Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2017
Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks spotted a campaign leveraging Microsoft Office loader using malicious macros to drop multiple malware families. The researchers analyzed more than 650 unique samples of this specific loader since early December 2016, accounting for 12,000 phishing email targeting numerous industries. Most affected industries are High Tech, Professional and Legal Services, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 13, 2017
Britain’s security has been threatened by 188 major cyber attacks in the last three months, according to the head of the National Cyber Security Centre. According to the head of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the UK government suffered at least 188 major cyber attacks in the past three months. Ciaran Martin, former GCHQ cybersecurity chief, told The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 13, 2017
According to security experts from Symantec and BAE Systems, the recently discovered attacks aimed at Poland banks are linked to the Lazarus Group. Last week, several Polish banks confirmed their systems were infected with a malware after their staff visited the site of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority. The cyber attack was first reported by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 13, 2017
Crooks exploiting Word documents laced with malicious macros to compromise Apple Mac systems exactly in the same way they do with Microsoft machines. It’s amazing the number of Apple Mac users that tell me their systems are immune from malware. This false sense of security is very dangerous and I believe it is important to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 13, 2017
Starting from June 1st search engine companies will block queries to links to pirated content, including films, TV shows, and copyright-protected content. It will be even more difficult to search for torrents of ExtraTorrent, KickassTorrents, The Pirate Bay and equivalent services. In the past copyright holders accused the search engine companies of doing too little to ban infringing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2017
A new serious denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability was patched this week by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) in the BIND DNS software. A security serious denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-3135, was patched this week by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) in the BIND DNS software. The vulnerability in the BIND DNS software was reported by Ramesh Damodaran and Aliaksandr Shubnik of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2017
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 Anonymous hacked Freedom Hosting II, a fifth of the Dark Web is down Security Affairs newsletter Round […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2017
Prosecutors confirmed that the failed cyber attack on Brussels airport a few hours after 2016 bombings was launched by a US minor. Prosecutors confirmed that the failed cyber attack on Brussels airport a few hours after dramatic 2016 bombings in Belgium’s capital was launched by a US minor. On March 2016, suicide bombers attacked Zaventem […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2017
According to the Russian forensic firm Elcomsoft the Apple iCloud saved deleted Safari browsing history over the years open the door to surveillance. According to digital forensics firm Elcomsof, Apple iCloud maintained deleted internet Safari browsing history over the years. The experts at Elcomsof discovered the issue while trying to extract records from iCloud accounts, they were able to retrieve supposedly deleted Safari browser […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 11, 2017
Sports Direct, the UK’s largest sports retail business, was hacked last year, and still hasn’t disclosed the incident to its staff. The Register confirmed that the Sports Direct, the UK’s largest sports retail business, was hacked last year, and still hasn’t disclosed the incident to its staff. In the autumn a hacker broke into the internal systems […]
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