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Pierluigi Paganini September 27, 2015
Cyber attack overall cost suffered last year by businesses is $315b

A recent survey conducted by Grant Thornton global revealed that one in six businesses have experienced a cyber attack in the past twelve months. It is always interesting to report findings of studies related to the impact of the cybercrime worldwide, today I want to present you the results of the research conducted by the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 27, 2015
Security Affairs newsletter Round 28 – Best of the week from best sources

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. AVG will sell user’s personal data to third-parties A string could be used to crash Google Chrome Pentagon on manual mission to build nation-wide security database Tech finds 1.5M […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 27, 2015
Aerospace Probes released to stratosphere for spying weapons

A group of hackers is launching aerospace probes in the aim of spying on governments and organizations by collecting signals in the stratosphere. A group of techies has recently created and tested an aerospace probe, so as to help gather a lot of data deriving from communication, leading to a whole new concept of how […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 27, 2015
Cisco released a tool to scan for SYNful_Knock implants

Talos has developed a Python script for customers to scan their own network to identify routers that may have been compromised by the SYNful_Knock hack. A couple of weeks ago I published the news of the SYNful_knock security issue involving CISCO routers. CISCO issued an alert to warn enterprise customers about a spike in attacks in which hackers use […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 26, 2015
The recent iOS 9.0.1 Update fails to fix the Lock screen Bypass flaw

Apple recently released its first update to the new iOS 9, but experts noticed that it doesn’t fix the lock screen bypass vulnerability. Apple has already released its first update for the release iOS, the version iOS 9.0.1 was issued last week to fix a number of bugs. Last week Jose Rodriguez reported the lock screen bypass vulnerability affecting […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 26, 2015
Card Breach at Hilton Hotel Properties Under Investigation

Hilton Worldwide has issued an official statement informing its customers that the alleged data breach is currently under investigation. As reported by Brian Krebs of Krebs on Security, several sources are claiming that Point-of-Sale (PoS) registers utilized by several businesses operating within a large quantity of Hilton Hotel and franchise properties across the United States. These claims result from the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 26, 2015
Karma Police, how GCHQ tried to track every visible user on Internet

A new collection of GCHQ’s documents published by The Intercept reveals how the British Agency tried to track Web visits of “every visible user on Internet” A new revelation made by The Intercept confirms that the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has conducted  a massive online surveillance starting from the 2007. The documents accessed by The Intercept detailed an operation […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2015
GreenDispenser, is the last ATM Malware in the wild

The last threat discovered by security experts at Proofpoint is “GreenDispenser,” a malware that presents many similarities with the Tyupkin malware. The use of malicious code to hack ATM is even more common in the criminal ecosystem, in the past security experts have discovered several strain of malware that was designed with this intent. ATM […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2015
The US military is still sending un-encrypted emails

The MotherBoard news website recently published an interesting analysis on how the US Military Fails to Protect its Soldiers’ Emails, how is it possible? After the Edward Snowden case blown up in the US Government face, the US decided to create a task force to encrypt all that can, urging the adoption of HTTPS for […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2015
Lenovo caught with pre-installed tracking application for the third time

Michael Horowitz from Computerworld discovered an application called “Lenovo Customer Feedback Program 64,” which is used to gather customers feedback data. Once, two, three … this is the third time that security experts discover a spyware pre-installed on Lenovo laptops and workstations, and also in this case without the knowledge of its millions of users. […]