Pierluigi Paganini
July 25, 2016
The Indian security expert and bug hunter Avinash has accessed and downloaded the entire Vine source code and it was really easy. A hacker has accessed and downloaded the source code of the Twitter’s Vine application. Vine is a short-form video sharing service, acquired by Twitter in 2012, that allows users to share small videos of 6 seconds […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 24, 2016
According to the US-based Akamai Technologies Distributed Denial Of Service (DDoS) attacks have a great level of sophistication today. The Morris Worm of 1989 caused massive damage and losses with its unintentionally caused Denial Of Service (DoS) attacks. Fast forward to today, attacks have sharpened teeth targeting almost every IT service, from telco to gaming firms. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 24, 2016
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. First of all let me inform you that at the #infosec16 SecurityAffairs was awarded as The Best European Personal Security Blog http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/48202/breaking-news/securityaffairs-best-european-personal-security-blog.html THANK YOU! Hackers used malware to steal $2 million from ATMs in Taiwan Riffle network will be […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 24, 2016
A group of hackers has devised a method to hack Pokemon Go to and reveal the exact location of characters all around you. Pokemon Go is the game of the moment, its viral and the attention of the media is very high on the gaming novelty. As the players know, they haven’t the precise location of nearby Pokemon […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 21, 2016
The federal authorities have arrested the alleged mastermind behind KickassTorrents (KAT) and seized its domains, blocking its operations. According to the US Justice Department, the feds have arrested Artem Vaulin the alleged mastermind behind the BitTorrent distribution site KickassTorrents (KAT). The KickassTorrents website kat.cr is down worldwide and most of KAT domains (kickasstorrents.com, kickass.to, kat.ph, kastatic.com, thekat.tv, kat.cr, kickass.cr) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 20, 2016
This critical flaw CVE-2016-4631 resides in the ImageIO and could be exploited by a remote attacker to steal sensitive information from Apple devices. Apple fans, I have a bad news for you, just one specially-crafted message can expose your personal information, including your authentication credentials stored in the memory of your Apple device. This means […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 18, 2016
DARPA organized a challenge where 7 finalists will battle it out with the Artificial Intelligence system to detect flaws and scan networks for exploits. The Rio Olympics 2016 is something everyone is looking forward to. The sportsmanship, the record making, medals the spirit of the game and the hilarious doping scandals like the 1920’s grafting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 17, 2016
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. First of all let inform you that at the #infosec16 SecurityAffairs was awarded as The Best European Personal Security Blog http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/48202/breaking-news/securityaffairs-best-european-personal-security-blog.html THANK YOU! Hacker Interviews – s1ege Realstatistics campaign leads to ransomware via compromised sites Security Affairs newsletter Round […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 17, 2016
A group of researchers has developed Riffle, a new anonymity scheme that provides better security and performance than others, including Tor. Tor is probably the most popular anonymizing network, million of users leveraged on it to protect their privacy and online anonymity. Now Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers revealed a new anonymity architecture that could rival Tor. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 15, 2016
The Labs team at SentinelOne recently discovered a sophisticated malware dubbed Furtim specifically targeting at least one European energy company. In May of this year, security researcher Yotam Gottesam with enSilo, began unraveling a mystery that continues to unravel. First reported by FireF0X, a self-proclaimed “ex-malware analyst” located in the Russian Federation, the Furtim malware […]
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