Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini May 13, 2016
Talking with Azeem Aleem about the evolution of cyber threats

Azeem Aleem,  Director for the Advanced Cyber Defense Services Practice – EMEA at RSA, shares its vision on the evolution of threats in the next future. The last 14 months have highlighted that attacks domains are expanding. We have seen the trends with OPM data breach, to sensitive PII information leak at Anthem breach and […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 13, 2016
A Kernel backdoor affects gadgets shipped by a popular Chinese ARM maker

Processors manufactured by the  Chinese ARM maker Allwinner are affected by a kernel backdoor and are present is several models of low-cost devices. In the security community is circulating the news about the presence of a backdoor in the gadgets shipped by the popular Chinese ARM maker Allwinner.  Processors manufactured by the company are present […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 12, 2016
Flawed 7-Zip compression tool opens systems to hack.Update it now!

Recently security experts at Cisco Talos have discovered multiple exploitable vulnerabilities in 7-Zip that open users to cyber attacks. According to the Cisco security researcher Jaeson Schultz, multiple flaws in the 7-Zip compression tool could be exploited by hackers to gain the complete control on the target machine running the popular software. “Recently Cisco Talos has […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 12, 2016
Old flaw exposes SAP BUSINESS Applications across the world

Security experts collected evidence that up to 36 global organizations have been hacked via exploits against an old flaw in SAP Business Applications A five-year-old flaw in SAP software is threatening business worldwide, at least 36 global organizations have been hacked via exploits used to trigger a vulnerability in SAP Business Applications. The flaw resides on […]

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 […]