Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2016
A website on the clear web is offering for sale stolen card data from more than a million people worldwide including more than 100,000 Britons. According to a report published by The Times, the website Bestvalid.cc is offering for sale stolen credit and debit card details of 100,000 Britons. Banking details stolen from more than a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2016
According to Israel’s Channel 10 Iranian hackers succeeded in gaining access last year to the computer database of a retired Israeli army chief of staff. Many reports published by security firms warn of the increasing threat represented by Iranian hackers. US and Israeli organizations represent a privileged target for these hackers, last year they used stolen private pictures of IDF’s women […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 13, 2016
The British Intelligence Agency GCHQ has a license to hack computers and devices, the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) ruled. This means that the UK Government is giving full power to its intelligence agency to spy on Britons as well as people living abroad. The verdict was issued on Friday after Privacy International and seven ISPs […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 13, 2016
Experts at Trend Micro discovered strains of BlackEnergy malware involved in the recent attacks against Ukrainian Mining and Railway Systems. BlackEnergy was in the headlines when the security industry examined the power outage occurred in Ukraine in December 2015. The BlackEnergy malware is a threat improved to target SCADA systems, the latest variant includes the KillDisk component developed to wipe […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2016
UK Police and FBI have arrested a teenager suspected to be Cracka, the hacker who hacked the CIA Director John Brennan. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and British law enforcement have identified and arrested a teenage hacker alleged member of the hacking crew “Cracka with Attitude.” The Cracka with Attitude is the group of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2016
The FBI requests $38 Million to counter the threat of Going Dark, in particular asking more economic resources to break encryption when needed. The FBI Director James Comey has highlighted in different occasions the difficulties faced by law enforcement when dealing with encryption during their investigations. Now, the FBI is making its request for budget […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2016
Fraudsters operating on the AlphaBay darknet market have deployed a replica of the popular marketplace to steal login credentials from peers. Paul Mutton, security experts at Netcraft, discovered a fake version of the Alphabay Market (pwoah7foa6au2pul.onion), one of the most popular black markets hosted in the dark web. Paul Mutton speculates that fraudsters have deployed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2016
An interview with Troels Oerting on the cyber security in modern organizations and the importance of the role of the Chief Information Security Officer. The role of the chief information security officer (CISO) has profoundly changed over the years, from IT security management to high-level risk management. Today a CISO is a crucial figure in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2016
According to Fox News, the Director of National Intelligence confirmed to the Senate that the Islamic State has used chemical weapons. In December, a European Parliament report warned that the ISIS organization has already smuggled CBRN material into the EU, the risk of WMD attacks is real. The intelligence experts speculate the IS has recruited experts with chemistry, physics […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 11, 2016
The IRS detected roughly unauthorized attempts using 464,000 unique SSNs, and 101,000 attempts allowed crooks in generating PINs. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently confirmed that cyber criminals abused the Electronic Filing PIN application. The Electronic Filing PIN application is running on irs.gov and allows taxpayers to generate a PIN that they can use to file tax […]
