Pierluigi Paganini
April 04, 2016
The German Intelligence Agency BND has intercepted the Office of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu among others. According to the German weekly Der Spiegel, the German intelligence Agency BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst) has reportedly been spying on Israel for years. The Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Office is one of the main targets of the espionage activity, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 03, 2016
Two of security researchers have shown how hackers can target connected lightbulbs to exfiltrate sensitive data from Air-Gapped networks. Two of security researchers from the Weizmann Institute have shown how hackers can target connected lightbulbs to steal sensitive data from Air-Gapped networks. The two researchers are Adi Shamir, the popular co-inventor of the RSA algorithm, and PHD student […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 03, 2016
Experts at CloudFlare revealed that 94 percent of the Tor traffic they see is “per se malicious,” but Tor Project opposes it. The experts from the Content delivery network (CDN) CloudFlare revealed that 94 percent of the Tor traffic they ordinary see is “malicious.” It is not a mystery that Tor is becoming a favored tool of cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 03, 2016
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs PETYA ransomware overwrites MBR causing a blue screen of death VNC Roulette, a web roulette for random easy to hack PCs Security Affairs newsletter Round 53 – News of the week Remotely Exploitable Flaw in Truecaller Leaves […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 02, 2016
Officials confirmed that the Hungarian government website came under attack from outside the country. The access to many websites was blocked. The Hungarian Government announced that its computer network was targeted by a major cyber attack that temporarily blocked the access to several websites. The attacks hit the main Hungarian government website and many other sites, including […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 02, 2016
For the first time in a decade, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has updated its secure email guide. The last effort of the NIST Agency in the development of email security guidelines is dated 2007 when it published the  NIST SP 800-45, Version 2 – Guidelines on Electronic Mail Security. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 02, 2016
The best way to address a threat is to know it so security experts at F-Secure shared a detailed analysis on the new Petya ransomware. Several days ago, I wrote about a new singular Ransomware dubbed Petya that captured the attention of security experts because it causes a blue screen of death (BSoD) by overwriting the MBR. Now […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 02, 2016
Experts from Trend Micro have discovered a serious flaw in HID door controllers that could be remotely exploited by hackers to open the doors. Security experts at Trend Micro have discovered a serious flaw in door controllers developed by the HID access control systems manufacturer that could be exploited by hackers to send one malicious UDP request to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 01, 2016
A Columbian hacker claims he helped the candidate Enrique Peña Nieto in winning the Mexican presidential election in 2012. Until now we have seen something of similar only in the TV series, but the reality could overwhelm the fiction because a Columbian hacker claims he helped Enrique Peña Nieto in winning Mexican presidential election. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 01, 2016
Kaspersky has analyzed the interaction between the Russian and Brazilian criminal underground communities revealing a dangerous interaction. In the past weeks, we have analyzed the evolution of cyber criminal communities worldwide, focusing on illicit activities in the Deep Web. To simplify the approach we have considered the principal cyber criminal communities (Russia, Brazil, North America, Japan, China, Germany) as separated entities, instead, these ecosystems interact […]
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