Pierluigi Paganini
May 03, 2014
Covert Redirect vulnerability is the security flaw in the open standards for authorization OAuth and OpenID that is menacing IT industry. Another security flaw in the open standards for authorization OAuth and OpenID is scaring IT industry. Just a few weeks after the disclosure of the Heartbleed vulnerability, another major flaw was discovered in the open […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 13, 2014
A Team of researchers discovered a critical XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability on Google server that allows an attacker to access any internal file. A group of researchers has discovered a critical vulnerability Google search engine that could allow an attacker to access the internal files of the production Google server. I desire to describe this […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 05, 2014
Two Israeli students at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology were able to cause traffic jams hacking the popular navigation app Waze for a school project. In many films we have seen bad hackers who were able to cause Traffic Jams causing death and destruction, this was possible because filmmakers are aware of the high penetration level […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 02, 2014
F-Secure has identified a malware dubbed Coremex that takes advantage of plugin functionality provided by browsers to hijack search engine results. Search engine are a strategic component in the successful execution of any attacks, we saw in the past Black SEO campaigns conducted with the primary intent to provide results that help the attackers to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 02, 2014
A security researcher reported to Tesla company a series of security issues related with S model that could be exploited to locate and unlock the vehicles. Hackers are able to remotely locate or unlock the Tesla Motors electric vehicles, the news is curious but it isn’t a novelty. Car hacking was largely discussed in the last […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 31, 2014
The Turkish Government ordered to Turk Telekom to hijack the IP address for popular free and open DNS providers such as Google’s 8.8.8.8. This is a sad moment for friends in Turkey, the Government is under the illusion that censoring the media will be able to suppress the thought of those who disagree. A few […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2014
Google has published its new Google Transparency Report related to the second semester of 2013, the number of requests for user information is still increasing. While the Internet users continue to claim their right to online privacy condemning the numerous surveillance program and the censorship conducted by governments all around the world, it seems that the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 21, 2014
Google has announced to have adopted encrypt mechanisms for all Gmail connections to reply to the increasing demand of privacy of Internet users. Google decided to encrypt all Gmail connections to reply to the increasing demand of privacy of Internet users, all the links between its data centers will be encrypted. The surveillance programs disclosed by documents leaked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2014
Google DNS public server was hijacked yesterday for 22 minutes, the victims were hijacked to the Latin America division of BT in Venezuela and Brazil. Google is undoubtedly the main targets for hackers, its services are accessed daily by billions of Internet users, a wide audience desirable for attackers. The last successfully attack against Google […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 25, 2014
Enjoy the reading CDM for free.We are thrilled to join you at the RSA Conference 2014 with our Second Annual Edition of Cyber Defense Magazine. YOUR E-MAGAZINE HAS ARRIVED SPONSORED BY RSA CONFERENCE 2014 FLIPBOOK http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/annual-editions/february-2014/index.html PDF http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/annual-editions/february-2014/Cyber-Defense-Magazine-Annual-Edition-2014.pdf MOBILE http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/annual-editions/february-2014/mobile/index.html Introduction Following the tradition I am imagining the evolution of the cyber security scenario for […]
APT / November 18, 2024
