Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2016
ISIS offers hackers up to $10,000 to hack govt websites

The ISIS radical group is trying to infiltrate the Indian hacking community by offering money to hack government websites. 30,000 people on social media have been already contacted by the group. Members of the ISIS are willing to pay Indian hackers to hack into government websites and gain access to sensitive documents. The radical organization […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2016
Nuclear Threat Initiative says nations not prepared to repel cyber attacks on nuclear facilities

According a report from the Nuclear Threat Initiative, numerous nations are not prepared’ to handle the cyber attacks focusing on their nuclear facilities. Numerous nations are not “prepared” to handle the cyberattacks focusing on their facilities linked to nuclear programs, as per a recent report from the NTI (Nuclear Threat Initiative). The Nuclear Threat Initiative is a […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2016
Be careful, opening crashsafari.com your mobile will crash

It is the joke of these hours,users are sharing a link to crashsafari.com on social media platform that could crash friends’ iPhone and iPad. Do not open any a link to crashsafari.com on your iPhone, iPad or even Macs, visiting the website will cause the Safari application to crash and Apple device to restart. Obviously, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2016
Flaw in Magento exposes millions of websites at risk of takeover

A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in Magento exposes millions of e-commerce websites at risk of takeover, update your platform as soon as possible Once again a vulnerability in the popular Magento e-commerce platform opens at risk of hijacking attacks millions of online merchants. According to the experts at Sucuri, the Magento e-commerce platform was affected by a […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2016
Lenovo SHAREit affected by hard-coded password and many other flaws

Security experts at Core Security’s CoreLabs have discovered a hard-coded password and other vulnerabilities in the Lenovo SHAREit File-Sharing App. Lenovo today has patched several security issues related to the presence of a hard-coded password the file-sharing application Lenovo ShareIT application for Android and Windows that is available for free. The application was designed by […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2016
OpKillingBay – Anonymous shut down Japanese airport site to protest against slaughter of Dolphin

OpKillingBay – A group of hackers linked to the Anonymous collective shut down the Japanese Airport Website to protest against the slaughter of Dolphin. The collective Anonymous has launched a DDoS attack that shut down the Website of the Japanese Narita International Airport on Friday night (at around 9:30 p.m) until Saturday (around 1 a.m). The attack has been confirmed by the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2016
A flaw in TeslaCrypt ransomware allows file recovering

The victims of the infamous TeslaCrypt ransomware can now rejoice, there is a free tool to decrypt files encrypted by TeslaCrypt and TeslaCrypt 2.0 TeslaCrypt is one of the most insidious ransomware first detected in the wild in 2015, today I have a good news for its victims. TeslaCrypt was first detected in February 2015, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2016
Skype – IP will now be hidden by default to avoid attacks

Skype announced it will hide the user’s IP address, the new security feature is enabled by default in the latest update provided by the company. Skype now hides users’ IP addresses, a measure implemented to protect them against attacks from online trolls. Skype announced the security feature this week in a blog post, the feature is […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2016
The Fortinet SSH backdoor found in many other products

A review of all the products allowed Fortinet to discover the same SSH backdoor on some versions of its solutions. Recently security experts reported the presence of a SSH backdoor in Fortinet firewalls, news of the day is that the company has found the same backdoor also in several new products, many of them running current […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2016
Be careful Facebook users, you are under attack!

Facebook users are receiving malicious email delivering malware masquerading as audio message, a similar campaign also targeted WhatsApp users. Social media and instant messaging application are a privileged vector for cyber threats, in many cases bad actors exploited them to spread malicious links and infect a large number of users. Now a new campaign is targeting […]