Pierluigi Paganini
January 25, 2016
The victims of the infamous TeslaCrypt ransomware can now rejoice, there is a free tool to decrypt files encrypted by TeslaCrypt and TeslaCrypt 2.0 TeslaCrypt is one of the most insidious ransomware first detected in the wild in 2015, today I have a good news for its victims. TeslaCrypt was first detected in February 2015, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 24, 2016
Skype announced it will hide the user’s IP address, the new security feature is enabled by default in the latest update provided by the company. Skype now hides users’ IP addresses, a measure implemented to protect them against attacks from online trolls. Skype announced the security feature this week in a blog post, the feature is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 23, 2016
A review of all the products allowed Fortinet to discover the same SSH backdoor on some versions of its solutions. Recently security experts reported the presence of a SSHÂ backdoor in Fortinet firewalls, news of the day is that the company has found the same backdoor also in several new products, many of them running current […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 22, 2016
Facebook users are receiving malicious email delivering malware masquerading as audio message, a similar campaign also targeted WhatsApp users. Social media and instant messaging application are a privileged vector for cyber threats, in many cases bad actors exploited them to spread malicious links and infect a large number of users. Now a new campaign is targeting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 21, 2016
The Portuguese cyber security expert David Sopas has discovered a Reflected File Download (RFD) vulnerability affecting Google Finance. The researchers explained that different from other similar Reflected File Download he discovered in the past, this time, the attackers don’t need to create a page to force the download. “Found this vulnerability when auditing other client. With this RFD you don’t […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 20, 2016
SplashData has published its fifth annual report on most used passwords in 2015, including the list of the Worst passwords of the year. For the fifth time, experts from the SplashData security firm have published a report, titled “Worst Passwords of 2015”  that analyzes the use of passwords in 2015. The researchers compiled the annual report with data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 20, 2016
Federal security officials fear that attacks on fiber optic systems in the Bay Area may pose a threat to Super Bowl 50 A security memo issued by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security is warning of the dangers of a high-tech attack against crowds at the next Super Bowl 50. The event will be held in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2016
Security researchers at startup Perception Point discovered a serious vulnerability (CVE-2016-0728) affecting the Linux kernel. A Linux kernel vulnerability, coded as CVE-2016-0728, affecting versions 3.8 and higher will be fixed today. According to researchers at startup Perception Point who discovered the vulnerability, the flaw affects the Linux Kernel since 2012. The flaw has impacted more than tens […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2016
A new archive containing alleged voting records of millions of US citizens is available on a hidden service on the dark web. Joseph Fox from Motherboard discovered alleged voting records of millions of American citizens on a website in the dark web. The data were published on a website linked to a notorious cybercrime forum, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2016
National Security Agency says the US Govt surveillance programme for collecting domestic telephone records rmeets security standards The United States government’s updated spying program for gathering native people’ phone records has passed the muster as far as civil and privacy principles, the NSA (National Security Agency) claims. The new structure, which was executed in November […]
