Pierluigi Paganini
November 14, 2016
On November 7, Southern Ohioâs Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) arrested Aaron Travis Daniels, of Ohio, on terror-related charges as he was attempting to travel to Libya to become an ISIS fighter. Daniels, age 20, who goes by the aliases Harun Muhammad and Abu Yusef, had allegedly âcommunicated his commitment to violent overseas jihadâ in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2016
The company that owns AdultFriendFinder and other adult websites has been hacked, data breach exposes 412 million accounts making this the largest 2016 hack Almost every account password was cracked, thanks to the company’s poor security practices. Even “deleted” accounts were found in the breach. A new massive data breach is in the headlines, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2016
BlackNurse attack allows to power massive DDoS attacks that are able to knock large servers offline with limited resources. Researchers discovered a simple method, called BlackNurse attack, to power massive DDoS attacks that could allow lone attackers to knock large servers offline with limited resources. “This attack is not based on pure flooding of the internet connection, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2016
Earlier this week, Donald Trump won a stunning election victory that will put him in charge of the worldâs most powerful mass surveillance infrastructure. Regardless of which side of the political spectrum you are on, Trumpâs control over the NSA is now an indisputable fact, and we think it is worth taking a closer look […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2016
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. First of all, let me inform you that at the #infosec16 SecurityAffairs was awarded as The Best European Personal Security Blog http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/48202/breaking-news/securityaffairs-best-european-personal-security-blog.html THANK YOU! Commercial Exaspy spyware used to target high-level executives Watch out! A new LinkedIn Phishing campaign […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2016
The Pawn Storm APT group exploited some zero-days vulnerabilities in targeted attacks across the world before they get patched. The Pawn Storm APT group, also known as APT28 and Fancy Bear, exploited some zero-days flaw in targeted attacks before they get patched. The threat actors powered spear phishing attacks between the discovery of the zero-days […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2016
Job-related information belonging to hundreds of thousands of individuals in a Michael Page database was exposed online by Capgemini. The firm Capgemini has inadvertently published a database of the Michael Page company, a company owned by PageGroup and specialized in recruiting. The data leak has accidentally exposed job-related records of hundreds of thousands of individuals. Michael Page has notified […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2016
Facebook users who logged on to their accounts discovered that their accounts turned to a “memorialized account,” due to their alleged death. Funny as it is disturbing, but the technology can also do this and this time it has happened to Facebook. This night the Tech giant declared everyone dead due to a glitch. The memorial […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2016
At PwnFest 2016, hackers compromised Windows 10âs Microsoft Edge web browser in just 18 seconds and devised the first attack on VMware Workstation 12.5.1. This week, at the PwnFest 2016 contest held at the Power of Community security conference in Seoul, hackers compromised Microsoft Edge operating on Windows 10 Red Stone 1 and for the first […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2016
Cozy Bear launched new spear-phishing attacks against US policy think-tanks aiming to infect their systems with a malware. Trump is the new US President, a few hours after he won the election, a hacking crew powered several spear-phishing attacks against US policy think-tanks aiming to infect their systems with a malware. The security experts believe […]
