Pierluigi Paganini
October 28, 2015
The United States Department of Defense is still issuing SHA-1 signed certificates for its military agencies, despite they are considered insecure. Today I have published a blog post on the Army Vulnerability Response Program (AVRP), a sort of bug bounty program specific for the US military environment. The idea is to incentive the ethical disclosure of vulnerabilities […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 28, 2015
Security experts at Sucuri reported a number of attacks exploiting a critical SQL injection flaw recently disclosed in the Joomla Content Management System. A few days ago, security experts disclosed a critical SQL injection vulnerability in the Joomla Content Management System (CVE-2015-7858), but as expected, threat actors in the wild are exploiting it in attacks against websites […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2015
The Copyright Office has granted DMCA exemptions for jailbreaking making the procedure legal in the United States in the next years. Jailbreaking an iOS mobile device it is possible to remove hardware restrictions implemented by the Apple’s operating system, Jailbreaking gives users root access to the iOS file system and manager, this allows them to download and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2015
A group of experts has conducted a research that demonstrates the type of data that can be gathered through the forensic study of WhatsApp. A new research conducted by forensic researchers at the University of New Haven (F. Karpisek of Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic, and Ibrahim Baggili and Frank Breitinger, co-directors of the Cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 26, 2015
The Google Project Zero hacker James Forshaw assessed Windows 10 analyzing the big risks related with the new OS from Microsoft. James Forshaw, a member of the Google Project Zero hacking crew, was given the task to asses Windows 10, and see if there were big risks related with the new OS from Microsoft. Forshaw talked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 25, 2015
A hacker belonging to the alleged group LulzSec has claimed responsibility for a DDoS attack that hit UK telecom TalkTalk this week, but … I’m following the events related to the data breach suffered by the TalkTalk company, this week the British company has publicly disclosed that four million subscribers have been impacted by a “sustained […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 25, 2015
Researchers demonstrated how disable the airbags on a Audi TT (and others models) and other functions by exploiting a zero-day flaw in third-party software. Lately, many researchers proved that car manufacturers haven’t addressed security vulnerabilities in modern vehicles properly and use of lots of embedded controllers and providing different external interfaces made it possible to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 24, 2015
How much cost a zero-day for an industrial control system? Where is to possible to buy them and who are the main buyers of these commodities? We have discussed several times about the importance of zero-day in cyber attacks against computer systems, the exploitation of previously unknown vulnerabilities is a prerogative of well-funded hacking groups such as state-sponsored crews. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 24, 2015
Now that it is known a critical flaw in the Diffie-Hellman key-exchange protocol was exploited by the NSA to break the internet encryption, how to stop it? Recently a group of researchers has revealed how the NSA has cracked HTTPS, SSH, and VPNs rely on the Diffie-Hellman encryption by exploiting a wrong implementation of the cryptographic algorithm. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 23, 2015
Imperva has discovered that attackers hijack CCTV cameras to launch powerful DDoS attacks exploiting weak credentials and poor configurations of IoT devices. Internet of Things devices are becoming privilege targets of threat actors that daily abuse of their resources to run cyber attacks or to organize frauds or to spy on unaware users. Unfortunately, most IoT devices […]
