Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2016
Compare and contrast WhatsApp and Telegram, so as to see which of the two messaging apps offers the best option for encrypted chat. Messaging apps have been increasing rapidly in popularity. WhatsApp has gone over one billion users and Telegram claims to have over 350,000 people a day signing up for its services. So, it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2016
The researcher Dmytro Oleksiuk published details of ThinkPwn flaw, a UEFI zero-day that could be exploited by hackers to disable security features. Once again the IT giant Lenovo is in the headlines, some products of the company and some others from other PC vendors, are affected by a UEFI vulnerability, dubbed ThinkPwn, that can be exploited […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2016
Global Intelligence Insight, working with SecurityAffairs and SecurityMediaPublishing deliver a weekly report on issues in Syria and Iraq as well as extremist related global terrorism. GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE INSIGHT Global Intelligence Insight delivers weekly reports on worldwide jihadist operations with a particular focus on the Middle East and North of Africa, partnering with SecurityAffairs.co and Security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2016
For the cyber security experts, Karsten Nohl doesn’t need to be introduced, he is volcanic, a shining professional. Karsten Nohl is one of the most famous hackers in the world, laymen know him as the hacker that revealed to the world how to spy on anyone through the vulnerability in the SS7 protocol. Karsten Nohl […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2016
Hacking a Facebook profile -An unidentified hacker successfully took over a Facebook account with a social engineering attack that involved a fake passport Today I desire to discuss with an interesting case, a hacker successfully took over a Facebook account with a social engineering attack. The hacker demonstrated that it is possible to bypass any […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2016
Two security experts have conducted a study that allowed them to spot over 100 snooping Tor HSDir Nodes spying on Dark Web Sites. The attempts of snooping traffic from Tor nodes are not a novelty, in the past, we have reported the activity of threat actors that set up malicious exit nodes to de-anonymize users. Early 2014, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2016
The Federal Investigation Agency in Pakistan is investigating a Chinese organization that is specialized in attacking ATM machines by using skimmer devices. A few days ago I reported the story of the security expert Benjamin Tedesco that has spotted an ATM skimmer during his vacation in Vienna. The ATM skimmer was quite impossible to detect to common people and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2016
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. First of all let inform you that at the #infosec16 SecurityAffairs was awarded as The Best European Personal Security Blog http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/48202/breaking-news/securityaffairs-best-european-personal-security-blog.html Locky Ransomware is back! 49 domains compromised! PunkeyPOS might have already stolen millions of payment card numbers Security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2016
The US border authority seeks individuals that want to enter in the Country into providing their social media details in order to improve their screening. It is not a joke, travellers that ask for a visa waiver entry to the US may be asked to provide their social media details. I’m speaking about a proposal of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2016
Security experts from Kaspersky monitored a phishing campaign launched to spread a Facebook malware that infected more than 10,000 users in just two days. Security experts from Kaspersky monitored a phishing campaign that hit Israeli media since June 26th. Thousands of Facebook users reported that they had been infected by a malware spread through the […]
