Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini September 04, 2015
Some Uber ride data is publicly accessible through Google

Some Uber trip information is publicly accessible through simple Google queries, the set includes trip and user info, and home and work addresses. Rapid diffusion of technology makes easy phenomena of accidental data leakage, the last one is related to the popular car service Uber. Dozens of trips of Uber customers have been cached by […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2015
Critical OS X flaw could be exploited to steal data from Keychain

Security researchers at MalwareBytes have discovered a new variant of an adware installer that is leveraging an old trick to access the Keychain on MAC OS X In July, researchers at Malwarebytes have identified a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the Mac OS X operating system. The experts discovered that the flaw in OS X was […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2015
Company’s data at risk due to the use of mobile gambling apps

Veracode has conducted a research on the security of several mobile gambling apps and discovered a number of flaws that expose enterprises to serious risks. If you belong to a global corporation, the most probably think you will find out is that some of your colleagues have installed mobile apps that don’t belong to the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2015
Hacking Baby Monitors is dramatically easy

Security researchers from Rapid7 security firm discovered a number of security vulnerabilities affecting several Video Baby Monitors. Researchers find major security flaws in popular networked video baby monitor products that could allow attackers to snoop on babies and businesses. Rapid7 analyzed baby monitors from six vendors, ranging in price from $55 to $260 in order to […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 02, 2015
Shifu, a dangerous Banking Trojan is Attacking Japanese Banks

The Shifu Banking Trojan is a new sophisticated malware that has been used to target the customers of more than a dozen Japanese banks. Shifu is the name of a new banking trojan that has been around since at least April targeting Japanese banks and a number of European e-banking platforms. “Shifu currently targets 14 […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 02, 2015
Rocket kitten and Cyber Espionage – Targeting individuals for geopolitical purposes

ClearSky detected new activity from the Rocket kitten APT group against 550 targets, most of which are located in the Middle East. Cyber espionage nowadays plays an important role in politics, it helps governments to decide their “friends” as well their “enemies”, and the more dependent we are of technology the more Cyber espionage will […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 02, 2015
US weighs sanctioning China and Russia in response to recent cyber attacks

The Obama administration weighs sanctioning China and Russia in response to recent cyber attacks who have exposed sensitive data of the US Govt and US firms. The US Government is considering sanctions against both Russian and Chinese hackers in response to the hacking campaign targeting US entities. The news was reported by several U.S. officials yesterday who […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 01, 2015
Tango Down, NCA website offline after Lizard Squad attack

Alleged Lizard Squad hackers have DDoSed the website of the British NCA and have downed it after law enforcement arrested six teenagers clients of the group Hackers have coordinated a cyber attack against the website of the National Crime Agency (NCA) in revenge for the arrests of six teenagers that have used the DDoS tool […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 01, 2015
Dozens dating websites got breached by Russian hackers

A huge number of individuals are in danger because of massive attacks by Russian hackers, total 97 websites have been broken and most of them are dating sites. Security experts at Hold Security discovered that a significant amount of websites, including dating portals like the Ashley Madison, has been targeted by massive attacks managed by Russian hackers. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 01, 2015
MassVet finds unknown malicious apps in app stores in 10 Sec

A group of researchers have developed a method dubbed Mass Vetting (MassVet) to find unknown malicious apps in app stores in 10 Seconds. A group of University researchers has created a new method for detecting malicious apps running on an Android devices called MassVet. MassVet doesn’t use the old method of signatures scanning, instead it compares […]