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Pierluigi Paganini September 21, 2014

The Fappening Continues, Nudes of celebrities on line again

Another cache of nude photos and videos of celebrities was disclosed online, investigators believe that this wave is linked to the first Fappening archive. During the last weeks media have focused their attention on the celebrity iCloud hacking case, hundreds of naked pictures are available online raising the interest to the level of security offered by cloud […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 20, 2014

IT giants Google and Apple enable encryption by default

Google has announced that its new Android L will encrypt users’ data by default, the rise of the User Controlled Encryption paradigm. Google decided to make a further step to improve security of its customers enabling data encryption by default in the next version of Android OS. According to a Google spokesman, encryption on Android devices is already […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2014

Tim Cook announced security improvements for Apple solutions

Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that the company will improve the security of its solutions, including iCloud, starting from extension of 2FA mechanisms. The recent disclosure of hundreds celebrity pictures has raised the discussion on the level of security offered by the Apple iCloud stored service. To improve the security offered by the iCloud service, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 07, 2014

EPPB tool copies usable to download victims’ data from iCloud backups

Copies of the Elcomsoft EPPB tool are circulating in the underground and could have been used in the recent leak of celebrity photos. Recently naked pictures of celebrities have been leaked online, but security experts were particularly interested to the news because they speculate that the images have been stolen from the Apple iCloud service. […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 06, 2014

APT ported XSLCmd Backdoor on OS X according to FireEye

Security Experts at FireEye Lab discovered a new variant of the XSLCmd backdoor that has been used in targeted attacks infecting Mac OX based systems. Experts at FireEye Labs have discovered a previously unknown variant of the APT backdoor XSLCmd, OSX.XSLCmd, which is used by a group of hackers known for past cyber espionage activities against the U.S. […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 02, 2014

Alleged iCloud flaw exploited in Naked celebrity hack

Investigation on celebrities naked pictures leaked online raises suspicion that hackers breached iCloud accounts exploiting a flaw in the “Find my IPhone” feature. An alleged hack of Apple’s iCloud accounts of many celebrities seems to be the cause of the leakage online hundreds of naked photos purportedly belonging to more than 100 actors and singers. On […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 14, 2014

AdThief malware infected jailbroken Apple devices

Malware expert Axelle Apvrille explained how the iOS AdThief malware infected more than 75000 jailbroken iOS devices hijacking millions advertisements. More than 75,000 jailbroken iPhones have been infected by a Chinese malware which were used by cyber criminals to hijack nearly 22 million advertisements and steal revenue from developers on the iOS jailbreak community. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 22, 2014

Hidden services in iOS devices could allow users’ surveillance

Apple has worked hard to make iOS devices reasonably secure but hidden services could be exploited to steal every user’s data in a stealthy way. Have you tried to enumerate the functionalities and services in your Apple iOS? You’d be surprised to find that numerous hidden features and services are not documented, some of them […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 21, 2014

Hacked BigBoss, the biggest Cydia’s repository

The BigBoss app repository, the default package store for Cydia application, has been hacked by a group of hackers which named itself “Kim Jong-Cracks”. The BigBoss repository, one of the biggest and most popular repositories for jailbreak tweaks in Cydia, has suffered a major data breach. Cydia is an application very popular within the community of iOS Apple […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 12, 2014

Gmail App for iOS vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle Attacks

Security experts at Lacoon discovered a vulnerability in the Gmail iOS app which enables a bad actor to perform a Man-in-the-Middle. Google Gmail application for iOS is exposed to risks of Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks which allow bad actors to monitor encrypted email communications. An expert at mobile security firm Lacoon has discovered that version of Gmail […]

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The Fappening Continues, Nudes of celebrities on line again

IT giants Google and Apple enable encryption by default

Tim Cook announced security improvements for Apple solutions

EPPB tool copies usable to download victims’ data from iCloud backups

APT ported XSLCmd Backdoor on OS X according to FireEye

Alleged iCloud flaw exploited in Naked celebrity hack

AdThief malware infected jailbroken Apple devices

Hidden services in iOS devices could allow users’ surveillance

Hacked BigBoss, the biggest Cydia’s repository

Gmail App for iOS vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle Attacks

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