security

Pierluigi Paganini February 06, 2017
A Hacker hijacked over 150,000 Printers publicly exposed online

A hacker hijacked over 150,000 Printers publicly exposed online to warn owners of cyber attacks. Recently a group of researchers from the University Alliance Ruhr has found a cross-site printing bug in the old PostScript language. Popular printer models manufactured by Dell, Brother, Konica, Samsung, HP, and Lexmark are affected by security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2017
Mozilla Internet Health Report calls for more security and privacy

The Mozilla foundation has published its first Internet Health Report to analyze the dangers of the Internet that we can consider as a global commodity. The Mozilla foundation has published its first Internet Health Report to analyze the dangers of the Internet that we can consider as a global commodity. The oligarchy of internet companies. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2017
ProtonMail announced that its Tor Hidden Service is online

The popular encrypted email provider ProtonMail has launched the Tor Hidden Service to provide further protection to its users. ProtonMail is the world’s largest encrypted email provider with over 2 million users worldwide. Its popularity exploded just after the US presidential election, its users include journalists, activists, businesses, and normal people that want to protect their […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 26, 2016
The Most Secure Smartphones – Holiday Edition

Unfortunately, many smartphones have never been designed with security in mind, which are the most secure smartphones? Enjoy it! In general, smartphones have never been designed with security in mind. The emphasis has always been on features and capabilities while security is usually relegated to the back burner. And, while no internet-connected device is 100% […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 28, 2016
Three bugs found in the LibTIFF, one of them yet to be patched

Libtiff library is affected by three vulnerabilities but unfortunately one of them, tracked as CVE-2016-8331, is still unpatched. Libtiff is a library for reading and writing Tagged Image File Format (abbreviated TIFF) files and according to the experts from CISCO Talos it is affected by three vulnerabilities. The bugs could be exploited by hackers to hack a […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2016
Experts disclosed a critical flaw in Schneider Industrial Firewalls

CyberX experts at the SecurityWeek’s 2016 ICS Cyber Security Conference disclosed a critical flaw in the Schneider Industrial Firewalls. This week, at the SecurityWeek’s 2016 ICS Cyber Security Conference, researchers at industrial security firm CyberX disclosed several important vulnerabilities. The experts demonstrated how hackers can target ICS systems and passing security measures in places. Among the vulnerabilities disclosed by […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 20, 2016
Experts devised a method to capture keystrokes during Skype calls

A group of security experts discovered that the Microsoft Skype Messaging service exposes user keystrokes during a conversation. A group of researchers from the University of California Irvine (UCI) and two Italian Universities discovered that the popular Skype Messaging service expose user keystrokes during a call. The researchers have devised a method to record the acoustic emanations of […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2016
The Mirai botnet is targeting also Sierra Wireless cellular data gear products

Sierra Wireless is warning its customers to change factory credentials of its AireLink gateway communications products due to Mirai attacks. Sierra Wireless is warning its customers to change factory credentials of its AireLink gateway communications product. The company is aware of a significant number of infections caused by the Mirai malware, a threat specifically designed […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 10, 2016
Reverse engineering a Smarter Coffee machine for fun and a security lesson

Simone Margaritelli has done a reverse engineering of the Smarter Coffee IoT Machine Protocol to control the machine from his terminal. What is the lesson? While security industry is stressing the need to adopt a security by design approach for IoT devices, security researchers continue to find flawed and poorly designed smart objects. Clearly, such kind of devices […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 27, 2016
Microsoft removed Windows Journal from its OSs due to security flaws

Microsoft encourages Windows users to remove the Windows Journal application by following the steps found in Microsoft update KB3161102. Microsoft has removed the Windows Journal application from its OSs due to the presence of multiple security flaws that can be exploited by hackers through specially crafted Journal files (.jnt) which are used to store notes […]