Pierluigi Paganini
April 06, 2017
The Mobility Express Software shipped with Cisco Aironet 1830 Series and 1850 Series access points has a hard-coded admin-level SSH password. Yesterday I wrote about SCADA systems that are currently shipped with an unchangeable hard-coded password, and today I’m here to discuss you a similar problem. The Mobility Express Software developed by the IT giant […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 06, 2017
Members of the United Cyber Caliphate (UCC) pro-ISIS hacker group has released a new kill list with 8,786 targets in US, UK The pro-ISIS hacking group United Cyber Caliphate (UCC) has released a “kill list” containing the names and addresses of 8,786 individuals in the U.S. and UK. The group published a shocking video online […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 05, 2017
Cyber criminals launched a sophisticated cyber heist that compromised the entire DNS infrastructure of a major Brazilian Bank. A cyber criminal organization took over online service of a major Brazilian bank for five hours. The hackers compromised the bank DNS system and intercepted all the connections to the financial institution. According to Kaspersky Lab who […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 05, 2017
The firmware running on the Schneider Modicon TM221CE16R (Firmware 1.3.3.3) has a hardcoded password, and there is no way to change it. I believe it is very disconcerting to find systems inside critical infrastructure affected by easy-to-exploit vulnerabilities while we are discussing the EU NIS directive. What about hard-coded passwords inside critical systems? Unfortunately, it’s happened […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 04, 2017
Chrysaor spyware is an Android surveillance malware that remained undetected for at least three years, NSO Group Technology is suspected to be the author. Security experts at Google and Lookout spotted an Android version of one of the most sophisticated mobile spyware known as Chrysaor that remained undetected for at least three years. due to its […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 04, 2017
Experts at Cylance disclosed two UEFI flaws that can be exploited by attackers to install a backdoor on some Gigabyte BRIX mini PCs. Experts at security firm Cylance have disclosed two UEFI vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attackers to install a backdoor on some Gigabyte BRIX mini PCs. The experts tested the latest firmware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 03, 2017
The Linux kernel flaw exploited by the hackers at the Zero Day Initiative’s Pwn2Own 2017 competition to hack Ubuntu has been patched. The Chaitin Security Research Lab (@ChaitinTech) discovered a Linux Kernel flaw, , tracked as CVE-2017-7184, during the last Pwn2Own 2017 competition. The experts hacked Ubuntu Desktop exploiting a Linux kernel heap out-of-bound access and earned $15,000 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 01, 2017
Today the German Military is going to launch a cyber command, the Bundeswehr’s new Cyber and Information Space (CIR) Command. Today the German Military is going to launch a cyber command, the Bundeswehr’s new Cyber and Information Space (CIR) Command, a structure that is considered strategic for the defence of the country from cyber attacks. According […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 01, 2017
A security expert demonstrated how to hack SmartTV using a low-cost transmitter for embedding malicious commands into a rogue DVB-T signals. The number of IoT devices continues to grow, but unfortunately, their level of security is often very poor and at the same time the number of threats to smart objects is rapidly increasing. Due to security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 01, 2017
WikiLeaks has published the third batch of documents dubbed Marble that revealed the CIA anti-forensics tool dubbed Marble framework. WikiLeaks released the third batch of the CIA Vault7Â archive that shed light the anti-forensics tools used by the intelligence Agency, The first tranche of CIA documents from Vault7 was related to hacking tools and techniques, while […]
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