Pierluigi Paganini
November 30, 2013
Today the official Vodafone Iceland was breached by group of hackers Maxn3y, left defaced and a heap of data leaked from its servers. Vodafone Iceland was hacked by the group of hackers Maxn3y (@AgentCoOfficial) who in the past has stolen data from airports’ systems, electronic giants and fast food company. The hackers announced via Twitter […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 28, 2013
A security issue inside cookie-based storage mechanism of Ruby on Rails could expose thousand websites to cyber attacks. Ruby on Rails, “hit an open source web application framework to compromise a wide audience”, this is the thought of attackers that desire who want to hack the highest number of web sites. A security issue inside […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 27, 2013
Atrax, yet another commercial crimekit on the black market, a malware able to exploit Tor and that implements numerous features including Bitcoin mining. Atrax is the name of the last crimekit that is sold in the underground market, its particularity is the capability to exploit Tor networks to communicate with Command & Control infrastructure. Jonas […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2013
Due to the constant growth in the number of cyber attacks it is necessary to properly define the actions composing an incident response plan. FireEye firm published an interesting post on the need of incident response (IR) capabilities to reply numerous cyber attacks that daily hit almost any web service. Starting from the data proposed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2013
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission reported for the first time that cloud computing “represents a potential espionage threat.” U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission reported for the first time that cloud computing “represents a potential espionage threat.” , Chinese hackers are a persistent collector of sensitive information, their action is incessant and represent a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2013
A study conducted by company’s enterprise security arm HP Fortify revealed that the majority of mobile apps based on iOS is vulnerable. The company’s enterprise security arm HP Fortify conducted a series of tests on mobile apps that produced concerning results, almost every app is vulnerable. Mike Armistead, vice president and general manager, Enterprise Security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2013
A new report based on documents leaked by Snowden revealed that the NSA placed malicious software on more than 50000 networks around the world. The NSA infected more than 50000 networks worldwide with malicious software designed to steal sensitive information. The large-scale cyber espionage operation was revealed once again by documents provided by former NSA […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2013
Researcher Irene Abezgauz from the Quotium Seeker Research Center discovered a Facebook flaw that allows anyone to see a profile’s private friend list. Facebook is the privileged target for hackers and cybercriminals, the popular social network is a mine of data that could be used to acquire information on a specific target or to conduct […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2013
Security researcher Oren Hafif demonstrated how to hack a Google Gmail account exploiting a serious flaw in the password reset process. A serious vulnerability in the password reset process of Google account allows an attacker to hijack any account, this is the sensational discovery made by security researchers Oren Hafif. “that password recovery is often in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2013
Trusteer researchers have uncovered a sneaky piece of financial malware, known as i2Ninja, being sold on a Russian cyber crime forum. A new financial malware dubbed i2Ninja menaces banking, despite it has yet to be discovered in the wild, researchers at the IBM company Trusteer have found a sneaky piece of the malicious code on […]
