Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2015
TSA master keys 3D blueprints for Luggage Locks Leaked Online

On gitHub there are available for download the blueprints for the TSA master keys, every lock which is ‘TSA recognized’ is at risk. In November 2014, The Washington Post published a story  about “the secret life of baggage” showing the secret work the Transportation Security Administration officers. The article was only briefly accompanied by a photo […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2015
Zimperium firm released the Android Stagefright Exploit Code

Zimperium firm released the Android Stagefright Exploit Code, the Android flaw that is threatening the users of the popular Google mobile OS. Experts at Zimperium Mobile Security Labs (zLabs) recently discovered a critical flaw, dubbed Stagefright affecting the Android OS. The experts revealed that the Stagefright flaw (CVE-2015-1538) potentially affects 95% of Android devices running version 2.2 to 5.1 of […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2015
iOS 9 security by design, but hacker already shows a jailbreak

Apple announced the secure iOS 9 but a popular hacker demonstrated the untethered iOS 9 Jailbreak in a video PoC before its release. Apple announced new security enhancements for its new operating system iOS 9. The new version of the Apple OS, iOS 9, will be available from September 16th on the iPhone, iPad and iPod, according the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2015
10 Days to crack 11 Million Ashley Madison hashed passwords

Ashley Madison – A group of hackers which calls itself CynoSure Prime has cracked more than 11 Million hashed passwords protected with Bcrypt. How? Last month hackers breached the popular adultery website Ashley Madison and leaked online a dump containing data belonging to 37 Million users, including 37 Million of encrypted password. News of the day is […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2015
Cyber criminal crew DD4BC extorts businesses via DDoS

According to a report recently issued by Akamai, the DD4BC criminal group has been responsible for at least 114 DDoS attacks on its customers. According the Akamai firm, the criminal crews known as DD4BC has carried out at least 114 DDoS attacks with an average peak bandwidth of around 13.34 Gbps on its customers since April […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2015
Another computer system at the Pentagon has been hacked

Another cyber attack hit computer systems at the Pentagon, this time the food court computers have been hacked exposing employees’ bank information. In August, alleged Russian hackers have hacked an unclassified emailing server of the Pentagon, it was just one of the numerous attacks against the US Government systems. According to the NBC news, US […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2015
North Korea exploits a 0-day in the South Korea’s principal Word processor

FireEye suspects that the North Korea is responsible for a number of attacks against the South Korea relying a 0day in the South most popular Word processor. Security experts from FireEye speculate that The North Korea has carried out cyber attacks against entities of the South Korea by exploiting a zero-day ( CVE-2015-6585) in a […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2015
Healthcare – Breaching a medical training mannequin raises new cyber security concerns

Cyber attacks against healthcare systems are likely to increase and students investigated the feasibility of breaching a medical training mannequin. Let me start with the scene from a popular TV series titled Homeland, it is a pacemaker hack. Security experts are warning the medical industry about the hacking of any medical equipment implanted in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2015
Microsoft fixed the Windows Media Center Hacking Team bug with the Patch Tuesday

This month’s Patch Tuesday features 12 updates including a fix for a Windows Media Center Hacking Team exploits reported to Microsoft by Trend Micro. In June, the Italian surveillance firm Hacking Team suffered a dramatic data breach, attackers leaked internal data of the company, including email messages and source code of the zero-day exploits used […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2015
Turla APT Group Abusing Satellite Internet Links

Security experts at Kaspersky Lab published a report on the Turla APT revealing the use Satellite links to control its botnet. According to a new analysis published by the experts at Kaspersky Lab reported that the popular Turla APT group exploited poorly secured satellite infrastructure to hide command-and-control operations. Turla APT was active in the last decade, […]