Pierluigi Paganini
July 30, 2014
Android devices are affected by a critical vulnerability which allows a malicious app to impersonate a trusted application inheriting its permissions. Researchers at Bluebox Security have discovered a critical vulnerability in millions of Android devices that allow a malicious app to impersonate a trusted application in a stealthy way, allowing a bad actor an attacker to perform different malicious actions. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 25, 2014
Security experts at Incapsula are observing a surge in the used of fake Googlebots to launch and carry out application-layer DDoS. Googlebots crawl websites are the software used to index and rank the content of websites for the popular search engine. It’s not a mystery that the visits of Googlebots are not considered a possible indicator […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 16, 2014
Project Zero is the new initiative announced by Google. The company is hiring the top security experts to make the Internet a more secure place. Google has publicly announced a new program called âProject Zero,â an ambitious project which involves a team of Star Hackers and Bug Hunters with the purpose to improve security of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 12, 2014
Security experts at Lacoon discovered a vulnerability in the Gmail iOS app which enables a bad actor to perform a Man-in-the-Middle. Google Gmail application for iOS is exposed to risks of  Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks which allow bad actors to monitor encrypted email communications. An expert at mobile security firm Lacoon has discovered that version of Gmail […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 10, 2014
Google Security experts have detected and blocked unauthorized digital certificates for a number of its domains issued by the NIC of India. Google announced to have blocked unauthorized digital certificates for different of its domains issued by the National Informatics Centre of India, which holds several intermediate CA certificates trusted by the Indian Controller of Certifying Authorities (India CCA). […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2014
A review in the organization of app permissions made by Google could allow malicious apps to silently gain further permissions on the victim’s device. Google has recently made a significant change to the management process for permissions on Android devices, unfortunately security experts noticed that the change could advantage bad actors that intend to conduct attacks against the mobile […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 12, 2014
An Israeli researcher disclosed a Gmail vulnerability, fixed by Google, that exposes an indefinite number of Gmail addresses and business emails. Google company has fixed a critical vulnerability, disclosed by the Israeli researcher Oren Hafif,  that exposes an indefinite number of Gmail addresses. Technically the experts has discovered that it is possible to bruteforce a token […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 15, 2014
Security experts at Bitdefender discovered a new ingenious phishing scheme that is being used by hackers to steal Google Account credentials. Security experts at Bitdefender have discovered a news phishing scheme adopted by hackers to steal Google Account passwords. The new phishing attack is hard to catch with traditional heuristic detection, it mainly affects Google Chrome and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2014
Al Jazeera obtained the emails exchanged between Google executives and former NSA director Alexander which suggest that Google is very close to NSA. The IT Giants Apple, Google and Microsoft always denied any involvement in the surveillance program despite Edward Snowden as produced different documents attesting to the inconvenient truth. Now a new event is shocking the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 03, 2014
Covert Redirect vulnerability is the security flaw in the open standards for authorization OAuth and OpenID that is menacing IT industry. Another security flaw in the open standards for authorization OAuth and OpenID is scaring IT industry. Just a few weeks after the disclosure of the Heartbleed vulnerability, another major flaw was discovered in the open […]
