Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2015
Experts say the cyber attack on the German Bundestag alleged began with the compromise of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s personal computer. I have written many posts regarding a recent attack against the German Bundestag with caused a major data breach. We discussed the possibility that the cyber attack against the German Parliament was coordinated by Russian state-sponsored hackers that spread a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2015
A German security researcher reported hundreds of wind turbines and solar systems wide open to easy exploits worldwide due to the lack of security by design The German researcher Maxim Rupp has discovered numerous security issues in clean energy systems, including solar lighting and wind turbines. The possible consequence of a cyber attack is the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2015
Duqu 2.0, the malware that infected systems at Kaspersky could have been designed by Israel, no doubts abou the state-sponsored attack. A few days ago, the security industry was surprised by the discovery of a new strain of the popular Duqu worm, so called Duqu 2.0. The most disconcerting fact related to the discovery of the malware is that Duqu 2.0 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 12, 2015
Users of the popular Agora Dark Market have been targeted by unknown crooks who sent them malicious java script exploit that tries to steal their Bitcoin. Users of the popular Agora Marketplace have been targeted by unknown crooks who sent them malicious messages trough their PM system. The messages contain a malicious java script exploit that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 11, 2015
German media states that Bundestag may need to replace 20,000 computers after the recent attack, an operation that could cost millions Euro. A few days ago the experts the German Government has confirmed that hackers who breached the Bundestag systems a few of weeks ago have also stolen data from targeted network. A spokeswoman for the Bundestag, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 11, 2015
Apple announced a series of improvement for it IOS 9, including a content blocker can kill a lot of applications similar the popular AdBlock. A lot have been talks about IOS 9, and now looks like Apple included an ad-blocking feature in its OS, I would say it is a great news for its customers, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 11, 2015
A security expert discovered that United Airlines accounts could be locked-out by running a brute-force attack. The effects on a large scale could be serious. According to WorldMate security officer Yosi Dahan, a threat actor could easily lock-out United Airlines users from their accounts. Dahan explained that reported the security issue in March under the United Airlines bug bounty […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 11, 2015
A security expert demonstrated how to exploit a vulnerability in Apple IOS system to steal user password with a phishing email. A new vulnerability that affects Apple’s iOS could be exploited by hackers to collect user passwords by using a single email. Jan Soucek (@jansoucek) , a forensic expert at Ernst and Young has developed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2015
Belgian law enforcement exploited end-to-end encryption gaps in WhatsApp to intercept messages exchanged between members of a Chechen jihadist group. According to a report published by Bloomberg, two men were arrested and warrants were issued for other three suspects that were allegedly preparing a terrorist attack in Belgium. The interesting part of the news is that law […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 09, 2015
Crooks are using the NFC capability of Android smartphone to steal your credit card data, two researchers presented the PoC at the HITB. Crooks are using the NFC capability of Android smartphone to steal your credit card data, it’s scaring but true. But first let’s introduce the Near field communication (NFC) as “a set of […]
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