Hegazy (@Zigoo0) has found an “Unvalidated Redirection Vulnerability” in the website of the giant security solutions vendor “Kaspersky”. Ebrahim Hegazy is the cyber Security Analyst Consultant at Q-CERT who found a SQL […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 22, 2013
DDoS to hide attacks against wire payment switch systems

Fraudsters target wire payment switch at US banks to steal millions using DDoS to divert the attention on fraudulent transactions. Cybercriminals are targeting the wire payment switch instead to hit directly into the banking accounts of individuals and businesses, this appears to be the last trend observed for recent attacks against numerous US banks. The wire payment switch […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 21, 2013
A reading of the ENISA Annual Incident Reports 2012

ENISA issued the ENISA Annual Incident Reports 2012 on significant incidents in the electronic communications sector, which were reported to national regulators in 2012. ENISA published the ENISA Annual Incident Reports 2012, a document that provides an overview of the process and an aggregated analysis of the 79 incident reports of severe outages of electronic […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2013
Brain hacking, it’s time to protect our mind from hackers

Brain hacking is the act to read the content of the human brain and modify it, is the technology mature to allow hackers to penetrate our mind? Brain hacking refers the possibility to attack the human brain to extract sensitive information such as data and memories, including also the capability to inject new information. Exactly as any other […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2013
Short Password Reset code vulnerability allows hackers to brute-force many websites

Indian hacker reported a Short Password Reset code vulnerability that could allow attackers to brute-force many high profile websites not protected by CAPTCHA verification system. Yesterday we received a vulnerability report in web applications from some unknown Indian Hacker who explained that how Hackers are hijacking Mobile recharge and Free SMS service related websites. He […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2013
Cybercrime-as-a-Service, the rise of hacking services

Security expert Dancho Danchev profiled one of the numerous hacking services offered in the underground highlighting new trends in the cybercrime ecosystem. With the term attack-as-a-service model is indicated the practice to outsource all the phases of an attack to specialists instead to rent tools and architecture to conduct personally the illegal activities (Malware-as-a-Service). Danchev […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 18, 2013
USB Internet Modems vulnerability exposes Millions of PCs

The Indian security expert ‘Rahul Sasi’ found a USB Internet Modems vulnerability that could allow to gain Meterpreter shell or  full access to the victim just sending an SMS. The Indian Security expert ‘Rahul Sasi‘ announced to have found a USB Internet Modems vulnerability that could allow an attacker to execute malicious code remotely simply sending an SMS […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 16, 2013
Android malware uses Google Cloud Messaging Service as C&C Server

Security experts at Kaspersky have detected numerous Android malicious applications that uses Google Cloud Messaging Service as C&C. Android malware exploits the Google Cloud Messaging Service (GCM) as Command and Control server. The Google service allows Android app developers to send messages using JSON format to installed apps, but hackers exploited it for malicious purposes. The discovery has been made […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 15, 2013
Chinese hackers that hit NYT are evolving their techniques

FireEye security experts discovered a new series of cyber attacks conducted by Chinese hackers targeted the US media in 2012, the attackers have improved the malware used in previous campaign against the New York Times. A new series of cyber attacks conducted by Chinese hackers targeted the US media, it seems that the responsible is […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 14, 2013
The cyber capabilities of Iran can hit US

A study titled “Iran:How a Third Tier Cyber Power Can Still Threaten the United States” states that Iran has sufficient cyber capabilities to attack the US Iran has sufficient cyber capabilities to attack the US causing serious damages to the critical infrastructures of the country. The news doesn’t surprise the cybersecurity experts that know very […]