Pierluigi Paganini
January 26, 2014
The cyber security expert Ebrahim Hegazy has found a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in a Yahoo server hosting numerous sub-domains. The cyber security expert Ebrahim Hegazy has found a serious flaw, as explained by the analyst the website is affected by a Remote Code Execution vulnerability. During the test Hegazy discovered first a Remote PHP Code […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 26, 2014
Attackers breached the email accounts of Microsoft staff, probably with a spear phishing attack, accessing to documents on law enforcement inquiries. Spear phishing attacks are within most insidious attacks for private companies and organizations, they are primarily caused for data breach occurred in the last couple of years. Despite the awareness of this type of cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 25, 2014
100 lines of code could hack new Snapchat people verification feature that displays nine images and requests new user to select the one containing a ghost. Snapchat is considered by many security experts a case study on how a lack of security by design could hit a large community of users impacting their privacy, a few […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 24, 2014
Web developers Tal Ater discovered a Google Chrome Bug that allows websites to listen to user private conversations. Google still hasn’t patched it! Google Chrome is one of the most diffused browsers, it has an excellent reputation in terms of security, usability and performance but it is wrong to consider it as perfect. As any […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 23, 2014
Researchers Winter and Lindskog identified 25 nodes of Tor network that tampered with web traffic, decrypted the traffic, or censored websites. Two researchers, Philipp Winter and Stefan Lindskog of Karlstad University in Sweden, presented the results of a four-month study  conducted to test Tor network exit nodes for sneaky behavior, it has been discovered that a not specified Russian […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 22, 2014
Thanks to efficient investigation conducted by private firms like IntelCrawler, BlackPOS author was identifyed and professes his innocence and good faith. I was within the official source to spot the 23-year-old teenager who developed the BlackPOS malware thanks to the revelations made by Cyber Intelligence firm IntelCrawler. The author of BlackPOS was known as “ree[4]” in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 21, 2014
SplashData has issued its Annual “25 Worst Passwords of the Year” enumerating the list of the most common password chosen by users. It was October 2012 when for the first time I’ve seen a report from SpashData on most common passwords chosen by users to protect their account on various services. SplashData, which develops password […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 21, 2014
Solutionary security firm published SERT Q4 2013 Threat Intelligence Report to provide an overview of the overall threat landscape. Recently Solutionary security firm published SERT Q4 2013 Threat Intelligence Report to provide an overview of the overall threat landscape, the document is the result of a research conducted over the last three months correlating events across devices […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 20, 2014
Financial Supervisory Service confirmed that Stolen credit card data of at least 20 million bank and credit card users in South Korea has been leaked. While US are facing with a series of clamorous data breached against principal retailers, in South Korea an employee of personal credit ratings firm Korea Credit Bureau (KCB) has been […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 20, 2014
Security experts at IntelCrawler provided a new interesting update on BlackPOS author, he forgot to delete his social network page. Intelligence firm IntelCrawler announced a few days ago that the author of the BlackPOS/Kaptoxa malware used in the attack against Target and Neiman Marcus retailers a teenager known in the underground with the pseudonym of […]
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