Wi-Fi

Pierluigi Paganini February 07, 2016
Google patched Nexus devices, including a critical Wi-Fi flaw

Google announced to have patched a number of critical vulnerabilities affecting the Nexus devices that lead to the complete hack of the device. Google announced to have patched a critical vulnerability affecting the Nexus devices that could be exploited by an attacker on the same Wi-Fi network. The company confirmed that it is not aware […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2015
Hacking Apple Pay to steal credit card data

Experts at Wandera discovered that hackers can set up a bogus access point spoofing Apple Pay and fool users into provide their credit card data. Experts at the mobile security company Wandera have reported a security flaw in Apple iOS that could be exploited to fool a user into provides his credit card data and personal […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 23, 2015
Wi-Fi SSID names could allow to crash or hack mobile devices

Security researchers discovered a bug in WiFi SSID management that could be exploited by hackers to crash Android, Windows, Linux systems or hack them. In an e-mail published on the Open Source Software Security (oss-security) mailing list, a user reported a serious vulnerability that could allow attackers to crash devices or even potentially inject malware […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 17, 2015
In-flight Wi-Fi can be an open door for hackers

A report published by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) warns that the FAA faces some serious cyber security issues for modern flights. Security experts for a long time suspected that in-flight Wi-fi could create an entry door for hackers and a new report issued by The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) describes the dungeon of […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 18, 2015
ADB Pirelli Home routers in Spain and Argentina affected by critical flaws

The Spanish security researcher Eduardo Novella has disclosed details of two critical vulnerabilities affecting a specific ADB Pirelli home wireless router. The security researcher at Dutch security audit firm Fox-IT, Eduardo Novella, has discovered two critical vulnerabilities affecting a model of ADB Pirelli home wireless router. Novella decided to publicly disclose the vulnerabilities because the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2014
Hacking traffic light systems

In this article published on the Infosec Institute are analyzed the principal studies on the security of traffic light systems and techniques to hack them. http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/hacking-traffic-light-systems/ We often see movie scenes in which hackers are able to hack systems for the control of traffic lights, with catastrophic consequences, unfortunately we must be conscious that threat […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 30, 2013
Wi-Fi HTTP Request Hijacking attack against iOS users

Wi-Fi HTTP Request Hijacking attack against iOS – the researchers at Skycure have demonstrated a new technique that menaces mobile users. I’m not surprised for trust given by Internet users to public Wi-Fi networks that are notoriously insecure, wrong habits on the open networks could expose our identity to serious risks, one on all the identity theft. […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 23, 2013
T-Mobile MITM, a starting point to discuss mobile security

Many times we discussed about large diffusion of mobile devices and of related cyber threats, around a months ago I presented the case of HTC mobile that revealed 18 million devices commercialized by Taiwanese company had security flaws that could exposes users to serious risks, in particular the bugs could allow the theft of information […]