Pierluigi Paganini
December 18, 2013
Researchers from KONDA Security firm have discovered that the Russian hackers have stolen personal information of 54 Million Turkish Citizens. Unknown Russian hackers have reportedly stolen Personal details of nearly 54 million Turkish citizens, the data breach is clamorous if we consider that the figure represents nearly 70% of the whole Turkish population. The Hurriyet daily news […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 15, 2013
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab discovered Apple Safari browser stores previous secure session data unencrypted in a hidden folder. Apple’s Safari browser stores session information including authentication credentials used in previous HTTPS sessions to implement the feature “Reopen All Windows from Last Session”. Safari stores in a plain text XML file called Property list, or plist, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 14, 2013
The German security researcher David Vieira-Kurz discovered a critical vulnerability in the Ebay website that allows an attacker a remote code execution. The German security researcher David Vieira-Kurz discovered a critical vulnerability in the official Ebay website in particular in its sub domain http://sea.ebay.com that allows an attacker a remote code execution. It’s not the first time […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 08, 2013
NSS Labs issued the report titled “The Known Unknowns” to explain dynamics behind the market of zero-day exploits. Last week I discussed about the necessity to define a model for “cyber conflict” to qualify the principal issues related to the use of cyber tools and cyber weapons in an Information Warfare context, today I decided […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 01, 2013
FireEye Security Experts discovered Microsoft Windows XP and Server 2003 privilege escalation zero-day exploit Security experts at FireEye have discovered a new zero-day, a privilege escalation vulnerability in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. It’s is the eleventh vulnerability discovered by FireEye this year, really a great job for the researchers of the young company. The last zero-day flaw is coded […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 01, 2013
Bogdan Alecu, a system administrator at Dutch IT services company Levi9, discovered that Google Nexus phones are vulnerable to SMS-based DOS attack. The popular family of Smartphones Google Nexus is vulnerable to SMS-based DOS attack that could cause the handset freeze and other anomalous behaviors. Bogdan Alecu, a system administrator at Dutch IT services company Levi9, discovered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 28, 2013
A security issue inside cookie-based storage mechanism of Ruby on Rails could expose thousand websites to cyber attacks. Ruby on Rails, “hit an open source web application framework to compromise a wide audience”, this is the thought of attackers that desire who want to hack the highest number of web sites. A security issue inside […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2013
Due to the constant growth in the number of cyber attacks it is necessary to properly define the actions composing an incident response plan. FireEye firm published an interesting post on the need of incident response (IR) capabilities to reply numerous cyber attacks that daily hit almost any web service. Starting from the data proposed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 19, 2013
Indian hacker reported a Short Password Reset code vulnerability that could allow attackers to brute-force many high profile websites not protected by CAPTCHA verification system. Yesterday we received a vulnerability report in web applications from some unknown Indian Hacker who explained that how Hackers are hijacking Mobile recharge and Free SMS service related websites. He […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 01, 2013
The McAfee security firm found an Adobe Reader vulnerability that reveals where a PDF document is opened. The McAfee security firm found an Adobe Reader vulnerability that reveals where a PDF document is opened, once again Adobe products are the center of attention of security experts after the numerous attacks that have exploited flaws in its products for cyber espionage campaigns. […]
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