Pierluigi Paganini
August 10, 2016
The bug hunting company Exodus announced its bug bounty program. Who will pay more for a 0-day exploit? Reflecting on the zero-day market. Almost every IT giant has launched its bug bounty program, the last in order of time is Apple that last week announced the initiative during the Black Hat Conference. How much is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 05, 2016
Apple has chosen the Black Hat 2016 security conference to announce the launch of its bug bounty program, hackers can earn up to $200,000 for a flaw. Great news for bug hunters, finally Apple announced that it will pay hackers that will find bugs in its products. Apple is the last IT giant to launch […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 20, 2016
This critical flaw CVE-2016-4631 resides in the ImageIO and could be exploited by a remote attacker to steal sensitive information from Apple devices. Apple fans, I have a bad news for you, just one specially-crafted message can expose your personal information, including your authentication credentials stored in the memory of your Apple device. This means […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 10, 2016
A group of researchers has devised a new method for hacking mobile devices by using hidden voice commands in YouTube videos. A group of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and Georgetown University has devised a method for hacking mobile devices by using hidden voice commands embedded in YouTube videos. In order to hack […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 24, 2016
Apple confirms iOS 10 kernel code left unencrypted intentionally to improve OS performance and ensures that it will have no impact on security. The news is intriguing, while Apple announced the new release of its mobile operating system, the iOS 10, the experts discovered that its kernel is unencrypted. The researchers from MIT Technology who reviewed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 27, 2016
The security expert Chilik Tamir from Mi3 Security has devised a new attack dubbed SandJacking to install rogue apps on iOS devices. The security expert Chilik Tamir from Mi3 Security has devised some new attack methods that can be exploited by threat actors to install malicious apps on non-jailbroken iOS devices. Tamir presented his attack methods at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 22, 2016
FBI Director Comey explained at the Aspen Security Forum in London that the Agency paid more than $1.3 million to break into San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone. FBI Director Comey explained at the Aspen Security Forum in London that the Agency paid more than $1.3 million to break into San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone The FBI vs […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 14, 2016
A couple of security experts demonstrated that iOS date bug was still present in iOS devices and it was exploitable by spoofing an Apple NTP server. Do you remember the Apple iOS date bug? In February, the security community highlighted the existence of the embarrassing problem for Apple iOS mobile devices running 64-bit iOS 8 or higher, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 06, 2016
iPhone 6s and 6s Plus running the latest iOS version are plagued by a vulnerability that can be exploited to bypass the lockscreen. Another flaw plagues the new Apple iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, this time the mobile devices are affected by a Lockscreen Bypass vulnerability that could be exploited by local attackers to access […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2016
The Department of Justice says the FBI has broken into the iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooter, it no longer needs the help of Apple. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) announced it has broken into San Bernardino shooter‘s iPhone and it had accessed encrypted stored on the device. After a long battle between Apple and […]
