Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini June 13, 2016
Singapore will isolate Government Computers from the Internet

The Government of Singapore will cut off civil servants’ work computers from the Internet in order to secure Government networks. The Singapore’s prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong confirmed this week that the Government would disconnect from the Internet government work stations within a year for security reasons. The measure was aimed at preventing cyber attacks that […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 13, 2016
Exclusive: Critical vulnerability found on Twitter?

The newfound critical vulnerability on Twitter seems to allow remote code execution! Which is the reason behind the recent Twitter security issues? The newfound critical vulnerability on Twitter seems to allow remote code execution! The last days we have seen some cases that have to do with Twitter’s security making us wonder if the famous […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 13, 2016
The NSA wants to exploit IoT devices for surveillance and sabotage

The NSA and other intelligence agencies are spending a significant effort in research for hacking IoT devices for both surveillance and sabotage. Intelligence agencies worldwide are looking with increasing interest to the Internet of Things paradigm, intelligent objects surround us and manage an impressive volume of data related to of existence. Thanks to the Internet of Things devices, we […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 12, 2016
How to bypass two-factor authentication with a text message

Is Two-factor authentication the solution for any kind of hacks? A text message could be used to take over your Google Account. Following the recent data breaches suffered by IT giants (e.g. MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter) security experts are inviting users to avoid sharing login credentials on multiple websites and to enable two-factor authentication (2FA) when it […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 11, 2016
Bolek Banking Trojan, a Carberp Successor is spreading in the wild

The Bolek banking Trojan is one of the successors of the notorious Carberp Trojan that targets both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows systems. When the source code of the Carberp Trojan was leaked online, numerous threat actors developed their own variants. This process allowed a significant evolution of the malware that increased its sophistication across the time. […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 11, 2016
More Fallout from the LinkedIn Breach in new Targeted Attacks on Banking

CERT-Bund released a warning that corporate executives may be being targeted with malicious emails using data from the LinkedIn data breach. The cascading effects of the 2012 LinkedIn breach are still being felt throughout the business world.  On Monday, CERT-Bund, Germany’s Computer Emergency Response Team for federal agencies, released a warning that corporate executives may […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 10, 2016
Twitter resets account login credentials for exposed accounts

Twitter investigated account login credentials recently offered for sale on the dark web, locked the accounts and reset their passwords. This week a Russian hacker offered for sale more than 32 million Twitter account credentials on the Dark Web. The alleged Russian hacker offered Twitter account credentials for 10 Bitcoins (over $5,800). In response to the […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 10, 2016
Necurs Botnet, one of the world’s largest malicious architecture has vanished

The Necurs Botnet, one of the world’s largest malicious architecture, used to spread the dreaded threats appears to have vanished since June 1. In the last months, we have read a lot of news regarding the activities on one of the largest botnet in the wild that was used by crooks to deliver the Dridex […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 10, 2016
European Union Websites plagued by SQL Injection Flaws

Experts have discovered several SQL injection vulnerabilities in the European Union Websites, the European Parliament and the European Commission sites The security experts Vulnerability Lab CEO Benjamin Kunz Mejri and Marco Onorati have discovered a number of SQL injection vulnerabilities in the websites of the European Parliament and the European Commission. The exploitation of the flaws in […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 10, 2016
Are you using EMC and VMware solutions? Watch out unauthorized accesses!

EMC Data Domain OS and VMware NSX and vRealize are affected by security issues that could be exploited to gain unauthorized access to data. Both EMC and VMware are affected by security issues that could allow unauthorized access to attackers. An information disclosure vulnerability in the EMC Data Domain OS could potentially be exploited by malicious users […]