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Pierluigi Paganini May 01, 2014

Facebook scammers exploit your intention to hack friends’ account

Security Experts at Symantec discovered scammers are exploiting Facebook users’ intention to hack friends’ account to compromise their profile. Symantec has discovered a new insidious scam against Facebook users, scammers targeted the social media users proposing a bogus Facebook hacking tool that promises to give the access to their friends’ accounts … unfortunately the unique account hacked is the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2014

A sophisticated phishing scheme is targeting Google Docs Users

Security Researchers at Symantec detected a new Sophisticated Phishing Scam that is targeting the Google Docs Users with complex social engineering tricks. Phishing is still considerable as one of the major cyber threats, its impact on the IT industry is devastating considering that attackers are adopting new techniques even more sophisticated. Principal security firms and CERTs […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 12, 2014

Abusing Facebook Access Token with Man-in-the-Middle Attack

The Egyptian penetration tester Ahmed Elsobky discovered a serious flaw that allows attackers to sniff user’s traffic including access token. Facebook is vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle Attack, The Egyptian penetration tester Ahmed Elsobky discovered a serious flaw that allows attackers to sniff user’s traffic including private information. “We’d actually received an earlier report from another researcher regarding this […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 09, 2014

Facebook ‘Naked Video’ scam hits 2 million users

Security Experts at Bitdefender discovered a clickjacking Naked Video scam that already infected more that 2 millions Facebook users. Sex and social media is a dangerous mix abused by cyber criminals to hit a large number of users of most popular social networks. In the last couple of years the number of illicit activities on […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2014

Discovered a Remote Command Execution Vulnerability in Yahoo!

The cyber security expert Ebrahim Hegazy has found a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in a Yahoo server hosting numerous sub-domains. The cyber security expert Ebrahim Hegazy has found a serious flaw, as explained by the analyst the website is affected by a Remote Code Execution vulnerability. During the test Hegazy discovered first a Remote PHP Code […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 18, 2014

10 million Starbucks customers at risk for official iOS app flaw

Security researcher Daniel E. Wood discovered a vulnerability in the Starbucks official iOS app related to the insecure storage of user data. 10 million Starbucks customers who purchases drinks and food using their Smartphones are exposed to serious risk of data breach. This is yet another story in which a poor implementation of minimum security […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 09, 2014

LinkedIn – Surge of fake profiles and increment of illicit activities

LinkedIn company filed a complaint in San Francisco against unknown hackers responsible for the creation of an impressive amount of fake profiles. LinkedIn is considered the social network of professionals, its scope is to give the possibility to the users to build their network of business relationship, sharing content of interest and exchanging opinion and […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 07, 2014

Project NETRA – The Indian Internet Surveillance

The Indian Government is launching Netra project for internet surveillance. Obvious concerns for online privacy and freedom of expression of Indian population. The Internet surveillance in India is reality thanks a project codenamed NETRA (Network Traffic Analysis), it is able to detect and automatically capture any voice traffic passing through software such as VoIP systems […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2014

Snapchat hack is reality, 4.6M usernames and Numbers exposed

Snapchat hack is reality, 4.6 million usernames and numbers exposed and publicly available on a specifically created domain SnapchatDB.info. Recently I posted an article on a couple of serious flaws in the popular photo messaging application Snapchat, Gibson Security revealed that using a couple of exploits known by the name The ‘Find Friends’ exploit and the ‘Bulk […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2013

Self-censorship – Facebook monitors everything users type and not publish

Do users know that Facebook analyzes everything they type and not publish (self-censorship content)? Why Facebook does not consider it a privacy violation? Recent revelations on the NSA surveillance programs have raised many questions in user’s mind on the real roles of companies such as Facebook and Google, how do they manage users’ data and […]

Facebook scammers exploit your intention to hack friends’ account

A sophisticated phishing scheme is targeting Google Docs Users

Abusing Facebook Access Token with Man-in-the-Middle Attack

Facebook ‘Naked Video’ scam hits 2 million users

Discovered a Remote Command Execution Vulnerability in Yahoo!

10 million Starbucks customers at risk for official iOS app flaw

LinkedIn – Surge of fake profiles and increment of illicit activities

Project NETRA – The Indian Internet Surveillance

Snapchat hack is reality, 4.6M usernames and Numbers exposed

Self-censorship – Facebook monitors everything users type and not publish

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