PayPal Freezes $275,000 Campaign Funds of Secure: ProtonMail, an End-to-End Encrypted email service developed by MIT, Harvard and CERN researchers, who already received over $275,000 from a crowdfunding campaigns to their PayPal account, and was so much excited to launch its beta version, but just before that PayPal freezes their account without any warning. “At this […]

Rogue Ad Hitting Gumtree Creates Distress Among Users: Recently, Gumtree, a site offering classified ads and with a large community around it, has been affected by a rogue ad that contained potentially malicious software. Upon trying to access the website, users would be warned by the defense mechanisms in the web browser that the page […]

Student Allegedly Hacks Apple Passbook for Free Flights: Air travel is expensive, and a savvy consumer will do everything in his or her power to save a little scratch. A Greek student claims he’s found the secret to affordable air travel: a simple iPhone hack that can fool any modern airport and get you a […]

What CBEST means for the industry and its customers: Following a summit held on Tuesday, hosted by the British Banker’s Association, the Bank of England announced a new framework to spot and test possible weak points at lenders in order to combat the growing problem of cyber hacking. By appointing cyber security as the main […]

US Grand Jury Indicts Chinese Army Officers for Cyber Espionage: The US government today took the unprecedented step of charging five officers in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) with 31 criminal counts of hacking and cyber espionage against six American companies. The indictment handed down by a grand jury in the Western District of […]

New Zero: Microsoft confirmed a new Zero Day critical vulnerability in its browser Internet Explorer. Flaw affects all versions of Internet Explorer, starting with IE version 6 and including IE version 11. In a Security Advisory (2963983) released yesterday, Microsoft acknowledges a zero-day Internet Explorer vulnerability (CVE-2014-1776) is being used in targeted attacks by APT groups, but […]

EBay Discovers Cyber Attack, Sees ‘No Evidence’ of Financial Data Breach: EBay said Wednesday it discovered a cyber attack against a corporate information network that contained encrypted passwords, but the e-commerce giant found “no evidence” any financial information was compromised. In a statement to FOX Business, spokesperson Kari Ramirez said the company is “taking every precaution” […]

Billions of Smartphone Users affected by Heartbleed Vulnerability: Heartbleed has left a worst impression worldwide affecting millions of websites and is also supposed to put millions of Smartphones and tablets users at a great risk. Heartbleed is a critical bug (CVE-2014-0160) in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library, that actually resides in the OpenSSL’s implementation […]

In questi giorni un gran numero di utenti stanno ricevendo un SMS inviato da CartaSi che li notifica di una transazione negata. Il fenomeno interessa tutti i correntisti la cui banca si appoggia a CartaSi per l’emissione della carta di credito sul circuito MasterCard. Gianluca Pericoli, CTO di ISGroup, azienda specializzata nella Sicurezza Informatica e delle […]

Persistent XSS in Top Website enables large: Incapsula firm discovered the exploitation of a persistent XSS vulnerability in one of the world most popular website to run a large scale DDoS attack. Recently Cloud-based security service provider Incapsula detected an application layer DDoS attack conducted hijacking a huge volume of traffic to victims website. The website of Incapsula […]