Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini May 11, 2016
Facebook Capture The Flag is now open source. Learn to hack!

Facebook hopes to make security education easier for students with the release of its Capture the Flag platform to open source on GitHub! Are you interested in testing your hacking abilities? Facebook is offering a secure opportunity for you by opening it Capture The Flag (CTF) platform to test hacking skills in a legally safe environment […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 11, 2016
The ImageMagick flaw is being exploited in the wild

The recently discovered ImageMagick critical vulnerability (CVE-2016-3714) is being exploited in the wild for reconnaissance. The security researcher John Graham-Cumming from CloudFlare asserts that his firm recently discovered a critical vulnerability, code named CVE-2016-3714, in the popular image manipulation software, ImageMagick. The flaw could be exploited by hackers to take over websites running the widely used […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 11, 2016
Seoul blames North Korea for hacking a South Korean defense contractor

Is the North Korea behind the hack of a South Korean defense contractor? The officials announced an investigation into the security incident. There is a constant tension between South Korea and the North, now the Government of Seoul is accusing Pyongyang for a cyber attack that in April last hit a navy defence contractor, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 11, 2016
CVE-2016-4117 Adobe Flash Zero-Day is being exploited in the wild

CVE-2016-4117 is a zero-day vulnerability affecting the Adobe Flash Player that is being exploited to launch malware-based attacks in the wild. According to Adobe, a new zero-day vulnerability in the Flash Player software is being exploited in cyber attacks in the wild, and the worrisome new is that it will not be patched until May 12th. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 10, 2016
Euro 2016 – Experts already detected football-themed spam

The Euro 2016 will be held in June in France and online fraudsters already started launching football-themed spam campaigns on the event. <img height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=”” style=”display:none” src=”https://www.facebook.com/tr?ev=6037454831409&cd[value]=0.00&cd[currency]=RUB&noscript=1″ /> Major events such as the Euro 2016 represent a great opportunity for criminal organizations. In conjunction with international football tournaments such as the World Cup and […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 10, 2016
Hackers Crack Businesses’ Security Using Social Engineering

A group of white hat hackers from RedTeam traveled to the Midwest to test the systems of a major power company and breach it with Social Engineering. RedTeam Security is a group of ethical hackers who specialize in offensive security, believing that the best defense is a good offense. Engaging in social engineering, in addition […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 10, 2016
Researcher arrested and charged for hacking elections websites

The security expert David Levin was arrested and charged after discovering  serious security flaws on a couple of election websites in Florida. The security researcher David Levin, the owner of Vanguard Cybersecurity, was arrested and charged after discovering  serious security flaws on a couple of elections websites in Florida. In December Levin discovered that the elections website […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 09, 2016
The hidden information behind 12,000 PoC Exploits shared online

A study conducted by Recorded Future on PoC exploits shared online over the last year shows that social media is the main distribution channel. Security experts at the threat intelligence firm Recorded Future have conducted an interesting study on the proof-of-concept exploits shared online (e.g. On Twitter, on forum linking to personal blogs, GitHub, or Pastebin) last year. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 09, 2016
Hackers can break into a facility by spending $700 on Amazon or eBay

Hackers demonstrated to the Tech Insider how to break into any office by purchasing from Amazon and eBay $700 worth of electronic parts to clone access cards. Breaking into a company could be very easy and cheap for hackers, it could be sufficient to buy from Amazon and eBay $700 worth of parts. “We watched a […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 08, 2016
How terrorists abuse online services for propaganda?

Researchers at TrendMicro have analyzed online activities of terrorists identifying the techniques and tools used for their propaganda. Using vulnerabilities in software, websites, and web applications as attack vectors, hosting malicious components in cloud services. Other than this if there’s any service getting launched in the future, there will be always chances of abuse. Experts […]