Pierluigi Paganini
April 30, 2016
The Lansing Board of Water & Light (BWL) utility has had to shut down systems, phone lines in response to a ransomware-based attack. The Lansing Board of Water & Light (BWL) utility has had to shut down systems, phone lines in response to a ransomware-based attack. Another ransomware attack against a critical infrastructure is in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 29, 2016
Developers often ignore that they are exposing sensitive data when they publish code containing their Slack access tokens on GitHub. It was the year 2015, the month of March when Slack officially posted the following statement on their corporate blog: âthere was unauthorized access to a Slack database storing user profile information. We have since […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 29, 2016
Employee monitoring is a complex and controversial topic that can often become the source of discontent between employers and their staff. It is not a secret that most employees have a negative opinion about modern monitoring practices, such as PC monitoring. It is often viewed as an invasion of privacy and employer overstepping their authority. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 29, 2016
The US Supreme Court has approved amendments to Rule 41 that allows judges issue search warrants for hack into computers located worldwide. The US Supreme Court has approved amendments to Rule 41, which now let U.S. judges issue search warrants for hacking into computers located also outside their jurisdiction. Under the original Rule 41, a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 29, 2016
The OpenSSL Project yesterday announced that it plans to release will release on May 3 security patches for several vulnerabilities affecting the popular crypto library. The OpenSSL Project announced this week that it will release security patches for several vulnerabilities affecting the popular crypto library. The OpenSSL Project plans to release the patches on May 3, the list […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 29, 2016
The Air Force earlier this month announced the launch of its first cyberspace weapon system, the Air Force Intranet Control (AFINC). The Air Force continues to invest to increase its cyber capabilities and earlier this month announced the launch of its first cyberspace weapon system, code-named Air Force Intranet Control (AFINC). The Air Force Intranet […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 28, 2016
Security experts from Cisco Talos classified as a backdoor the popular Tuto4PC advertising software installed on a network of 12 Million computers. Security experts from Cisco Talos security intelligence and research team have spotted a malicious software that is installed on 12 million computers around the world. Most of the installations are located in the United […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 28, 2016
Matt Edman is the security expert and former employee of the Tor Project that helped the FBI to hack and de-anonymize Tor users developing the Torsploit. Matt Edman is the cyber security expert and former employee of the Tor Project that helped the FBIÂ to hack and de-anonymize Tor users in several court cases, including the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 28, 2016
Microsoft issued a detailed report on the activity of the hacking crew dubbed Platinum APT group that leveraged a Windows patching system in its attacks. The hacker crew discovered by Microsoft and dubbed Platinum APT group conducted cyber espionage against organizations in South and Southeast Asia leveraging a Windows patching system. According to Microsoft, the Platinum has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 28, 2016
A group cyber criminals created Ran$umBin, A Dark web service which operates the one-stop shop for monetizing ransomware. These days Ransomware are quite common and it is widespread and heavily used by cyber criminals as common tools to steal data as well as extort their owners. Few days back we had seen a new type of […]
