Pierluigi Paganini
June 15, 2016
In February Verticalscope platform was hacked and more than 45 Million passwords from  1,000 websites running on it have been leaked online. Data breaches, a never ending saga! Recently we reported a number of clamorous data breaches, hundred thousand million credentials were offered for sale in dark web. LinkedIn, mySpace, VKontakte, and Twitter are some of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 15, 2016
Adobe states that the Flash Player zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2016-4171) has been exploited in targeted attacks. It will be fixed later this week. Once again Adobe Flash Player is the target of hackers in the wild. Adobe has released security updates for several of its products announcing that the fix for a critical Flash Player zero-day vulnerability […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2016
Hackers contracted by the DoD under the Hack the Pentagon initiative have found more than 100 vulnerabilities exceeding Government’s expectations. Do you remember the ‘Hack the Pentagon‘ initiative? ‘Hack the Pentagon’ is the initiative launched by the US Government this year to test the resilience to cyber attacks of the US defenses. The Pentagon has launched the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2016
Security researchers have found a vulnerability that could allow attackers to send massive messages on Telegram bypassing its limitations. Security researchers have devised a method to send massive messages on Telegram. The experts have found a flaw that allows them so send messages of any size as showed in the proof-of-concept provided by the researchers. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2016
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
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 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
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
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
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 […]
Uncategorized / November 10, 2025
Hacking / November 10, 2025
