security

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2013
Becoming Resilient: The Definitive Guide to ISO 22301 Implementation

In this post I’ll review a book called Becoming Resilient: The Definitive Guide to ISO 22301 Implementation from my friend Dejan Kosutic that describes how to implement business continuity according to this international standard. At first sight, business continuity may not have a direct relationship with information security, but this is not so – business […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2013
Cyber security, Questions and Answers with the expert

Interview with the security experts Andrey Komarov and Dan Clements of IntelCrawler to analyze significant evolutions in the cyber-threat landscape. Today I desire to propose an interview with Andrey Komarov, CEO of IntelCrawler and Dan Clements, President of IntelCrawler. IntelCrawler is a multi-tier intelligence aggregator, which gathers information and cyber prints from a starting big […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2013
Safari browser stores in plaintext previous secure session data

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab discovered Apple Safari browser stores previous secure session data unencrypted in a hidden folder. Apple’s 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 called  Property list, or plist, […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 14, 2013
Google Vulnerabilities out of bounty program, how is it possible?

Experts at Hacker Online Club published a post on Google vulnerabilities that are currently not under bug bounty program of the company. Today I desire to propose the information on Un-patched Google Vulnerabilities  published on the web site Hackers Online Club trying to understand a hacker how could exploit them. The first Google Vulnerability is a […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 09, 2013
Linkedin iOS app V 6_1_2 HTML message parsing vulnerability

LinkedIn iOS app parses HTML in the messages, and this can be used to phish for credentials or be escalated into a full blown attack. Senior CyberSecurity Specialist Zouheir Abdallah @ZuZ  (Twitter handle), has publicly and responsibly disclosed a vulnerability in LinkedIn’s mobile app. Zouheir is known for reporting a serious vulnerability in DropBox’s 2 Factor […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 07, 2013
Android game allows WhatsApp conversations snooping

Google has recently removed from the official Play store the ” Balloon Pop 2″ Android game that allows WhatsApp conversations snooping. Every day numerous friends ask me if it is possible to steal WhatsApp chat messages and how, of course a malware represents an excellent solution to the request. In the past I already posted […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 03, 2013
The fundamentals of Google Hacking

Rafael Souza (CISOof hackers online club) introduces the fundamentals of Google Hacking ABSTRACT Readers, I introduce a little about a very interesting technique that is Google Hacking, is a key to investigate if we are doing a pentest, or protecting our organization or individual item. Google Hacking is the activity of using the site search […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 02, 2013
Potentially Unwanted Programs secretly serve Bitcoin miner

Security experts at Malwarebytes discovered Potentially Unwanted Programs like Toolbars and Search Agents that installed Bitcoin miners on user’s PC The value of the Bitcoin for a few days has passed the psychological threshold of one thousand dollars, confirming its growth trend, the attention in the virtual currency scheme is at the highest levels and […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 01, 2013
MS Windows XP CVE-2013-5065 Eleventh zero-day flaw found by FireEye

FireEye Security Experts discovered Microsoft Windows XP and Server 2003 privilege escalation zero-day exploit Security experts at FireEye have discovered a new zero-day, a privilege escalation vulnerability in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. It’s is the eleventh vulnerability discovered by FireEye this year, really a great job for the researchers of the young company. The last zero-day flaw is coded […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 25, 2013
Mobile apps security study conducted by HP Fortify

A study conducted by company’s enterprise security arm HP Fortify revealed that the majority of  mobile apps based on iOS is vulnerable. The company’s enterprise security arm HP Fortify conducted a series of tests on mobile apps that produced concerning results, almost every app is vulnerable. Mike Armistead, vice president and general manager, Enterprise Security […]