Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2015
The experts at the IT Department of the EU parliament bans the Microsoft mobile Outlook app due to the recently disclosed privacy and security issues. A few day ago I wrote about serious security issues for day ago I wrote about serious security issues for Microsoft mobile Outlook app, the researcher and Head of Development at midpoints […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2015
Security experts at Sophos spotted a new phishing campaign targeting iCloud users. The attackers are interested in the victims’ financial data. Sophos security firm reported that threat actors are running phishing campaign against Apple iCloud users to steal financial data. The messages sent by bad actors are tailored to appear as legitimate security alerts issued by Apple. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 23, 2015
Google ProjectZero disclosed the details of 3 new OS X zero-day vulnerabilities, but experts believe that they could be exploited by hackers to run attacks. If you thought the ProjectZero team worked only to find flaws in Microsoft systems you are mistaken, this time the excellence crew has discovered three more zero-day vulnerabilities affecting the Apple’s […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 07, 2015
The Carnegie Mellon University CERT/CC warned about the presence of serious vulnerabilities in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). The CERT/CC has issued three different advisories for security flaws identified in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) (pronounced as an initialism U-E-F-I or like “unify” without the n) is a specification that defines a software interface between an operating […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2015
Apple has patched the iCloud flaw exploited by iDict tool, the news was confirmed by the author of the hacking application via Twitter. Last week the iDict hacking tool has been released by a hacker known as Pr0x13, the expert posted the code of iDict on GitHub explaining that it is very easy to use and exploits a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 05, 2015
A security researcher has presented a technique dubbed Thunderstrike hack to infect Apple’s Mac PCs with with EFI Bootkit through the Thunderbolt port. Infect Apple Mac PCs exploiting the Thunderbolt port is possible, the security researcher Trammell Hudson has demonstrated how it is possible during the last edition of the annual Chaos Computer Congress in Hamburg, Germany. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2015
iDict is the a hacking tool that was published on GitHub and that can break into any iCloud account running an Apple ID Dictionary attack. A hacker has released a tool called iDict that he sustains that could be used to break into any iCloud account. According to the expert, iDict implements an exploit that is able […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2014
If you lose your recovery key with two-step verification Apple can’t help you.By forgetting Recovery Key could completely lock a person out of their account More that one year ago Apple has introduced the two-step verification system to implement a two-factor authentication process and improve security for Apple IDs. Since March 2013 Apple has progressively extended […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 11, 2014
Researchers at FireEye identified a new attack dubbed the Masque, which allows attackers to replace a genuine app with a malicious one. In these days Apple the community has discovered that is vulnerable to WireLurker, a new strain of malware that is able to infect Apple iPhone and iPad syphoning user’data. The malware was discovered for the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 09, 2014
Security Experts at Palo Alto Networks have discovered a new variant of malware dubbed WireLurker that is infecting Apple mobile devices. A new strain of malware dubbed WireLurker is threatening Apple users, the malicious code is able to infect Apple iPhone and iPad syphoning user’data. The malware was discovered for the first time by experts […]
