Pierluigi Paganini
January 24, 2014
Web developers Tal Ater discovered a Google Chrome Bug that allows websites to listen to user private conversations. Google still hasn’t patched it! Google Chrome is one of the most diffused browsers, it has an excellent reputation in terms of security, usability and performance but it is wrong to consider it as perfect. As any […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2014
Security researcher Daniel E. Wood discovered a vulnerability in the Starbucks official iOS app related to the insecure storage of user data. 10 million Starbucks customers who purchases drinks and food using their Smartphones are exposed to serious risk of data breach. This is yet another story in which a poor implementation of minimum security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 09, 2014
LinkedIn company filed a complaint in San Francisco against unknown hackers responsible for the creation of an impressive amount of fake profiles. LinkedIn is considered the social network of professionals, its scope is to give the possibility to the users to build their network of business relationship, sharing content of interest and exchanging opinion and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 07, 2014
The Indian Government is launching Netra project for internet surveillance. Obvious concerns for online privacy and freedom of expression of Indian population. The Internet surveillance in India is reality thanksĀ a project codenamed NETRA (Network Traffic Analysis), it is able to detect and automatically capture any voice traffic passing through software such as VoIP systems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2014
Snapchat hack is reality, 4.6 million usernames and numbers exposed and publicly available on a specifically created domain SnapchatDB.info. Recently I posted an article on a couple of serious flaws in the popularĀ photo messaging application Snapchat,Ā Gibson Security revealed that using a couple of exploits known by the name The āFind Friendsā exploit and the āBulk […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 02, 2014
Leaked documents shared by Der Spiegel show how NSA spyware codenamed DROPOUTJEEP can spy on every Apple iPhone. Apple denies any claim. Users buy the iPhone, NSA controls them. This is not a slogan for the last Apple advertising, it is the uncomfortable truth revealed by another set of NSA documents leaked by Snowden and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 28, 2013
Gibson Security revealed that The ‘Find Friends’ exploit and the ‘Bulk Registration’ Exploit menace the security and privacy of million of Snapchat users. Gibson Security has recently publishedĀ the detailsĀ of a couple of SnapChat vulnerabilities which could be exploited by hackers respectively to massively disclose users and associated phone numbers, and enable the creation fake accounts. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 23, 2013
The evad3rs team has released the untethered jailbreak for different Apple devices running running iOS version from 7.0 to 7.0.4. The evad3rs team has released the untethered jailbreakĀ for numerous Apple devices running runningĀ iOS version from 7.0 to 7.0.4 including iPhone (4/5/5S/5C), iPad, and iPod. Device jailbreak allows removal of theĀ limitations designed by manufacturer, the procedure […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 15, 2013
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab discovered Apple Safari browser stores previous secure session data unencrypted in a hidden folder. Appleās Safari browser stores session information including authentication credentials used in previous HTTPS sessions to implement the feature “Reopen All Windows from Last Session”. Safari stores in a plain text XML file calledĀ Property list, or plist, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 10, 2013
The Guardian published documents that reveal NSA and GCHQ infiltrate gaming platforms and communities including World of Warcraft and Second Life NSAĀ and BritishĀ GCHQ are working to infiltrate the virtual world of online games considered as an attractive environment for cyber terrorists and hackers, this is the last chapter of the Snowden‘s Saga. The Guardian […]
