Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini December 22, 2014
FBI stated the North Korea hacked Sony Pictures, Pyongyang wants a joint investigation

An announcement by the FBI stated the North Korea hacked Sony Pictures, but Pyongyang refused accusations and offered support for the investigation. The cyber attack against Sony Pictures is monopolizing the attention of the media, in particular, the problem of the attribution is hard to solve. The FBI released the findings of its investigation that definitively […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 20, 2014
USBdriveby, how to compromise a PC with a $20 microcontroller

USBdriveby is a device designed to quickly and covertly install a backdoor and override DNS settings on an unlocked machine via USB. The security experts Samy Kamkar (@SamyKamkar) has proposed a very interesting way to compromise an unlocked computer and deploy a backdoor on it simply by using a pre-programmed Teensy microcontroller. The cheap ($20) […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 20, 2014
Google is aware of NTP Exploits publicly available

Security researchers at Google have discovered several serious flaws affecting the NTP protocol, which are remotely exploitable by the attackers. Security experts at Google have uncovered several serious flaws in the Network Time Protocol (NTP), including several buffer overflows that are remotely exploitable. The Network Time Protocol is a networking protocol for clock synchronization between […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 19, 2014
Several critical security vulnerabilities affect the Glassdoor website

The security expert  Mohamed M.Fouad discovered several critical security vulnerabilities at Glassdoor, which can lead to very harmful impact on all users. The Independent Security Researcher Mohamed M.Fouad has discovered  a lot of critical security vulnerabilities at Glassdoor that could lead to very harmful impact on all users.  Mohamed M.Fouad an Independent Security Researcher from Egypt. I […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2014
Misfortune Cookie flaw exposes more than 12 million SOHO routers to the risk of a cyber attack

More than 12 million devices are vulnerable to a simple attack that could compromise their home routers exploiting a vulnerability called Misfortune Cookie. More than  12 Million Home Routers are affected by a vulnerability called Misfortune Cookie that expose users to the risk of cyber attack. Researchers at Check Point Software Technologies reported the Misfortune Cookie flaw affects millions of devices running […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2014
ICANN systems compromised via Spear Phishing attack by unknown hackers

The ICANN organization confirmed that several its systems were compromised via Spear Phishing attack. The company is investigating the case. ICANN revealed the details of a recent spear phishing attack that allowed unknowns to access its network. The attackers spoofed the ICANN domain, and deceived internal staff into revealing their email credentials. The ICANN is the organization […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2014
Sony Pictures Entertainment is fighting back

Sony Pictures is adopting various measures to contains damages including a “fighting back” activity against website that share the stolen data. We will talk about the Sony Pictures data breach for a long time, the cyber attacks conducted by the GOP hacking team is causing serious damages to the company. It is early to estimate the overall economic impact […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2014
Worm exploits Shellshock to infect QNAP systems

Security experts at Sans Institute discovered a worm which exploits the popular Shellshock flaw to compromise QNAP systems in the wild. Experts at Sans Institute have discovered a new series of attacks in the wild exploiting the Shellshock attack code to compromise disk storage systems made by the Taiwan-based QNAP firm. The threat actors used […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2014
Fixed a critical flaw in Blogger that allows to write posts on any blog

A security expert discovered a critical CSRF vulnerability in Blogger.com that allows an attacker to write posts in any blog hosted on the popular platform. The Egyptian security expert Mazen Gamal Mesbah (@MazenGamal) has discovered a critical CSRF (Cross-site request forgery) vulnerability in the free weblog publishing tool Blogger.com. The vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker to write posts […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2014
LogDog Internet Security Survey – November 2014

Mobile developers behind the Logdog app have conducted a rapid survey to analyze the trend in the hacking of accounts for the principal web services. A few weeks ago I was contacted by LogDog, a company that has developed is free protection app from hacking attacks and identity theft, the developer asked me to try the […]