Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2013
A new version of the popular black market Silk Road has been launched, the greatest illegal marketplace on Tor network has risen again. The Silk Road is up again, the biggest black market of the Tor network came online on Wednesday. Silk Road was seized by the FBI last October, law enforcement has also identified […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 07, 2013
Intelligence Ian Malloy has discovered an hidden variant of the popular Zeus banking trojan in the GreatestArcadeHits servers. GreatestArcadeHits.* serves up more than entertainment, in fact they don’t serve up entertainment at all. Hidden in the application is the infamous ZEUS/ZBOT, a banking trojan that has the capacity to spoof online banking sites to steal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 07, 2013
Security experts at Securi firm have recently detected a series of SQL Injection attacks conducted abusing of the Google Bot activity. The exploitation of search engines like Google and Bing to conduct an attack represents an optimal choice for hackers that intend to stay hidden during the offensive. No IT administrator would block traffic from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 05, 2013
The professional social network LinkedIn is a mine of information for any king of attackers, a Websense post described a typical attack scenario. Recently I read an interesting post published on the Websense security labs blog on the use of social network LinkedIn for the reconnaissance phase of an attack. The concept is not […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2013
The post is an intro to Cyberbullying concept and proposes an interesting infograph to better understand the entity of the forms of cyber harassment. Cyberbullying is the use of the Internet and any other technology to harm or harass other people, in a deliberate, repeated, and hostile manner. Unfortunately this phenomena are in constant increase, in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2013
Finland’s foreign minister announced that foreign intelligence agents had carried out large-scale cyber espionage into government communications. The Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affair networks has been targeted in a cyber espionage operation lasting at least four years, the news has been reported by the Finnish commercial broadcaster MTV3. Finland’s foreign minister Erkki Tuomioja confirmed the shocking news, a large […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 01, 2013
OpNSA analyzed with OSINT techniques based on the correlation of media activities and physical protests. The analysts provided a forecast on next attacks. Web Intelligence analysis alerts on early signs of an Anonymous cyber campaign dubbed OpNSA that as usual will address with DDoS attack principal US Government websites. Security experts don’t exclude the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 01, 2013
A misleading script to increase the number of “I like” and an invasive technology to track screen cursors are threatening the Facebook users. The social media are money machines, the interest of private companies, governments and cybercrime are increasing exponentially. Security experts are observing an alarming trend, a growing number of subjects are spending a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 31, 2013
Prolexic DDoS Attack Report reveals an increasing interest of cybercrime in Distributed Reflection Denial of Service technique, efficient and cost-effective. Prolexic Quarterly Global DDoS Attack Report revealed an increasing interest of cybercrime in Distributed Reflection Denial of Service technique (DNS reflection DDoS attack aka or DrDoS) and for this reason the company specialized in DDoS […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 29, 2013
The hack of a social media account is a common incident that could have a serious impact of our digital identity. How to prevent it? What to do in case of hack? Social media, cloud computing and mobile are technologies that most of all attract cybercriminals due their high penetration, exploiting this channels attackers could […]
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