Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2014
Snapchat hack is reality, 4.6M usernames and Numbers exposed

Snapchat hack is reality, 4.6 million usernames and numbers exposed and publicly available on a specifically created domain SnapchatDB.info. Recently I posted an article on a couple of serious flaws in the popular photo messaging application Snapchat, Gibson Security revealed that using a couple of exploits known by the name The ‘Find Friends’ exploit and the ‘Bulk […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2014
Skype’s blog and Twitter account compromised by Syrian Electronic Army

The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) have compromised Skype ‘s Twitter account and blog to protest against the support provided to NSA surveillance programme. Syrian Electronic Army has conducted first hack of 2014 hitting Skype,  the group of hackers want to remind us that nothing is secure and that netizens will never accept the monitoring of […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2014
DROPOUTJEEP – How NSA completely controls your iPhone

Leaked documents shared by Der Spiegel show how NSA spyware codenamed DROPOUTJEEP can spy on every Apple iPhone. Apple denies any claim. Users buy the iPhone, NSA controls them. This is not a slogan for the last Apple advertising, it is the uncomfortable truth revealed by another set of NSA documents leaked by Snowden and […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 01, 2014
I will hack your systems with an SD Card

The hardware hacker Bunnie Huang presented at the Chaos Compute Club Congress how to exploit SD cards microcontrolled for malicious purposes. How is it possible to exploit SD Card, USB stick and other mobile devices for hacking? Another interesting hack was presented at the Chaos Computer Congress (30C3), in Hamburg, Germany, while yesterday I’ve published a […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 31, 2013
Cyber thieves are stealing money from ATMs with infected USB sticks

Two German researchers at the last Chaos Computing Congress in Hamburg revealed how cyber thieves steal money from ATMs win infected USB Sticks. Cyber criminals are exploiting new techniques to attack ATMs (Automated Teller Machines) infecting the devices with specifically crafted malware. Security researchers discovered a new series of attacks against ATMs, the criminals cut […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 31, 2013
CDM MAGAZINE – CYBER WARNINGS DECEMBER 2013 ED. for free

CDM (CYBER DEFENSE MAGAZINE) PRESENTS: CYBER WARNINGS DECEMBER 2013 EDITION The December edition of the free Cyber Defense Magazine is out. Don’t miss it.   SPONSORED BY RSA CONFERENCE 2014 Read each FLIPBOOK edition electronically, online and flip through the page: CYBER WARNINGS E-MAGAZINE:  DECEMBER 2013 CYBER DEFENSE MAGAZINE: ANNUAL EDITION FOR 2013 Download a color PDF […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 31, 2013
Russian hacker HASH took control of a BBC server

The Russian hacker known as “HASH” and “Rev0lver” took control of a BBC server and attempted to sell access to it to other cybercriminals. A hacker compromised a server at the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) and started a Christmas Day campaign to sell the access to the machine to other cyber criminals. The evidences of […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 30, 2013
Zeus, Cryptolocker and more, malware evolution according TrendMicro

A rapid look to last trends in malware development observed by security experts at TrendMicro, old threat including new improvements. Security experts have observed during last months an increase in the use of AutoIt coding language To Spread Malware and Toolsets. AutoIt is a very flexible scripting language used since 1999 in Windows environments. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 30, 2013
Der Spiegel – TAO hacking elite unit and NSA backdoor catalog revealed

Der Spiegel revealed that the TAO unit of NSA planted backdoors to access computers, hard drives, routers, and other devices from principal vendors. Germany’s Der Spiegel has published another disturbing article on the NSA surveillance activities, the media agency has published an internal NSA catalog that offers spies backdoors into a wide range of equipment from […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 29, 2013
eBay XSRF flaw allows attacker to make unauthorized purchases

EBay website is vulnerable to XSRF (Cross-site request forgery) attack that would allow an attacker to hijack an account and make unauthorized purchases. A new flaw has been discovered in the official EBay website, the vulnerability allows an attacker to hijack an account and make unauthorized purchases from the victim’s account. The flaw is not […]