Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2016
Stealth Cell Tower, it is an antagonistic GSM base station concealed in an office printer that could be used for surveillance purposes. Are you angry with your boss or your colleagues? Do you want to spy on them? The engineer Julian Oliver has demonstrated how to do it with a tiny cellphone base station concealed in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2016
Experts from ERPScan revealed that a SAP flaw patched in September still impacts more than 900 SAP systems exposed to the Internet. An information disclosure vulnerability in SAP that was patched in September impacts more than 900 SAP systems that are exposed to the Internet. According to the expert Sergiu Popa from Quenta Solutions who reported the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 01, 2016
The British Government announces an active defence posture in response to nation-state cyber attacks, Chancellor warns UK will retaliate against attacks. Hacking back, or “active defence” as security experts prefer to call it, is becoming a high debated argument. While the number of cyber attacks continues to increase and attackers are using even more sophisticated techniques, many Governments […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 01, 2016
Google has disclosed a Windows zero-day vulnerability after 7-day deadline it gives vendors when the flaw is actively exploited in the wild by hackers. Google has once again publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability affecting current versions of Windows operating system  and Microsoft still hasn’t issued a patch. Yes, you’ve got it right! There is a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 01, 2016
Security researchers at CRITIFENCE cyber security labs publicly announced this morning (November 1, 2016) major cyber security vulnerabilities affecting one of the worldâs largest manufacturers of SCADA and Industrial Control Systems, Schneider Electric. Â The zero-day vulnerabilities dubbed PanelShock, found earlier this year by Eran Goldstein, CTO and Founder of CRITIFENCE, a leading Critical Infrastructure, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 31, 2016
The ShadowBrokers hacker group leaked a fresh dump containing a list of servers that were hacked by the NSA-linked group known as Equation Group. The notorious Shadow Brokers hacker group has posted a fresh dump containing a list of servers that were hacked by the NSA-linked group known as Equation Group. The hackers disclosed the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 31, 2016
The Chinese APT Lotus Blossom is trying to lure victims with fake invitations to Palo Alto Networksâ upcoming Cybersecurity Summit. The Chinese APT Lotus Blossom, also known as Elise and Esile, is behind a new cyber espionage campaign that is trying to lure victims with fake invitations to Palo Alto Networksâ upcoming Cybersecurity Summit. With this […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 31, 2016
Experts from the firm Sucuri observed a spike in the number of attacks in less than 24 hours after Joomla released patches for two critical flaws. On October 25, Joomla released the version 3.6.4 to fix two high severity vulnerabilities, CVE-2016-8870, and CVE-2016-8869. The first flaw, tracked as CVE-2016-8870, could be exploited by attackers to create user accounts even if […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 31, 2016
An 18-year-old man from Arizona, Meetkumar Hiteshbhai Desai, was arrested this week because he is suspected for the severe disruption of 911 service. A few weeks ago, a group of researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s Cyber-Security Research Center demonstrated how it is possible to significantly disrupt the US’ 911 emergency call system. An attacker […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 30, 2016
According to a study published by the independent anti-virus testing outfit AV-TEST, the number of malicious search engine results has been increasing. The vast majority of the Internet users blindly trust data provided in response to their queries to the search engines. Actually, search engine results are increasingly poisoned with malicious links, the experts noticed a […]
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