Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini May 26, 2015
Tox, how to create your ransomware in 3 steps

McAfee discovered in the Deep Web a ransomware-construction kits that allow easy to build malware in just 3 steps, implementing an interesting model of sale. In the criminal underground it is easy to find malware-construction kits that allow easy to build malicious code from existing templates and in same cases starting from legitimate applications. A […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 24, 2015
Yemen Cyber Army hacked principal Saudi Gov networks

The group of hackers known as Yemen Cyber Army has hacked the computer systems at Saudi Arabia, they control also Interior Ministry and Defense Ministry. The group of hackers known as Yemen Cyber Army has hacked the computer systems at Saudi Arabia. The Hacking crew compromised the website, servers and databases belonging to the Saudi Arabia’s Foreign, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 23, 2015
Adult FriendFinder dating site hack exposes million users

Cyber criminals have hacked the popular online dating websites Adult FriendFinder leaking the highly sensitive sexual information on a forum in the dark web. The popular dating website Adult FriendFinder was hacked, it suffered a massive data breach that potentially exposed personal details of nearly 4 Million users. According to Channel 4 News, the information was offered […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 23, 2015
Astoria, the Tor client designed to beat the NSA surveillance

A team of security researchers announced to have developed Astoria, a new Tor client designed to beat the NSA and reduce the efficiency of timing attacks. Tor and Deep web are becoming terms even popular among Internet users, the use of anonymizing network is constantly increasing for this reason intelligence agencies are focusing their efforts in its monitoring. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 23, 2015
eBay promptly fixed a reflected file download vulnerability

EBay has recently fixed a reflected file download vulnerability discovered by the security researcher David Sopas at WebSegura. Ebay is among the web services most targeted by cyber criminals and phishers, over the years, security experts have spotted an impressive amount of attack exploiting techniques more or less sophisticated. Almost every attack relies on social engineering, attackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2015
A large number of websites and web services affected by the LogJam TLS flaw

Researchers have discovered a new  TLS vulnerability dubbed LogJam that open a large number of online services to cyber attacks. Logjam is the name assigned to a new vulnerability that affects the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol putting a large number of online services at risk. Logjam vulnerability can be triggered through man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks to […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2015
Millions of Routers open to attack due to a NetUSB flaw

A simple vulnerability has been uncovered in the NetUSB component, millions of modern routers and other IoT devices are exposed to the risk of cyber attacks The security expert Stefan Viehbock from SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab has reported a critical vulnerability (CVE-2015-3036) that potentially affects millions of routers and Internet of Things devices using the KCodes […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2015
Airbus – Be aware a software bug in A400M can crash the plane

The crash of the Airbus A400M military transport in Spain was caused by a software bug, three engines were shut down immediately after the start due to the flaw. Recently we have discussed a lot about the possibility to hack a plane, almost everyone has read about the computer security researcher Chris Roberts which reported the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2015
DDoS Attacks on the rise in Q1 2015, says Akamai

DDoS attacks even more dangerous according to the last report published by Akamai Technologies, the “Q1 2015 State of the Internet – Security Report”. According to Akamai Technologies, Q1 2015 showed that distributed denial-of-service attacks are on the rise again, and according to Akamai Technologies, Q1 set a record for the number of DDoS attacks, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2015
Unknown Hackers hit systems at Bundestag

The Bundestag has become the target of a significant cyber attack, hackers tried to compromise the internal network of the German Parliament. The German parliament Bundestag has officially confirmed media reports about a hacking attack that hit the Institution last week. “There has been an attack on the IT systems of the Bundestag,” spokesman Ernst […]