Pierluigi Paganini
December 03, 2014
Xbox Live online service was not available overnight after hackers belonging to the Lizard Squad hacking team hit it with a DDoS attack. Last night the Microsoft Xbox Live’s online service was interrupted, after Sony Pictures another company suffered a major cyber attack. This time the Xbox Live service was hit by a severe DDoS attack that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 03, 2014
An Egyptian hacker demonstrated that using a single exploit is possible to take control of any PayPal account due to the presence of a series of flaws . The Egyptian security researcher, Yasser H. Ali has reported three critical vulnerabilities in PayPal website that could be exploited by an attacker to compromise users’ account. The vulnerabilities include a CSRF and an Authentication token […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 02, 2014
The Reuters has reported that the FBI issued a confidential warning to US businesses following the destructive malware based attack on Sony Pictures. Following the major breach breach at Sony Pictures Entertainment, the FBI issued an alert to U.S. businesses related to possible malware-based attacks. According the Reuters Agency, the malicious code described in the alert could be the attack […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 02, 2014
FIN4 hacking team has targeted over 100 organizations since 2013, all of which are either publicly traded companies or advisory firms. Researchers at FireEye issued a report on a hacking crew dubbed FIN4 which is specialized in hacking of publicly traded companies with the intent to steal sensitive data, including mergers and acquisitions intelligence. ” FIN4 has pursued targets at more than […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 01, 2014
Indian researchers have discovered a flaw in WhatsApp that allows anyone to remotely crash the popular mobile app by sending a specially crafted message. A “nice” vulnerability has been discovered in the popular messaging app WhatsApp that could be exploited by an attacker to remotely crash the mobile app just by sending a specially crafted message. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 30, 2014
While the GOP crew continues to leak online internal files stolen in the attack on the Sony Pictures, the company is investigating on a link to North Korea. On Saturday the collective of hackers behind the recent attack on the Sony Pictures Television, the GOP, leaked online sales and contract data stolen in the data breach. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 30, 2014
A researcher at Google discovered a critical flaw in Windows Acrobat Reader 11 Sandbox that could be exploited to access a system and gain higher privileges Google security researcher James Forshaw claims that the Acrobat Reader Windows sandbox is affected by critical vulnerability that could allow attackers to compromise a system and gain higher privileges. “The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 30, 2014
As we look forward to 2015, it’s had to forget the complex bugs, data breaches and Privacy violations that have marred the Tech world in the ending year. Symantec Security firm now projects doom for 2015, warning that attacks will get Smarter and sharper. It’s the end of the year, a perfect time to look […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 29, 2014
Experts at Zscaler security firm discovered several websites defaced by AnonGhostTeam hacktivists leading to Dokta Chef Exploit Kit and CVE-2014-6332 Many security experts tend to ridicule the threat of hacktivist groups, in many professionals consider the groups that express political dissent through cyber attacks as a harmless threat. Now cyber experts are warning of a new hacktivist campaign managed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 28, 2014
A group of researchers at the University of Luxembourg have demonstrated that is it possible to de-anonymize Bitcoin users from its transactions. The majority of Bitcoin users consider the virtual currency absolutely anonymous, but researchers at the University of Luxembourg have demonstrated that is it possible to de-anonymize clients in a Bitcoin P2P network. In the paper written […]
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