Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2014
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
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 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
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
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
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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 06, 2014
This report provides a brief overview of some basic underground activities in the mobile space in China, describing products and services. Security firm Trend Micro issued an interesting report on Chinese cybercrime which is increasingly targeting mobile platforms thanks to a vast underground offer of services and tools. Trend Micro Mobile Cybercriminal Underground Market report analyzes […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 05, 2014
A serious flaw in the certificate verification process of GnuTLS exposes Linux distros, apps to attack. Another flaw exploitable for surveillance purposes. GnuTLS is an open source secure communications library implementing the SSL, TLS and DTLS protocols, it is used in hundreds of software packages including Red Hat desktop, all Debian and Ubuntu Linux distributions and many […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 04, 2014
Chris Soghoian, principal technologist with the American Civil Liberties Union, explained that government surveillance could exploit service update process. Chris Soghoian, principal technologist with the American Civil Liberties Union, during the recent TrustyCon conference highlighted the possibility that the government will exploit automated update services to serve malware and spy on users. Is this the next […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2014
Researchers at FireEye have developed a POC that exploits an Apple vulnerability to implement a Background Monitoring on Non-Jailbroken iOS 7 Devices. A vulnerability in Apple products is once again the center of controversy because and also in this case the user’s privacy is at risk. The excellent team of security researchers at FireEye discovered another […]
