Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2015
The hacker Shm00p claims he served as an FBI informant and helped the US law enforcement track down the hacker turned ISIS fighter Junaid Hussain. When dealing with ISIS and cyber capabilities, the first name that experts cite is Junaid Hussain, the hacker that was killed in a targeted US drone strike in August this year.Now new details on Junaid Hussain […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2015
ModPOS is new POS malware discovered in systems of US retailers after the rush of Thanksgiving and experts speculate it is the most complex POS malware ever seen. A new POS malware was discovered in US retailers, after the rush of Thanksgiving, and it looks like millions of US bank cards were affected. The new […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2015
Dell is in the headlines for shipping PCs with a pre-installed trusted root certificate dubbed eDellRoot that opens users to a number of cyber attacks. Dell is in the headlines for shipping PCs with a pre-installed trusted root certificate that opens users to a number of cyber attacks. Hackers could exploit it to compromise the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2015
Newly disclosed documents show that the NSA had found a way to continue spying on American citizens’ email traffic from overseas. The NSA continued to spy on the email messages of Americans, once again the US government has conducted a massive surveillance on the US soil. To curb internal law the US intelligence has is used […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2015
A new security audit the TrueCrypt software confirmed that even if it is plagued by some vulnerabilities, the application is effective when it comes to protecting data. TrueCrypt, secure or insecure … that is the question. A group of Ten auditors from the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology has conducted a six-month audit of TrueCrypt […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2015
Security researchers at Damballa Willis McDonald and Loucif Kharouni have conducted a deep analysis of the Destover malware used in the Sony Pictures attack. Security researchers at Damballa Willis McDonald and Loucif Kharouni have conducted a deep analysis of the wiper used by threat actors in the Sony Pictures hack. The experts discovered that attackers used a highly sophisticated disk-cleaning […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2015
“Want to keep using the pacemaker? “” pay us 2 bitcoins” Experts fear that ransomware will start targeting medical devices. Technology has a huge role in our lives, we depend on it even more, including our smartwatch and also our medical device. Unfortunately, we usually forgot that even our medical devices, the ones they help […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2015
According to Kaspersky Lab, bad actors in the Russian underground have stolen more than $790 Million over 3 years, from 2012 to 2015. According to the experts at Kaspersky Lab, Russian criminal rings have stole roughly $790 Million over 3 years (from 2012 to 2015), more than $500 million of that is from victims located outside the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2015
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. Russia has a new anti wiretapping System Did terrorists use PlayStation 4 for communications in Paris attacks? Anonymous announced #OpParis against the ISIS in response to the Paris […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2015
Police body cameras sold by Martel Electronics have been found to be infected with the notorious Conficker worm. Security experts at iPower Technologies while analyzing the body cam designed for police departments manufactured by Martel Electronics, discovered that the cameras were infected. Martel Electronics is US company that design video systems used by law enforcement, including […]
