Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2014
UAE wants terminate a contract with French companies for the supply of two Falcon Eye spy satellites due the presence of security compromising components. United Arab Emirates could cancel a contract with Frence for the supply of two intelligence satellites due the discovery of what was described as “security compromising components.” The UAE claims it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 04, 2014
The French hacker Eloi Vanderbeken discovered the presence of a backdoor in principal models of routers including Netgear, Linksys and Cisco. The presence of a backdoor in the commercial routers it is no more a surprise, we found flawed firmware in the popular D-Link in the past and now it seem that a similar problem […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 03, 2013
D-Link company has recently released a new version of firmware to fix backdoor vulnerability in various network device models. Last October the security expert Craig Heffner discovered a backdoor inside different D-Link routers. Craig published an interesting blog post on “/dev/ttyS0″ on the reverse engineering of the backdoor (CVE-2013-6027) present in many D-Link devices, it described how […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2013
Craig Heffner has discovered a new backdoor in the Wireless Routers produced by China based networking device and equipment manufacturer Tenda Technology. Just a week ago I wrote on a serious backdoor found by researcher Craig Heffner within the D-Link routers, today I’m here describing a new flaw discovered in the Wireless Routers produced by China […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 13, 2013
Researcher Craig published an interesting blog post on “/dev/ttyS0” on the reverse engineering of the backdoor present in many D-Link devices. Today I decided to propose an interesting backdoor analysis published on the blog “/dev/ttyS0” specialized on the embedded device hacking. The researcher Craig demonstrated the presence of a backdoor within some DLink routers that allows an attacker to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 20, 2013
A team of researchers developed an hardware trojan undetectable to most detection techniques raising the question on need of proper hardware qualification. A Team of researchers conducted a study on a stealthy Dopant-Level Hardware Trojans, an insidious menace that could have a dramatic impact on production processed of chips in every sector. The team composed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2013
Linux Torvalds during last LinixCon admitted to have received pressure from US Intelligence to insert a backdoor into Linux. Linux Torvalds during a question-and-answer session at the LinuxCon publicly admitted that the US Government requested him to insert a backdoor into Linux kernel. The circumstance must induce a reflection in all those experts that believe open […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 09, 2013
Researchers at Arbor Networks discovered a botnet called Fort Disco that was used to compromise more than 6000 websites based on popular CMSs. A botnet called Fort Disco was used to compromised more than 6000 websites based on popular content management systems such as Joomla, WordPress and Datalife Engine. The Fort Disco botnet is currently made […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 29, 2013
Spy agencies reportedly have a long-standing ban on Lenovo PCs due to backdoor vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to remotely access to the computers. Spy agencies reportedly have a long-standing ban on Lenovo PCs due to backdoor vulnerabilities. Lenovo PC banned by spy agencies in the UK, Australia and the US due the possible impairment […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 17, 2013
Trend Micro uncovered targeted attack against European and Asian government agencies to steal login credentials from IE and Microsoft Outlook products. A new targeted attack has been uncovered by Trend Micro security experts, the hackers hit European government agencies trying to steal login credentials from Internet Explorer (IE) and Microsoft Outlook. The attackers trying to […]
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