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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 27, 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. AVG will sell user’s personal data to third-parties A string could be used to crash Google Chrome Pentagon on manual mission to build nation-wide security database Tech finds 1.5M […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 26, 2015
Hilton Worldwide has issued an official statement informing its customers that the alleged data breach is currently under investigation. As reported by Brian Krebs of Krebs on Security, several sources are claiming that Point-of-Sale (PoS) registers utilized by several businesses operating within a large quantity of Hilton Hotel and franchise properties across the United States. These claims result from the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 22, 2015
Adobe has released a new Flash Player update that patches 23 critical vulnerabilities in the popular software. Update your version asap. Adobe has released a new Flash Player update that fixes 23 critical vulnerabilities in the popular software. According to the security bulletin issued by Adobe, Version 18.0.0.231 and earlier of the Flash Player for Windows and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 20, 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. Lockerpin, the first known Android lock-screen ransomware How did jihadists hack into top UK ministerial emails if no security breach took place? Vodafone Australia has hacked a Fairfax journalist’s […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 20, 2015
It seems incredible, but as already happened for Skype it is possible to crash the latest version of Google Chrome with a simple tiny URL. The flaw was discovered last week by the expert Andris Atteka who filed also a bug report. “Recently I reported a crash bug in Google Chrome (issue #533361). This issue reminded […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2015
DARPA is sustaining researchers to seek innovations in software obfuscation solutions to contrast criminals that try to reverse engineer software. DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency) and a team of researchers are turning towards new methods to overcome reverse engineering by using obfuscation to secure government and business security. The Research Team, remodeling a safe-ware program is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 14, 2015
A security expert discovered a critical flaw in the VxWorks, one of the most reliable real-time operating systems for the IoT also used by the Curiosity Rover. The Canadian security researcher Yannick Formaggio has discovered an important flaw in VxWorks which is the real-time operating system (RTOS) developed by the Wind River, an Intel’s subsidiary. VxWorks is one […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 13, 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. Carbanak trojan reloaded! A new variant spotted in the wild Fiat Chrysler distributes the fix for flawed Jeep via mailed USB DoJ defines new rules for spying with the […]
