Pierluigi Paganini
January 23, 2017
The Mozilla foundation has published its first Internet Health Report to analyze the dangers of the Internet that we can consider as a global commodity. The Mozilla foundation has published its first Internet Health Report to analyze the dangers of the Internet that we can consider as a global commodity. The oligarchy of internet companies. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 20, 2017
The popular encrypted email provider ProtonMail has launched the Tor Hidden Service to provide further protection to its users. ProtonMail is the world’s largest encrypted email provider with over 2 million users worldwide. Its popularity exploded just after the US presidential election, its users include journalists, activists, businesses, and normal people that want to protect their […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2016
Unfortunately, many smartphones have never been designed with security in mind, which are the most secure smartphones? Enjoy it! In general, smartphones have never been designed with security in mind. The emphasis has always been on features and capabilities while security is usually relegated to the back burner. And, while no internet-connected device is 100% […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 28, 2016
Libtiff library is affected by three vulnerabilities but unfortunately one of them, tracked as CVE-2016-8331, is still unpatched. Libtiff is a library for reading and writing Tagged Image File Format (abbreviated TIFF) files and according to the experts from CISCO Talos it is affected by three vulnerabilities. The bugs could be exploited by hackers to hack a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2016
CyberX experts at the SecurityWeekâs 2016 ICS Cyber Security Conference disclosed a critical flaw in the Schneider Industrial Firewalls. This week, at the SecurityWeekâs 2016 ICS Cyber Security Conference, researchers at industrial security firm CyberX disclosed several important vulnerabilities. The experts demonstrated how hackers can target ICS systems and passing security measures in places. Among the vulnerabilities disclosed by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 20, 2016
A group of security experts discovered that the Microsoft Skype Messaging service exposes user keystrokes during a conversation. A group of researchers from the University of California Irvine (UCI) and two Italian Universities discovered that the popular Skype Messaging service expose user keystrokes during a call. The researchers have devised a method to record the acoustic emanations of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 16, 2016
Sierra Wireless is warning its customers to change factory credentials of its AireLink gateway communications products due to Mirai attacks. Sierra Wireless is warning its customers to change factory credentials of its AireLink gateway communications product. The company is aware of a significant number of infections caused by the Mirai malware, a threat specifically designed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2016
Simone Margaritelli has done a reverse engineering of the Smarter Coffee IoT Machine Protocol to control the machine from his terminal. What is the lesson? While security industry is stressing the need to adopt a security by design approach for IoT devices, security researchers continue to find flawed and poorly designed smart objects. Clearly, such kind of devices […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 27, 2016
Microsoft encourages Windows users to remove the Windows Journal application by following the steps found in Microsoft update KB3161102. Microsoft has removed the Windows Journal application from its OSs due to the presence of multiple security flaws that can be exploited by hackers through specially crafted Journal files (.jnt) which are used to store notes […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 09, 2016
Another old and huge data breach was reported to LeakedSource, more than 33 million QIP records from 2011 have been compromised. Once again we are here to discuss a data breach, the victim is the Russian instant messaging service Quiet Internet Pager (QIP.ru.). According to the breach notification service LeakedSource, the leaked dump includes details of […]
