Pierluigi Paganini
January 20, 2016
Federal security officials fear that attacks on fiber optic systems in the Bay Area may pose a threat to Super Bowl 50 A security memo issued by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security is warning of the dangers of a high-tech attack against crowds at the next Super Bowl 50. The event will be held in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 20, 2016
Dr Web discovered a new Malware dubbed Linux.Ekoms.1 designed to target Linux systems and takes screenshots every 30 seconds. Security experts at antivirus company Dr. Web have discovered a new Trojan dubbed Linux.Ekoms.1 designed to target Linux systems. The malware could be used to spy on the victims, it takes screenshots every 30 seconds and saves them […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2016
Security researchers at startup Perception Point discovered a serious vulnerability (CVE-2016-0728) affecting the Linux kernel. A Linux kernel vulnerability, coded as CVE-2016-0728, affecting versions 3.8 and higher will be fixed today. According to researchers at startup Perception Point who discovered the vulnerability, the flaw affects the Linux Kernel since 2012. The flaw has impacted more than tens […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2016
A new archive containing alleged voting records of millions of US citizens is available on a hidden service on the dark web. Joseph Fox from Motherboard discovered alleged voting records of millions of American citizens on a website in the dark web. The data were published on a website linked to a notorious cybercrime forum, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2016
A new variant of the infamous Tinba banking trojan has emerged in the wild and is targeting financial institutions in the Asia Pacific region. Even small threats can scare the giants, this is the case of Tinba, a small malware that continues to create serious problems for financial institutions. Tinba is a popular financial trojan, the fifth version is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2016
An investigation conducted by The Motherboard demonstrates that is quite easy to buy Surveillance Equipment avoiding export restrictions. Recently I wrote a post titled “Cellphone Surveillance: The Secret Arsenal” that includes interesting information about the principal cellphone surveillance equipment available on the market. This equipment is reserved in the majority of cases for a military or law enforcement usage, but […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2016
National Security Agency says the US Govt surveillance programme for collecting domestic telephone records rmeets security standards The United States government’s updated spying program for gathering native people’ phone records has passed the muster as far as civil and privacy principles, the NSA (National Security Agency) claims. The new structure, which was executed in November […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2016
The FBI raided another the second home in Chicago to arrest the second alleged culprit in the Fappening hack Investigation. In 2014 an unknown hacker leaked online nude pictures of celebrities, including the popular and Kate Upton. We are speaking about the case known as The Fappening, the hacker took over a large number of Apple iCloud accounts, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2016
A collection of interesting info about the Stuxnet attack published years ago by The New York Times, a must-read for experts. The popular cyber security expert Mikko Hypponen has retwitted an old blog post on the Stuxnet malware, a good opportunity to summarize the events and understand what is happened behind the scene. In 2011, The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2016
The Las Vegas Casino firm Affinity Gaming sued Trustwave for allegedly failing a data breach investigation, but Trustwave denies any wrongdoing. Affinity Gaming, a casino operator operating five casinos in Nevada, and six in other locations in the US, has sued the It security company Trustwave for a “bad” investigation, after a network breach it […]
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