Pierluigi Paganini
June 11, 2015
A security expert demonstrated how to exploit a vulnerability in Apple IOS system to steal user password with a phishing email. A new vulnerability that affects Apple’s iOS could be exploited by hackers to collect user passwords by using a single email. Jan Soucek (@jansoucek) , a forensic expert at Ernst and Young has developed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2015
Belgian law enforcement exploited end-to-end encryption gaps in WhatsApp to intercept messages exchanged between members of a Chechen jihadist group. According to a report published by Bloomberg, two men were arrested and warrants were issued for other three suspects that were allegedly preparing a terrorist attack in Belgium. The interesting part of the news is that law […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 09, 2015
Crooks are using the NFC capability of Android smartphone to steal your credit card data, two researchers presented the PoC at the HITB. Crooks are using the NFC capability of Android smartphone to steal your credit card data, itâs scaring but true. But first letâs introduce the Near field communication (NFC) as “a set of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2015
Experts at Wandera discovered that hackers can set up a bogus access point spoofing Apple Pay and fool users into provide their credit card data. Experts at the mobile security company Wandera have reported a security flaw in Apple iOS that could be exploited to fool a user into provides his credit card data and personal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2015
TheHackerNews has reported a simple trick that allows to hijack a WhatsApp account easily on every mobile platform by knowing the victim’s phone number. The popular mobile messaging app WhatsApp is vulnerable to hijacking exposing hundreds of Millions of users vulnerable to attack. It could be quite easy to take over a WhatsApp account when the attacker […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 29, 2015
Security researchers at Trend Micro Security firm discovered that 1 in 20 Android apps open to attack due to a flaw in the Apache Cordova API Framework. Researchers at Trend Micro have discovered a serious vulnerability (CVE-2015-1835) in the Apache Cordova mobile API framework, that could be exploited by remotely by attackers to modify the behavior […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 28, 2015
According to a senior fellow for Lockheed IT, the National Security Agency has tested the use of smartphone-swipe recognition technology dubbed Mandrake. The NSA has developed a new technology, dubbed “Mandrake“, that can identify users from the way they swipe strokes and text on a smartphone screen. The news was reported by officials with Lockheed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 27, 2015
A bug affecting the Messages app allows a string of characters sent to a person via iMessage or SMS to crash an iPhone and cause the Messages app to crash A bug in the Apple iOS can cause the Messages app crash and iPhones automatically reboot when they receive a specific crafted text message. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 26, 2015
The recent report from ISTR has outlined the fact that zero-day vulnerabilities remain unresolved for 59 days. What you can do for online protection. Symantec and the recently published Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR) have made a truly frustrating revelation as to the time period, in which zero-day threats remain undetected. Whereas in 2013 this time […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 25, 2015
Experts at ESET have discovered over 30 scareware uploaded to the Google Play store over nine months masquerading as Minecraft cheats and tip guides. Do you completely trust mobile applications available on the official app store like Google Play? If your answer is yes, you’re wrong. ESET security researcher Lukas Stefanko has discovered 30 malicious apps uploaded […]
