Security

Pierluigi Paganini May 23, 2016
Criminals steal $13m in three hours from ATMs across Japan

Japanese police are investigating coordinated raids across stores in Japan that resulted in the theft of $13m from ATMs in just three hours. Cybercrime doesn’t know boundaries, and in many countries, security experts are observing a rapid evolution of illegal phenomena on the web. The Japan actually hosts one of the most interesting underground communities, a criminal online […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2016
How to trigger DoS flaws in CISCO WSA. Apply fixes asap

Cisco issued a series of patches for the AsyncOS operating on CISCO WSA that fix multiple high severity Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerabilities. Cisco has released security patches for the AsyncOS operating system that run on the Web Security Appliance, also called CISCO WSA. The security updates fix multiple high severity Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerabilities. Below the details […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 19, 2016
Teslacrypt decryption tool allows victims to restore their files

A security researcher from ESET security firm issue a Teslacrypt decryption tool after the author closed the project and released a free master key. The victims of the dreaded TeslaCrypt Ransomware now have the opportunity to restore their files by using a decryptor developed by experts from the ESET security Firm. “Today, ESETÂź released a […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 19, 2016
Cyber spies from Suckfly group hacked organizations in India

A crew of cyber spies named Suckfly group is targeting organizations in India, it conducted long-term espionage campaigns against entities in the country. A group of high professional hackers called Suckfly is targeting organizations in India, according to the experts at Symantec the crew conducted long-term espionage campaigns against the country. Symantec did not disclose the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2016
CVE-2016-4010 – Watch out a critical bug can fully compromise your Magento shop

The vulnerability CVE-2016-4010 allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute PHP code at the vulnerable Magento server and fully compromise the shop. The Israeli security expert Nethanel Rubin (@na7irub) has reported a critical flaw (CVE-2016-4010) in the eBay Magento e-commerce platform that could be exploited by hackers to completely compromise shops online. The vulnerability rated 9.8/10 has been […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2016
Watson Is Getting Ready from IBM to Deal with Hackers

IBM has targeted hackers, bringing Watson (its computer brain) in the game, with the help of eight prominent US universities IBM’s computer brain, or else Watson, has been known to multitask, already involved in fighting cancer and cooking and so many other things. Right now, the focus of IBM has been placed towards dealing with […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2016
Bank Hack – How to steal $25 Billion with a few lines of code

A security expert discovered security flaws that could let anyone to steal as much as $25 Billion from one of the biggest Indian banks. The security researcher Sathya Prakash discovered that the critical vulnerabilities reside in the mobile banking application used by the bank customers. Prakash explained that the exploitation of the flaw allowed him to steal […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2016
A bug in the Symantec Antivirus Engine allows remote memory exploitation

The white hat hacker Tavis Ormandy has discovered a critical exploitable memory overflow bug in the core Symantec Antivirus Engine The popular white hat hacker Tavis Ormandy from the Google Project Zero has discovered a critical exploitable flaw (CVE-2016-2208) in the Symantec antivirus system. The expert discovered an exploitable memory overflow vulnerability in the core […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2016
Also the Giant Google has recently faced a data breach via benefits provider

Google started sending out notifications to employees about a data breach that occurred at a third party company that operates as a benefits provider. We all make mistakes, sometime they are small, some other big. But what if the mistake is so important to indirectly affect one the biggest companies in the world? “Oooops!”  This […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2016
A hacker compromised several Reddit accounts to prove it needs 2FA

A mysterious hacker is responsible for a mass Reddit defacement of 70 subreddits, he wants to demonstrate the lack of security of the popular platform. Someone is creating the panic on Reddits, a mysterious user behind the name TehBVM (@TehBVM) claims to have already popped more than 100 Reddit subreddits. The user already targeted subreddits related […]