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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 […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 31, 2014

Symantec alerts on surge in Phishing for Apple ID

Symantec has released a security advisory on the increment of phishing activities for Apple ID login credentials. The Symantec security firm has published an interesting blog post to warn Apple Mobile users on the increment of phishing campaigns to steal Apple ID credentials. Cybercriminals are adopting new techniques to trick users into disclose their personal information […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2014

Extortion scheme based on ransom request hit Australian Apple Users

Cybercriminals have targeted a large number of Apple’s iCloud users with a sophisticated extortion scheme based on ransom request in Australia. The 2013 is considered the year of ransomware, the number of infections related to this kind of threat has reached levels never seen before. Cryptolocker is without doubts the most popular malware of this type, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 07, 2014

Disclosed emails reveal assiduous collaboration between Google and NSA

Al Jazeera obtained the emails exchanged between Google executives and former NSA director Alexander which suggest that Google is very close to NSA. The IT Giants Apple, Google and Microsoft always denied any involvement in the surveillance program despite Edward Snowden as produced different documents attesting to the inconvenient truth. Now a new event is shocking the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 02, 2014

Be aware, Apple iOS Data protection doesn’t protect email attachments

Security Researcher Andreas Kurtz noticed that email attachments within different iOS versions are not protected by Apple’s data protection mechanisms. Mobile platform security is becoming even more crucial due to the large number of applications daily used by billion of users, but we must be aware of security flaws that could also affect the mobile OS. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 19, 2014

Unflod Baby Panda, the Chinese malware hit jailbroken iphone

Unflod Baby Panda is the name of a new mobile malware which is targeting jailbroken versions of Apple iPhone. The threat seems to have China origin. The number of cyber threats against mobile users is in constant increase, on the other hand bad habits like the practice of jailbreak/root the devices and the lack of […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 16, 2014

Samsung Galaxy S5 fingerprint sensor hacked

SRLabs researchers have published a video POC on YouTube to demonstrate how it is easy to bypass the fingerprint sensor on Samsung Galaxy S5. SRLabs researchers have published a video Proof of Concept on YouTube to demonstrate that they were able to bypass the fingerprint authentication mechanism implemented by Samsung Galaxy S5. The researchers demonstrated to […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 22, 2014

New variant of Zorenium Bot can infect iOS devices

Security analysts at SenceCy which are monitoring the advancement of a new Zorenium Bot discovered that it is able to infect also iOS devices. Security analysts at SenceCy are monitoring the evolution for the Zorenium Bot, a new and unknown malware which has been advertised in the underground since January 2014. This is the third […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 20, 2014

Tor browser app in the Apple app store is fake

For more than two months is is present in the official App Store a fake version of the Tor Browser app. It’s full of adware and spyware. The Tor Browser is the most popular tool for anonymization of the user’s Internet experience, it’s use is literally exploded after the disclosure of numerous documents leaked by […]

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Hacked BigBoss, the biggest Cydia’s repository

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

Symantec alerts on surge in Phishing for Apple ID

Extortion scheme based on ransom request hit Australian Apple Users

Disclosed emails reveal assiduous collaboration between Google and NSA

Be aware, Apple iOS Data protection doesn’t protect email attachments

Unflod Baby Panda, the Chinese malware hit jailbroken iphone

Samsung Galaxy S5 fingerprint sensor hacked

New variant of Zorenium Bot can infect iOS devices

Tor browser app in the Apple app store is fake

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