Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2015
A group of French researchers discovered how Fraudsters Stole nearly $680,000 Via MitM Attack on EMV Cards. On October 1st, EMV (Europay, MasterCard, Visa) cards have been introduced in the US to improve the security of payment card holders. EMV cards, also known as chip-and-PIN cards, rely on a cryptographic chip to improve security of banking transaction and avoid […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 20, 2015
Security experts have discovered that thousands of websites running the eBay’s Magento e-commerce platform have been compromised and used to deliver malware. Security experts at Sucuri have discovered a malware campaign that targeted a large number of websites the eBay Magento e-commerce platform. The same campaign was also monitored by the researchers at Malwarebytes which focused their analysis […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 19, 2015
The German researcher Starbug, has demonstrated that it is possible to extract everyone’s smartphone PIN code from any selfie “image,” is biometrics secure? The German researcher Jan Krissler, aka Starbug, has demonstrated that it is possible to extract everyone’s smartphone PIN code from any selfie “image” … and much more! Jan Krissler is a popular hacker, he […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2015
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. The Dark web – Why the hidden part of the web is even more dangerous? Apple Kicks Out some Malicious Ad-Blocker Apps from its Online Store The Dow Jones […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2015
For the first time, hackers have been arrested in China by law enforcement at the behest of the US government. Is it true cooperation? It is probably the first time that Chinese authorities have arrested hackers in China following a request of the US Government. Two weeks, before the visit of the Chinese President Xi Jinping in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 09, 2015
The vulnerability allows a local unprivileged user of a Windows guest to gain Local and/or Domain Administrator access when VeeamVixProxy is active, the de-facto default in VMWare and Hyper-V environments. Pasquale `sid` Fiorillo, Francesco `ascii` Ongaro from ISGroup, an Italian Security firm, and Antonio `s4tan` Parata from ush team, have just released a critical security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 08, 2015
Researcher with the pseudonym of “Alister Maclin” claims to be able to break Bitcoin network on demand by running the malleability attack. According to MotherBoard, a researcher with the pseudonym of “Alister Maclin” claims to be able to break Bitcoin on demand. The experts detailed a technique of attack dubbed malleability attack that could allow attackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 04, 2015
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. Cisco released a tool to scan for SYNful_Knock implants Aerospace Probes released to stratosphere for spying weapons Last weeks cookie-vuln wont be the last, security bod says Insult to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 03, 2015
Online stock brokerage Scottrade has suffered a major data breach that exposed the personal information of 4.6 million customers. Data breach news are making the headlines, while I’m writing about the hack of the crowdfunding website Patreon and the hack of Experian, the news of a data breach suffered by the online stock brokerage Scottrade is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 01, 2015
Patrick Wardle, director of research at Synack has already demonstrated another method, called Apple dylib hijacking, to bypass Apple GateKeeper. Since the introduction of the Apple Gatekeeper by MAC OSX, many researchers have focused their attention in trying to find flaws affecting it due to bypass Apple security and gain control of a device. Patrick […]
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