Pierluigi Paganini
August 02, 2015
ESET issued a report on a cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation Potao that relied on the diffusion of a trojanized Russian language version of TrueCrypt. Despite TrueCrypt development was mysteriously interrupted last year, the popular open-source encryption tool still represents the ideal choice for individuals that need to encrypt their data. Recently ESET published an interesting report […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 01, 2015
Antivirus firms BitDefender has been hacked and data belonging to its customer have been leaked online. Hackers requested a $15,000 ransomware. Hackers are raising the bar, one of the most popular Antivirus firms BitDefender has been hacked and data belonging to its customer have been leaked online. The data breach highlighted serious security issues in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 01, 2015
A new vulnerability affects Bind, the open-source software that implements the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols for the Internet. BIND is used by servers for translating human-friendly domain names into IP addresses. This vulnerability could be exploited by a lone hacker to bring down swaths of the Internet. The problem affects all the major versions […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 31, 2015
The popular hacker Samy Kamkar has presented a new gadget that could be exploited to hacks GM Cars. The tool allows to locate, Unlock, and Start Them. Do you have a General Motors car? Do you have $100 to spare? Do you want to hack your car? If the reply to my questions is yes, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 31, 2015
Experts at FireEye discovered a new APT group dubbed APT 29 that is exploiting Twitter to mask the activities of their data-stealer malware. Experts at FireEye uncovered a group of alleged Russian hackers, dubbed APT 29, that is exploiting Twitter to mask the activities of their data-stealer malware. The hackers belonging to the APT 29 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 31, 2015
A couple of married researchers demonstrated hot to disable high-tech sniper rifles and change their targets with unpredictable consequences. Hacking, hacking, always hacking … this time we will discuss remote hacking of High-tech Sniper Rifles. Hackers can compromise High-tech Sniper Rifles and causing problems pointing to the target. Hackers can gain access to the $13,000 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 30, 2015
Researchers from Trend Micro discovered a new critical vulnerability in the Android mobile OS that can be exploited to crash mobile devices. Experts from Trend Micro discovered a new vulnerability, an integer overflow bug in the Android mediaserver service, that affects versions of Android starting with 4.3 Jelly Bean and up to 5.1.1 Lollipop. The flaw […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 30, 2015
Accuvant researchers will be releasing an open source piece of hardware dubbed BLEkey that can be used to circumvent these RFID card readers. Do you require to pass a card into a device to enter in your company’s office? Most probably you are using a card based on Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to grant the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 30, 2015
Part of a Pentagon email network taken down over suspicious activity, the US authorities are investigating on the alleged intrusion. New problems for the White House emerges from the cyberspace, a portion of the Department of Defence’s email network has been taken down over suspicious activity. According to Pentagon spokeswoman, the unclassified email network used by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 29, 2015
Security Firm Cyphort Labs reported that 10 million users may have been infected in ten days by a malvertising and exploit kit campaign. Nick Bilogorskiy, a security researcher at Cyphort revealed that 10 million users may have been infected in ten days due to a malvertising and exploit kit campaign. According to the expert threat actors […]
