Security Affairs

Pierluigi Paganini August 27, 2015
Ashley Madison, who hacked it? The Krebs’s opinion

Nearly 37 million users of Ashley Madison have been impacted, the popular investigator Brian Krebs has collected clues on the alleged culprit. The popular investigator Brian Krebs sustains to know the culprit of the Ashley Madison hack, which publicly leaked 37 million accounts belonging to the users of the adultery website. Brian Krebs disclosed the Twitter account, […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 17, 2015
Antivirus industry damaged by the Kaspersky’case

Kaspersky sustains the Reuters’s story on Antivirus false positives is based on information provided by anonymous former KL employees which are not reliable Some days ago, Reuters published a story about Kaspersky revealing that the Russian company was creating malicious codes to give them an upper hand against their direct competitors. Eugene Kaspersky in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 05, 2015
TaiG Jailbreak for Mac, tool for jailbreaking iOS 8.4 (Mac OS X version) Released

Apple’s iOS 8.4 operating system for Mac OS X can be jail broken now, thanks to the Untethered Jailbreak tool released by the Chinese jailbreaking team TaiG Apple’s iOS 8.4 operating system for Mac OS X can be jail broken now, thanks to the Untethered Jailbreak tool released by the Chinese jailbreaking team TaiG. Quite […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 03, 2015
A secret NSA map shows successful Chinese attacks

The NBC News published a secret NSA map reporting the locations of “Victims of Chinese Cyber Espionage” attacks that resulted in data thefts. The NBC News has published in exclusive a secret NSA map showing the locations of the cyber attacks carried out by Chinese hackers over a five-year period. Every marker in the secret NSA map […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 02, 2015
Security Affairs newsletter Round 20 – Best of the week from best sources

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. HORNET, the High-Speed Tor-Like encrypted anonymous network Anonymous’s team GhostSec thwarts Isis terror plots Drone Firing Semi-Automatic Handgun, what’s next? Advertising hijacking made by Invisible rogue mobile apps are […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2015
NSA will lose access to its surveillance metadata in Nov. 29

Metadata acquired due to the NSA surveillance programs was ruled illegal by a court in May 2015. The NSA will lose access to its metadata in Nov. 29. According to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the NSA will destroy millions of US phone records collected during its investigation. The process will […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 26, 2015
Security Affairs newsletter Round 19 – Best of the week from best sources

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. Russian APT launched a new phishing campaign on the Pentagon Dead NIS agent left note denying spying on SK population Microsoft to spoofed Skype users: Change your account passwords […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 23, 2015
Researcher discloses Local Privilege Escalation Flaw in Apple Mac OS X

Researchers have discovered a critical local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the Mac OS X operating system, but Apple will fix only by October. German researcher Stefan Esser, founder of security audit company SektionEins, has discovered a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the Mac OS X operating system that affects OS X 10.10.x. Esser decided to […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 22, 2015
Business Blackout, economic impact of a cyber attack against a power grid

What will happen if hackers will hit critical infrastructure in the US, which will be the economic impact of a cyber attack against a power grid? According to a poll done by Morning Consult firm, cyber attacks are just behind terrorism attacks on the list of biggest threats to the US, it has been estimated that the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 21, 2015
Hackers take over remotely a Fiat Chrysler connected car

The popular hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek have demonstrated how to hack a connected car remotely. Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek do not need any introduction, they are two stars of the hacking community that have alerted several times automotive industry regarding the risks related to the hack of connected cars. To demonstrate the feasibility […]