Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini August 24, 2015
Cyber espionage campaign targets India and Tibetan activists

Security experts at FireEye uncovered a cyber espionage campaign that targeted organizations in India and the Tibetan activists. Security firm FireEye revealed an intense activity of hackers based in China particularly interested in entities and organization linked to the Indian Government as well as in information on Tibetan activists. Also in this case we are dealing […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 23, 2015
Hacking the Iridium network could be very easy

At the last the Chaos Communication Camp, held in Zehdenick, Germany experts demonstrated how to hack the Iridium network and eavesdrop its pager traffic. At the last edition of the Chaos Communication Camp held in Germany the organizers distributed 4500 rad1o badges, powerful devices running a software that could be used to intercept satellite traffic from […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 23, 2015
Who are the Ashley Madison users?

The hackers behind that data breach of the Ashley Madison website have released another dump of 20 GB and experts are publishing their analysis on it. The recent hack of the adultery website Ashley Madison is attracting the attention of the media, after the disclosure of a second dump of data the security experts started their […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 22, 2015
BMW was aware of the flaw exploited by the OwnStar Hack

A security researcher revealed that BMW was aware of the mobile app vulnerability that allows hackers to run the Ownstar attack. At the recent DEF CON conference the popular security researcher Samy Kamkar presented Ownstar, a $100 gadget that allows to hacks GM Cars. The Ownstar tool allows to locate, unlock, and start a car who […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 21, 2015
Web.com hacked, at least 93,000 credit card data exposed

The US-based web hosting company Web.com has been Hacked, it admitted that credit card information of 93,000 customers have been compromised. Web.com is the last victim of a data breach, the US-based web hosting company has up to 3.3 Million customers. According the first news circulating in the Internet the hackers may have compromised personal information and […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2015
Hackers released a second dump of Ashley Madison data

The hackers behind that data breach of the Ashley Madison website, who call themselves “Impact Team,” have released another dump of 20 GB. A few hours ago, Joseph Cox, contributor at MotherBoard confirmed that the hackers behind the Ashley Madison data breach released a new dump of website database. In the last days, 10GB of data apparently […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2015
Hackers have leaked Ashley Madison dump online

The hacking crew who breached the online adultery website Ashley Madison has leaked online a dump of the company’s websites containing user data. In July, the popular online cheating site Ashley Madison has been hacked and a big amount of data was stolen by hackers who posted part of this information online as proof of […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2015
Chip-and-PIN technology has been compromised

A new report published by the popular investigator Brian Krebs show how cyber criminals have compromised chip-and-PIN technology. Recently chip-and-PIN technology started to be adopted in the US because it would improve the security for the customers, merchants and financial institutions. This is true, but the problem is that when the market pushes in one […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2015
CVE-2015-3842 – A new critical flaw threatens Android users

CVE-2015-3842 is a new flaw affecting the Android mediaserver, which can be exploited to perform attacks involving arbitrary code execution. The problems for Android users continue, a long serie of vulnerabilities has been discovered by the experts in the last weeks, Stagefright, zero-day zero-day deserialization, and Certifi-Gate are the names of some of the flaw recently […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2015
Critical Zero-Day flaw – Microsoft Pushes Emergency IE Patch

Microsoft has pushed an emergency patch to remediate a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that is actively being exploited in-the-wild. Today, August 18th, 2015, Microsoft released an emergency patch after being notified of a critical vulnerability in all supported versions of Internet Explorer. All versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer from IE7 to IE11 are affected by this zero-day vulnerability. […]