Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2015
Microsoft has issued an advisory to notify customers that the private keys for an SSL/TLS digital certificate for *xboxlive.com have been disclosed. According to a security advisory published by Microsoft, the company is propagating a new certificate for the *.xboxlive.com domain because it has âinadvertently disclosedâ the certificate’s contents. Microsoft confirmed the accidental disclosure of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 04, 2015
The Government of the Kazakhstan makes it mandatory for its citizens to install rogue security certificates to monitor them online. The Government of the Kazakhstan plans to implement a new internet control policy for all the population starting from January 1st 2016, and to accomplish that will order the population to install some rogue security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2015
Dell is in the headlines for shipping PCs with a pre-installed trusted root certificate dubbed eDellRoot that opens users to a number of cyber attacks. Dell is in the headlines for shipping PCs with a pre-installed trusted root certificate that opens users to a number of cyber attacks. Hackers could exploit it to compromise the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2015
A duo of security researchers, Daniel Komaromy of San Francisco and Nico Golde of Berlin, demonstrated how to intercept calls using bogus base stations. PacSec Modern Samsung devices, including the last generation Samsung S6, S6 Edge and Note 4, are vulnerable to phone eavesdropping. A duo of experts, Daniel Komaromy of San Francisco and Nico […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2015
More than 600 million Samsung S devices could be opened to cyber attacks because a flaw in the validation of language pack updates for the SwiftKey keyboard. More than 600 million Samsung smartphones could be opened to cyber attack due to the presence of a security flaw in the validation of the  Swiftkey language pack updates. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 12, 2015
A joint international operation led to the dismantling of a criminal gang who is behind the Operation Triangle phishing campaign. A joint effort of Law enforcement from six countries, including Italy, Spain, Poland,Belgium, the U.K., and Georgia, allowed the arrest of 49 suspects fraudsters. Twenty individuals were arrested in Italy, 10 in Spain, 18 in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 14, 2015
The Redirect to SMB vulnerability affects all supported versions of Windows and could be exploited to steal usersâ credentials for various services. Experts at Cylance have discovered a new credential hijacking vulnerability dubbed Redirect to SMB that affects all versions of Windows OSs, including the upcoming Windows 10. The Redirect to SMB could be exploited by an attacker […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 11, 2015
Researchers uncovered the Great Cannon, a powerful hacking tool, used by the Chinese Government to run MITM attacks, that was used also against GitHub. The researchers from the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Toronto have uncovered a powerful weapon of the Chinese Government cyber arsenal, dubbed the Great Cannon, used to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 11, 2015
Microsoft and Apple released security updates to fix the FREAK vulnerability recently discovered and affecting their products. FREAK is a major security flaw recently discovered that left users of Apple and Google devices exposed to MITM attack while visiting supposedly secure Websites. At the same time Microsoft issued a specific security advisory to inform its […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 07, 2015
Researchers hack NSAâs website with only $104 and 8 hours of Amazonâs cloud computing power using the #FREAK vulnerability A team of researchers demonstrated that it is possible to exploit the FREAK vulnerability to hack the official NSA website by using 8 hours of Amazonâs cloud computing power and spending only $104. The researcher made […]
