Pierluigi Paganini
March 23, 2015
Chris Watts discovered a security flaw affecting some models of Cisco IP Phones that could be exploited to eavesdrop on conversations and make phone calls. Some models of Cisco IP phones for small businesses are affected by a vulnerability, coded as CVE-2015-0670 that could be exploited by a remote attacker to eavesdrop on conversations and make phone calls […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2015
Cisco Security Team has spotted in the wild a new Point-of-Sale malware dubbed PoSeidon that is more sophisticated than previously detected PoS malware. Expert at Cisco have discovered a new Point-of-Sale (PoS) malware dubbed PoSeidon. The experts have discovered many similarities with the popular Zeus Trojan and use sophisticated methods to find card data respect other POS malware like BlackPoS, which was used […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2015
DLL hijacking is not a prerogative for Windows systems, it is a common hacking technique that is very effective against OS X based machines. As you may know, DLL hijacking it’s something that its around since around 2000 and allows hackers to exploit a machine with a vulnerable application ( just one of the possibilities […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 13, 2015
Security Experts at Malwarebytes security firm spotted a new Facebook worm that spreads itself by leveraging multiple cloud services. Social media are a privileged attack vector, recent reports published by the principal security firms confirm that cyber criminal are exploiting these platforms for illegal activities. Last disastrous news for the users of the popular social […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 11, 2015
Microsoft and Apple released security updates to fix the FREAK vulnerability recently discovered and affecting their products. FREAK is a major security flaw recently discovered that left users of Apple and Google devices exposed to MITM attack while visiting supposedly secure Websites. At the same time Microsoft issued a specific security advisory to inform its […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 10, 2015
A new interesting report published by The Intercept details the effort spent by the US intelligence to compromise the security of Apple devices. The Intercept published another disconcerting post on the US Intelligence campaign aimed to steal the secrets of the IT giant Apple. According to top-secret documents disclosed by The Intercept a team of researchers working with the Central […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2015
Bio hacking – technology and humans have never been so close, they complement each other. But what are the security and privacy risks? IS BIOHACKING A SECURITY RISK? Imagine a world where our day to day activities like door locking, supermarket purchases, credit card swipes and smartphone usage are replaced by just one chip embedded […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 11, 2015
A serious vulnerability in the FancyBox WordPress plugin makes it easy for a hacker to compromise any website based on the popular CMS. Last week SecurityWeek reported about another a zero-day flaw found in a WordPress plugin. This time, a new vulnerability found in the popular FancyBox for WordPress plugin could be exploited to inject […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 11, 2015
Researchers from Trend Micro discovered that unknown hackers have compromised Gas Pump Monitoring Systems in the US … it’s security emergency. Researchers at Trend Micro and many other security firms have observed a significant increase in the number of cyber attacks against systems in oil and energy industries. Another worrying trend observed by the experts is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 05, 2015
A recent report published by experts at Kaspersky Lab revealed that the number of abuses for digital certificates is in constant increase. According to a recent report published by Kaspersky Lab the number of untrusted certificates used to sign malicious code is doubled in the last year. The reason is that there is the wrong […]
