Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2017
The software engineer Darren Cauthon reported his LG Smart TV was infected with ransomware on Christmas day, the malware asked for $500 to unlock the device IoT Ransomware is a scaring reality, the threat will increase in the next months and security firms have been warning IT industry. Routers, smart TV, and CCTVs are all potential victims of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2017
The popular crypto-currency Bitcoin has jumped above the threshold of $1,000 for the first time since November 2013. Why? Did you invest in Bitcoin? Good news for you, the value of the crypto-currency has passed the threshold of $1,000 for the first time since November 2013. The digital currency peaked the value on 1 January and now […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 02, 2017
Changing travelers flight bookings is too easy. Absolutely astounding the Karsten Nohl research on the insecurity of traveler flight information. The current travel booking systems is deeply insecure, it lacks of cyber security by design and the notorious hackers Karsten Nohl and Nemanja Nikodijevic have demonstrated it at the 33rd Chaos Communications Congress held in Hamburg […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 02, 2017
Today I interview the notorious black hat hacker @Docksing, he is an authentic star of the hacking underground. Enjoy it! You are a popular talented hacker that has already participated in several hacking campaigns, could you tell me more about. It wouldn’t be smart to answer that, but if I were to participate, I wouldn’t put […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 02, 2017
President Donald J. Trump is expressing skepticism about intelligence assessments of the Russian hacking and will provide more information very soon. The executive order issued by President Obama in retaliation of the alleged Russian interference on Presidential Election is raising a heated debate on the on the measures adopted by the US Government and its ability […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 02, 2017
The ISIS seeking to launch mass-casualty chemical attacks in Europe said security minister Ben Wallace. The UK security minister Ben Wallace declared terror group wants to carry out mass casualty attack in Britain UK by ‘whatever means possible.’ According to the minister, members of the ISIS have “no moral barrier” to using chemical weapons against the helpless […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 01, 2017
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. First of all, let me 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 Moscow wants Apple to unlock iPhone of the killer of the Russian Ambassador Merry Xmas, @Kapustkiy hacked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 01, 2017
Mozilla development team announced a new privacy protection mechanism that will come with Firefox 52, it aims to prevent websites from fingerprinting users. Mozilla announced the introduction of a new privacy protection mechanism to Firefox 52 that prevents websites from fingerprinting through system fonts. The technique is widely adopted by advertising companies via hidden scripts delivered with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 01, 2017
A researcher discovered that a single text message could be exploited to crash the Messages app by MMS on iOS due to a recently discovered bug A single text message could be exploited to disable the Messages app on any iPhone due to a recently discovered bug. The bug flaw makes the Apple Message app inoperable, making it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 31, 2016
The code associated with Russian hacking operation dubbed Grizzly Steppe by the Obama administration infected a laptop at a Vermont utility. Russian hackers are again in the headlines because according to US officials, they hacked a Vermont utility, raising concerns about the security of the electrical grid of the country. Researchers discovered on a laptop a […]
