Pierluigi Paganini
October 06, 2015
Snowden told the BBC’s Panorama that the GCHQ has developed a hacking suite dubbed Smurf Suite, it can hack any mobile by sending an encrypted text message. There is no way to stop secret services spying on users’ Smartphones, this is the last revelation of the US whistleblower Edward Snowden. Snowden told the BBC’s Panorama that the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 06, 2015
The nuclear industry is still unprepared to respond cyberattacks exposing civil nuclear facilities worldwide at risk of cyber attacks. Civil nuclear facilities worldwide are privileged targets for cyber attacks, according to a new report published this week by the Chatham House. The Stuxnet attack that targeted Iranian nuclear facilities demonstrated the risks for cyberattacks, for the first […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 06, 2015
Researchers have discovered an advanced malware that can breach organizations by infecting their Outlook Web Application (OWA) mail server. According to the experts at the Cybereason security firm threat actors breached an unnamed organization network and maintained persistence for months via a webmail server. The victim was a midsize public services company based in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 06, 2015
According to the Government of Seoul, the North Korea is the main suspect for a cyber attack that last year hit the South Korean capital’s subway system. The attack, staged between March and August 2014, affected several servers of Seoul Metro, which runs four major subway lines, According to the ruling party legislator Ha Tae-Kyung […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 05, 2015
The post includes a detailed procedure to hack and decrypt WhatsApp Database remotely on rooted Android mobile devices. Very Interesting! A few hours ago it has been published an interesting post on “How to Hack and Decrypt WhatsApp Database (Remotely) [ROOT]” that explains how to extract and decrypt WhatsApp database from a rooted Android system. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 03, 2015
Online stock brokerage Scottrade has suffered a major data breach that exposed the personal information of 4.6 million customers. Data breach news are making the headlines, while I’m writing about the hack of the crowdfunding website Patreon and the hack of Experian, the news of a data breach suffered by the online stock brokerage Scottrade is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 03, 2015
The Crowdfunding website Patreon has been hacked and about 15 gigabytes of data including names, addresses and donations have been published online. The data have been available on different servers online locations, including this source. The Patreon website collects donations to artists for projects, according to the information provided by the chief executive Jack Conte, credit card […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2015
Experian’s data breach puts 15 million T-Mobile users’ personal information at risk- The company already started the incident response procedure. T-Mobile has announced that data belonging to 15 million consumers may have compromised in a cyber attack that the company has suffered. The hackers targeted the Experian company which processes some of T-Mobile’s credit applications accessing customers personal data. “We have been notified […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2015
A billion Android phones are vulnerable to Stagefright 2.0 flaws that could be exploited by attackers to execute malicious code on the targeted device. Do you remember the Stagefright vulnerability? In July 2015, security experts from Zimperium discovered the Stagefright flaw in the popular Google Android OS which allows hackers to gain control of the system without raising […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2015
A new strain of malware identified by Symantec as the Vigilante malware, aka Wifatch, has infected tens of thousands of IoT devices across the world. Who is infecting thousands of IoT devices across the world, and why? A new strain of malware, identified by Symantec as Linux.Wifatch has infected tens of thousands of IoT devices across the […]
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