Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2015
The Taiwanese networking equipment manufacturer D-Link has accidentally published its private code signing keys in the source of one of its firmware update. According to the Dutch news site Tweakers, the Taiwan-based networking equipment manufacturer D-Link accidently published its private code signing keys inside its open source firmware packages. One of the readers of the Dutch news […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2015
The popular group of hackers dubbed w0rm breached the hacking forum “Monopoly” offering for sale all data present in its database. This is the classic example of the lack of rules within underground communities, today we will speak about a group of hackers who targeted another group and is offering their data for sale at $500. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 18, 2015
A Critical vulnerability affects Mozilla Bugzilla bug-tracking software could be exploited to access details of non-public vulnerabilities stored in its database. The open source Bugzilla bug-tracking system is used hundreds of thousands of software organizations that track the evolution of software bugs discovered in their applications. Development team urge to upgrade Bugzilla bug tracking system to fix the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 18, 2015
Sucuri has noticed a spike in the number of compromised websites as part of a malware campaign which relies on thousands of compromised WordPress sites. According to security experts at Sucuri, threat actors have hijacked thousands of websites running the WordPress CMS to serve malware. The technique is not new, legitimate compromised websites host malicious […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2015
Experts at Trend Micro uncovered the Operation Iron Tiger, a cyber espionage campaign carried out by Chinese hackers on United States Defense Contractors. Security experts at Trend Micro have uncovered a new targeted attack campaign dubbed Operation Iron Tiger. Threat actors behind the Operation Iron Tiger have stolen trillions of data from defense contractors in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2015
A new evil vulnerability affecting the AirDrop service could be exploited by attackers to silently infect iPhones and Apple Macs. Versions prior to the latest Apple OS version, the newborn iOS 9, are affected by a serious AirDrop Bug. The AirDrop Bug could be exploited by hackers to take full control of Apple iPhone or Mac machines. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2015
The security researcher John Gordon has found an easy way to unlock smartphones running Android 5.0 and 5.1 (Build LMY48M). The security researcher John Gordon has discovered a very simple way to bypass the mobile lock feature implemented on smartphones running Android 5.0 and 5.1 (Build LMY48M). Mechanisms like Password lock, Pattern lock and PIN lock […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2015
DARPA is sustaining researchers to seek innovations in software obfuscation solutions to contrast criminals that try to reverse engineer software. DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency) and a team of researchers are turning towards new methods to overcome reverse engineering by using obfuscation to secure government and business security. The Research Team, remodeling a safe-ware program is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 15, 2015
Mandiant firm has spotted more than a dozen Cisco routers running malicious ROMMON firmware images that allow attackers to control targeted devices. A few weeks ago, CISCO issued an alert to warn enterprise customers about a spike in attacks in which hackers use valid admin credentials on IOS devices to install bogus ROMMON images, which is the bootstrap […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 15, 2015
According to a report recently published by the Allianz Global the cybercrime costs UK businesses about £2.8 billion annually. According to a report recently published by the Allianz Global the cyber criminal activities costs UK businesses about £2.8 billion annually, accounting for 16 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). Cybercrime impacts on the global economy with £289.6 […]
