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 […]
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 […]
Ukrainian Government is accusing Russia of organizing hacker attacks against the Boryspil airport’s networks. Cyber security experts of the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine are blaming Russian hackers for a new cyber attack against the Boryspil airport’s networks. Presidential Administration’s spokesman for ATO Andriy Lysenko (ATO), explained that the systems at […]
At the recent ShmooCon conference a researcher presented a LastPass phishing attack that could allow hackers to steal your password. We discussed several times the importance of password managers such as LastPass, but sometimes hackers could exploit them to launch their attacks. The security researcher Sean Cassidy has presented on Saturday at the ShmooCon hacker conference […]
It has been fixed the OpenSSH vulnerability that can be exploited to steal crypto keys from vulnerable clients. Recently a critical vulnerability in OpenSSH has been fixed, the flaw can leak secret cryptographic keys. The flaw affects end users version of OpenSSH and not server side implementations. Many experts compared the effects of this flaw to the […]
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs The FBI used the NIT to de-anonymize thousand Pedos on Tor Why PS4 is not so secure for the ISIS membersâ communication? Russian Army is largely investing in modern UAVs Juniper will drop a function alleged developed […]
Lights and shadows of the cyber defence market that will reach 170 billion in 2020 becoming vital to the global economy. Cyber defence industry is making money. In 2015, the market will reach 75 billion and in 2020 it will grow to around 170 billion. For some countries like the US, Israel, India and Europe, […]
A study conducted by TripWire over the past year revealed successful cyber attacks on the energy industry increased as never before. US oil and gas companies are under attack, over 80% of them have reported a significant increase in the number of cyber attacks. According to Tripwire, over the past year successful cyber attacks have increased […]
Mike Hearn explains that the fundamentals are broken and the price the long term trend should probably be downwards. Mike Hearn, a senior Bitcoin developer explained the failure of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency as experiment and announced he has stopped working on it and sold his coins. Hearn blamed the community for the failure, according to the […]
A man has found a 30-gigabyte hard drive at a recycling depot in Halifax containing at least 10 GB Canadian military data. According to the Canadian CBC, a man named Pete Stevens has found a 30-gigabyte hard drive at a recycling depot in Halifax. The media support contains personal information including the names and numbers of defence […]