Pierluigi Paganini
September 30, 2014
Apple has just released its patch for the Shellshock vulnerability. The company provided an update for the OS X Lion, Mountain Lion and Mavericks. A few days ago the Internet community was shocked by the revelation on a new critical flaw, dubbed Bash Bug, which affects the Bash component in billion of Unix and Linus […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 27, 2014
A new collection of photos belonging to the Fappening archives have been leaked online, it includes nudes of Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities. The Fappening is now in its third episode and the celebrities are naked again. The Fappening seems to be never ending story, a new archive of nude celebrity photos has been leaked online. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 27, 2014
FBI Director James Comey said that he was “very concerned” about decision on Apple and Google to implement data encryption by default on their Smartphones. The FBI is concerned about the improvements made by Apple and Google for their solutions to defend the security and privacy of the users. The companies have implemented encryption by default on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 23, 2014
Users which haven’t upgraded their systems to the Apple iOS 8 could be victims of a new iOS 7.1 exploit targeting the CVE-2014-4377 vulnerability. Security experts at Binamuse firm have discovered the availability online of the exploit kit which targets the vulnerability coded CVE-2014-4377, a memory corruption issue in iOS’s core graphics library. The exploitation of CVE-2014-4377 could […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 21, 2014
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]
