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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 20, 2014
Hackers from the group TeamBerserk announced to have leaked numerous sensitive documents from systems of some DHS Intelligence Fusion Centers. The Group of hackers known as TeamBerserk claim to have stolen 54mb of compressed documents from the systems of some US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Intelligence Fusion Centers. The group announced it with a Tweet: […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2014
Proofpoint discovered more Than 750,000 Phishing and SPAM Emails Launched From “Thingbots” Including Televisions, Fridge Recently security researchers from Proofpoint uncovered a cyber attack against the Internet of Things (IoT), more than 100,000 Refrigerators, Smart TVs and other smart household appliances have been hacked to send out 750,000 malicious spam emails. The nightmare comes true, dozens […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2014
Israeli Security researchers discovered an Android security flaw to bypass active VPN configurations and intercept secure communications. A new alleged flaw in Android mobile could harm user’s privacy over VPN. Israeli security researchers from the Ben Gurion University (BGU), the same that discovered a few weeks ago a vulnerability in the Samsung Knox platform, have […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2014
At S4x14 Conference in Miami, a researcher at of ReVuln disclosed a buffer overflow zero-day flaw in HMI software produced by Malaysian company Ecava. During the S4x14 Conference in Miami, Luigi Auriemma of ReVuln disclosed a serious vulnerability in HMI software. The team of researchers at ReVuln discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the company’s […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2014
Security researcher Daniel E. Wood discovered a vulnerability in the Starbucks official iOS app related to the insecure storage of user data. 10 million Starbucks customers who purchases drinks and food using their Smartphones are exposed to serious risk of data breach. This is yet another story in which a poor implementation of minimum security […]
