Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini January 09, 2016
DDoS attack on BBC may have reached 602Gbps, never so powerful

The  hacking group New World Hacking that claimed the responsibility for the BBC attack revealed that the DDoS attack reached the 602 GBps. On December 31th, the BBC website and iPlayer service went down due to a major “distributed denial of service” attack.” The attack started at 0700 GMT and paralyzed the websites for more than […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 08, 2016
Experts revealed that security camera vendors lack of security by design

When it comes to securing homes and businesses, a security camera is a privileged solution but it paradoxical is exposing users to further risks. A new study made by researchers from NowSecure shows that IoT vendors have yet a lot to learn in terms of security, often doing many mistakes in that area. In the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 07, 2016
Resume files locked by Linux Encoder with Bitdefender decryption tool

Bitdefender has discovered for the third time a flaw in Linux Encryption Ransomware Linux Encoder that exposes the decryption Key used to lock the files. In November  2015, the Russian antivirus firm Doctor Web reported the discovery of a new Linux ransomware dubbed Linux Encoder that was specifically designed to infect Linux systems. The Linux.Encoder1 ransomware encrypts files present […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 07, 2016
Unpatched Drupal flaws open websites to attacks

IOActive has uncovered a number of serious vulnerabilities affecting the Drupal CMS that could be exploited to completely takeover the vulnerable websites. A new vulnerability affecting Drupal could be exploited for code execution and database credentials theft (by Man-in-the-Middle), according to Fernando Arnaboldi, a senior security consultant working in IOActive. Fernando Arnaboldi says that the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 06, 2016
Phantom Squad took credit for the PlayStation network outage

The hacking crew Phantom Squad claims responsibility for an alleged DDoS attack that brought down the PlayStation Network. Around 13:00 EST on Monday, The PlayStation Network suffered a major outage worldwide, Sony early confirmed that the network was “experiencing issues” and its status page showed that the problems were affecting all of its major services. Sony […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 06, 2016
Security experts disclosed SCADAPASS, a list of default credentials for ICS and SCADA systems

Security experts from SCADA StrangeLove group disclosed SCADAPASS, a list of default credentials for ICS and SCADA systems. Recently I wrote about the SCADA StrangeLove research team reporting their study on the level of cyber security implemented in modern railroad systems . Now the SCADA StrangeLove group has published a list of default credentials, dubbed “SCADAPASS,” associated with industrial […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 06, 2016
Zerodium offers $100,000 for bypass Flash Player heap isolation

The zero-day exploit broker Zerodium is offering up to $100,000 to security experts who can provide an exploit for bypassing the Flash heap isolation. Once again, the zero-day exploit trader Zerodium is in the headlines, this time the company is offering $100,000 for the Flash Exploit Mitigation bypass. Adobe announced in December the introduction of several Recently Adobe […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 05, 2016
Hackers cause power outage with malware in Ukraine. Is it an Information warfare act?

Hackers cause power outage with the BlackEnergy malware in Ukraine. Is it an Information warfare act? Cyber security of ICS e SCADA systems in the critical infrastructure is essential, these components are a privileged target of cyber criminals and state sponsor hackers. The most popular SCADA attack in the history is the one conducted against control systems […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2016
China hacked thousands of Hotmail accounts belonging to Tibetan and Uighur minorities

After many years, Microsoft admitted that Chinese authorities hacked thousands of Hotmail accounts, belonging to China’s Tibetan and Uighur minorities. After many years, Microsoft finally concluded that Chinese authorities indeed hacked thousands of Hotmail accounts, belonging to China’s Tibetan and Uyghur minorities, but at the time did not warn the users, allowing the victims to […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2016
Mac OS X is the software with most vulnerabilities in 2015

According to data provided by the CVE Details Apple Mac OS X is the software with the highest number of vulnerabilities in 2015. Which is the software with the greatest number of publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in 2015? You will be surprised to know that the software with the major number of vulnerabilities is the Apple […]