Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2013
Website traffic report shows an increase of malicious bots activity

Incapula security firm published a new report on the analysis of website traffic evidencing the increment for malicious activities. Researchers at the Incapsula security firm have published a new study on the nature of website traffic, early 2013 the company revealed that 51% of the overall traffic was generated by non-human entities and 60% of […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2013
Self-censorship – Facebook monitors everything users type and not publish

Do users know that Facebook analyzes everything they type and not publish (self-censorship content)? Why Facebook does not consider it a privacy violation? Recent revelations on the NSA surveillance programs have raised many questions in user’s mind on the real roles of companies such as Facebook and Google, how do they manage users’ data and […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 14, 2013
German researcher found remote code execution flaw on EBay subdomain

The German security researcher David Vieira-Kurz discovered a critical vulnerability in the Ebay website that allows an attacker a remote code execution. The German security researcher David Vieira-Kurz discovered a critical vulnerability in the official Ebay website in particular in its sub domain http://sea.ebay.com that allows an attacker a remote code execution. It’s not the first time […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 14, 2013
Google Vulnerabilities out of bounty program, how is it possible?

Experts at Hacker Online Club published a post on Google vulnerabilities that are currently not under bug bounty program of the company. Today I desire to propose the information on Un-patched Google Vulnerabilities  published on the web site Hackers Online Club trying to understand a hacker how could exploit them. The first Google Vulnerability is a […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 13, 2013
Crowd Sourced Formal Verification, find software bugs is a game

DARPA has launched the Crowd Sourced Formal Verification, it creates a set of games that search for software vulnerabilities involving volunteer gamers. The US Department of Defense Is evaluating the use of video games for finding software vulnerabilities with the collaboration of a network of volunteers. The idea is revolutionary, the support offered to DoD […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 12, 2013
ENISA Threat Landscape 2013 report, the rise of cyber threats

ENISA releases the ENISA Threat Landscape 2013, it a collection of information on top cyber-threats that have been assessed in the reporting period. The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) published the ENISA Threat Landscape 2013 report, a document that was annually issued to analyze significant evolutions in the cyber-threat landscape. The ENISA has […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 11, 2013
Detected 64-bit ZeuS banking trojan using Tor network

Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have detected a 64-bit Zeus banking trojan version enhanced with communication capability on the Tor network. Is Zeus banking trojan dead? Absolutely no! Periodically security experts found new a variant that includes new features to make it more resilient and able to spread itself via social networks. Last variant was […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 10, 2013
NSA and GCHQ infiltrated virtual online gaming communities

The Guardian published documents that reveal NSA and GCHQ infiltrate gaming platforms and communities including World of Warcraft and Second Life NSA and British  GCHQ are working to infiltrate the virtual world of online games considered as an attractive environment for cyber terrorists and hackers, this is the last chapter of the Snowden‘s Saga. The Guardian […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 09, 2013
Amazon opens civilian use of drones, I hack them

Amazon announced the use of unmanned drones for Civilian purposes, Samy Kamkar has demonstrated how to build your UAV “Killer drone” to hijack them. Amazon company, the world’s largest online retailer, has recently announced that it is testing unmanned drones to deliver products ordered by the customers, the service could take up to five years […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 08, 2013
French Government ANSSI responsible of a MITM against Google SSL-TLS

Google discovered the unauthorized use of digital certificates issued by an intermediate certificate authority linked to ANSSI for several Google domains. Google has revealed that late on December 3rd it became aware of unauthorized digital certificates for several Google domains and immediately has started the investigation. Security experts at Google found that the digital certificates […]