Pierluigi Paganini
February 07, 2015
A recent study published by RiskIQ security firm revealed that more than 11 percent of mobile banking apps includes harmful code. With the rapid spread of mobile banking services has increased significantly the number of cyber crimes targeting users of major financial institutions. According to an interesting research conducted by the company RiskIQ more than 11 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 05, 2015
After months of suspects a new revelation on Sony hack states that Russian hackers hacked and still have access to Sony Pictures Entertainment’s network. Sony Pictures Entertainment might have been hacked by Russian blackhat hackers and not the Democratic People Republic of Korea. This news emerged this week after renowned Russian blackhat YamaTough revealed that a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 05, 2015
A recent report published by experts at Kaspersky Lab revealed that the number of abuses for digital certificates is in constant increase. According to a recent report published by Kaspersky Lab the number of untrusted certificates used to sign malicious code is doubled in the last year. The reason is that there is the wrong […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 04, 2015
Security experts discovered a new severe XSS flaw affects fully patched Internet Explorer and exposes users to risks of attacks and identity theft. A new critical cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affects fully patched versions of Internet Explorer, the flaw could be exploited by hackers to steal user sensitive data (i.e. login credentials) and inject malicious […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2015
The popular website About.com is affected by numerous security flaws that expose its users to XSS, XFS, Open Redirect attacks since October 2014. Wang Jing, a PhD student at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has discovered that the majority of the web page of About.com are vulnerable different types of attacks, including cross-site scripting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2015
A security vulnerability in the BMW Connected Drive system allowed security experts to send remote unlocking instructions to the cars. Modern cars are complex systems composed of several components interconnected by internal networks, each system within these architectures is exposed to the risk of cyber attacks. Recently the German carmaker BMW has fixed a security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 31, 2015
The security expert Ken Munro has run a series of penetration tests on sex toys and dolls for children … the results are disconcerting. Everything that could be connected to a computer could be potentially exploited to hack it, we read about several cases that demonstrated how it is possible to compromise a PC by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 28, 2015
It is now emerging that the official NFL app for IOS and Android is vulnerable to easy hacking. The app apparently sends unencrypted data to NFL servers and can therefore be hacked by anyone monitoring user traffic. With only a few days remaining before the Superbowl, it is now emerging that the fans might be […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 28, 2015
The Linux GNU C Library (glibc) versions prior to 2.18 are affected by the GHOST remote code execution vulnerability present in the ‘gethostbyname’ function. A new critical vulnerability is threatening the Linux community, the flaw affects the glibc GNU C library. The vulnerability is present in all Linux systems dating back to 2000 and could […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 27, 2015
Security expert Rahul Sasi has discovered and exploited a backdoor in Parrot AR Drones that allows him to remotely hijack the UAV with the malware Maldrone. The diffusion of drones is alerting government and authorities, small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are used more frequently in different sectors. The security of drones in both military and […]
