Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2016
OpKillingBay – Anonymous shut down Japanese airport site to protest against slaughter of Dolphin

OpKillingBay – A group of hackers linked to the Anonymous collective shut down the Japanese Airport Website to protest against the slaughter of Dolphin. The collective Anonymous has launched a DDoS attack that shut down the Website of the Japanese Narita International Airport on Friday night (at around 9:30 p.m) until Saturday (around 1 a.m). The attack has been confirmed by the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2016
Skype – IP will now be hidden by default to avoid attacks

Skype announced it will hide the user’s IP address, the new security feature is enabled by default in the latest update provided by the company. Skype now hides users’ IP addresses, a measure implemented to protect them against attacks from online trolls. Skype announced the security feature this week in a blog post, the feature is […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2016
Shodan implements a feature to browse vulnerable webcams

Shodan implements a feature to browse vulnerable webcams, including the one that is monitoring your kids while sleeping. The explosion of the paradigm of the Internet of things has dramatically enlarged our surface of attack, it is quite easy to locate vulnerable devices and hack them by using search engines like Shodan and Censys. Both platforms allow finding […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2016
New RAT Trochilus, a sophisticated weapon used by cyber spies

Researchers spotted a new espionage campaign relying on a number of RATs including the powerful Trochilus threat. Security experts have uncovered a new remote access Trojan (RAT) named Trochilus that is able to evade sandbox analysis. The Trochilus malware was used to targeted attacks in multi-pronged cyber espionage operations. Experts at Arbor Networks uncovered a cyber […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2016
The Fortinet SSH backdoor found in many other products

A review of all the products allowed Fortinet to discover the same SSH backdoor on some versions of its solutions. Recently security experts reported the presence of a SSH backdoor in Fortinet firewalls, news of the day is that the company has found the same backdoor also in several new products, many of them running current […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2016
TorMail hack, FBI surgical operation, or dragnet surveillance?

In 2013 the FBI agents seized TorMail, now new information are emerging on the operations. Someone believes it was a surgical ops others accuse Feds of dragnet surveillance. In 2013 the FBI agents seized TorMail, at the time the most popular dark web email services. The US law enforcement agency seized the TorMail database during in concomitants of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2016
Potentially backdoored AMX equipment being used by US President Obama and US Military

Experts from the security firm SEC Consult discovered a backdoor in the AMX equipment being used by US President Obama and the US Military. AMX is a company that supplies communications systems and building control equipment to the US military, the White House and many other security organizations in the States. The particularity of these systems is the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2016
A Reflected File Download flaw affects Google Finance

The Portuguese cyber security expert David Sopas has discovered a Reflected File Download (RFD) vulnerability affecting Google Finance. The researchers explained that different from other similar Reflected File Download he discovered in the past, this time, the attackers don’t need to create a page to force the download. “Found this vulnerability when auditing other client. With this RFD you don’t […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2016
Rapid7’s HD Moore will leave after Six Wonderful Years

HD Moore, the father of the popular Metasploit Framework, announced that he is leaving the Rapid7 security company to join a new venture capital firm. HD Moore, it is one of the most popular cyber security experts and hacker, he is the father of the popular penetration testing suite Metasploit Framework and the founder of the Metasploit Project. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2016
The critical iOS bug allowed hackers to impersonate users

Apple has fixed a critical vulnerability in its iOS operating system that allowed hackers to impersonate end users. Apple has fixed a serious vulnerability in the iOS operating system that could be exploited by hackers to impersonate users who visit  websites that use unencrypted authentication cookies. The issue resides in the implementation of a cookie […]