Pierluigi Paganini
December 28, 2015
The security expert Chris Vickery has discovered a misconfigured archive exposes the personal details of 191 million U.S. voters. A misconfigured database is the root cause of the exposure of around 191 Million voter records. The records include voters’ full names, unique voter IDs, unique voter IDs, date of births and phone numbers. The database […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 28, 2015
Experts at Symantec discovered that hackers quickly take advantage of CVE-2015-8562 remote code execution to compromise Joomla servers. Joomla recently patched the CVE-2015-8562 vulnerability that could be exploited by attackers for remote code execution. According to the security expert Daniel Cid from Sucuri, hundreds of attacks are now taking place. âWhat is very concerning is that this […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 28, 2015
Which are the main events observed in the darkweb during the 2015 and what to expect in the next 12 months? The DarkWeb is a set of publicly accessible content that are hosted on websites whose IP address is hidden, but to which anyone can access it as long as it knows the address. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 27, 2015
Two German security experts have exposed a number of serious flaws in credit card payment systems that put users at risk. The duo of German security experts, Karsten Nohl  and Fabian Braunlein, found a new vulnerability in payment terminals that could be exploited by hackers to steal money. Differently from past attacks, this time, the hackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 26, 2015
About the Zero knowledge proof and the ability to proof capability to attack or to defence implementing the cyber deterrence. Successful deterrence based on three aspects – Capability, Threatening message and Transmitting the message to the opponent. Therefore, One of the critical issues in cyber deterrence is the ability to proof your capability to attack […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 26, 2015
As a result of a configuration change a security issue allowed some Steam users to randomly see pages generated for other users for a period of less than an hour. Bad news for the popular community of Steam gamers, some of the users are facing serious security issues. Several users online reported to be able to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 25, 2015
The Phantom Squad started the attacks on the PlayStation Network and the EA (Electronic Arts) as announced a few days ago. Last year hackers belonging to the hacking group of the Lizard Squad tool down at Christmas the online networks of both Microsoft Xbox Live and PlayStation network (PSN) highlighting security issues affecting the services of Sony […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 25, 2015
Turkish systems are suffering a major cyber attack which is causing serious problems to organizations in the country. Is is an act of Information warfare? On  Thursday, the non-governmental organization Nic.tr that manages IP addresses assigned to Turkish websites (the “tr” domain) confirmed  that the Turkish Internet servers are suffering a powerful cyber attack that appeared […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 24, 2015
Security researchers from ESET uncovered the Roaming Tiger hacking campaign, bad actors in the wild are targeting Russian organizations. Roaming Tiger is the name of a cyber espionage campaign targeting high profile organizations in Russia and former Soviet Union countries, including Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. The Roaming Tiger campaign was discovered by experts at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 23, 2015
A man from the Bahamas has been charged after allegedly hacking into the email accounts belonging to 130 celebrities stealing personal information, movie scripts and sex tapes. According to the U.S. Attorneyâs Office for the Southern District of New York , Alonzo Knowles, aka âJeff Moxey,â is a 23-year-old man suspected to have hacked into the email […]
