According to a new report the popular Naikon APT group is actually backed by China’s PLA Unit 78020, a firm traced it through online activity. Ge Xing, also known as “GreenSky27,” is the name of an alleged member of the People’s Liberation Army unit 78020, a group of Chinese state-sponsored hackers. The man was identified […]
Rumors on the Internet are linking the attack based in XcodeGhost to operations conducted by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). A few days ago principal security firm reported the first major cyber attack on the official Apple App Store, thousands of legitimate applications were infected by the XCodeGhost Malware. Apple announced it is cleaning up the […]
Trend Micro published a report that explains the dynamics triggered by data breaches, following data from the incidents to their offer in the Dark Web. Trend Micro published a report that explains the dynamics triggered by data breaches, following data from the incidents to their offer in the Dark Web. Stolen data is a precious commodity […]
How does this privacy apply to cybersecurity? The rule of the cyberlaw in the protection of cyber vendor services against the risk of litigation exposure. In most countries and most legal systems, the sanctity of the attorney client relationship is guarded by the courts. Without confidentiality and privacy, the system of law can break down […]
According to the a statement by OPM Press Secretary Sam Schumach on Background Investigations Incident OPM breach included 5.6 Million Fingerprints. The press secretary of the Office of Personnel Management, Sam Schumach, announced that the data breach suffered by the OPM exposed approximately 5.6 million sets of fingerprints belonging to federal employees, contractors, and other members of the staff. In […]
The Indian Government plans to release the new National Encryption Policy, a law that seems to be one of the big threat to the Internet freedom. A new problem is worrying the Indian friends, the Government plans to release a new policy, National Encryption Policy’ that seems to presage disappointments for users. Among ugly and questionable issues […]
The popular expert John McAfee claims passengers with four Chinese airlines are spied with the IMSI-catchers technology by the Government of Beijing. The former owner of McAfee security firm, John McAfee was always known to have made some controversial comments in the IT industry, but also to have good sources that let him get precious […]
Recently a serious vulnerability was discovered in the Imgur service that allowed the injection of malicious code into an image link on the popular website. Is your website popular? Great you are a privileged target for crooks, just yesterday I reported the last malvertising campaign that hit Forbes and today I decide to present a […]
Zerodium is an Exploit trader and it’s offering a million dollar prize to any person that finds zero-day flaws in iOS 9, and you can imagine the motivation. Zerodium is an Exploit trader and it’s offering a million dollar prize to any person that finds unknown, unpatched bug in iOS 9 with the main purpose to […]
Researchers from Citizen Lab and German security firm Cure53 analyzed the Govt child monitoring app Smart Sheriff discovered that it is full of bugs. It’s curious, thinking to a child monitoring app you imagine a solution that can protect your children, instead the situation could be really different. Researchers with the Canadian watchdog group Citizen Lab have […]