Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2016
The hacking crew Phantom Squad claims responsibility for an alleged DDoS attack that brought down the PlayStation Network. Around 13:00 EST on Monday, The PlayStation Network suffered a major outage worldwide, Sony early confirmed that the network was âexperiencing issuesâ and its status page showed that the problems were affecting all of its major services. Sony […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2016
Security experts from SCADA StrangeLove group disclosed SCADAPASS, a list of default credentials for ICS and SCADA systems. Recently I wrote about the SCADA StrangeLove research team reporting their study on the level of cyber security implemented in modern railroad systems . Now the SCADA StrangeLove group has published a list of default credentials, dubbed âSCADAPASS,â associated with industrial […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2016
The US Government issued a final rule implementing the Executive Order 13694. US can apply economic sanctions in response to cyber attacks. According to a final rule published in the Federal Register on the last day of 2015 (Dec. 31, 2015),  US can now apply economic sanctions in response to cyber attacks. The US Government assigned to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2016
The zero-day exploit broker Zerodium is offering up to $100,000 to security experts who can provide an exploit for bypassing the Flash heap isolation. Once again, the zero-day exploit trader Zerodium is in the headlines, this time the company is offering $100,000 for the Flash Exploit Mitigation bypass. Adobe announced in December the introduction of several Recently Adobe […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 05, 2016
Hackers cause power outage with the BlackEnergy malware in Ukraine. Is it an Information warfare act? Cyber security of ICS e SCADA systems in the critical infrastructure is essential, these components are a privileged target of cyber criminals and state sponsor hackers. The most popular SCADA attack in the history is the one conducted against control systems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 05, 2016
The popular security expert Brian Krebs has reviewed a dating scam package offered in the underground by Russians fraudsters. Russians fraudsters have automated the sale of plug-and-play online dating scam packages. As usual happens in these cases, these services are offered on underground websites specialised in online frauds,  crooks promise a response rate of 1.2 percent […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 05, 2016
The Prox Dynamicsâ PD-100 Black Hornet 2 is a tiny drone having the dimension of a flying insect and a lot of advanced features. Drones are privileged instruments of surveillance, we read about vehicles equipped with IR cameras or devices to spy on mobile devices. These vehicles are used by armies, intelligence and law enforcement agencies during their […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 05, 2016
Samsung Electronics has GAIA, a powerful and comprehensive three-layer security solution for protection of Tizen-based Smart TVs. Security experts have no doubts, IoT devices will be a privileged target for hackers, for this reason, security firm are designing solutions to mitigate cyber attacks against connected smart objects.Samsung is one of the company that is more […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 04, 2016
The Sony PlayStation Network is down, it is the first major issue suffered on a global scale in 2016.  Sony acknowledges the problems. The PlayStation Network is down worldwide. I’m just back home trying to play with my son when I had the ugly surprise. It is the first massive outage of the year, I searched […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 04, 2016
A second misconfigured database has been discovered by Chris Vickery containing data of US voters, including 19 million profiles with private information on religion, gun ownership and more. A couple of weeks ago Salted Hash reported on a sensational discovery made by the security expert Chris Vickery who found a misconfigured archive containing the personal […]
