Pierluigi Paganini
September 27, 2013
Kaspersky Lab discovered the emerging group of cyber-mercenaries Icefog available for hire to perform surgical hit and run operations against strategic targets. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab sustain to have identifies a group of cyber mercenaries called Icefog that is responsible for a huge cyber espionage campaign, occurred in 2011, against Japanese parliament and dozens of government agencies and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 26, 2013
Thousands of WordPress based websites have been hacked to compose a global scale botnet that is performing powerful DDOS attacks. I start the post with recommendations, if you are a blogger using WordPress don’t waste time and update it and all installed plugins to the latest versions! Have you done it? OK, now I can explain you what it is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 22, 2013
ENISA Threat Landscape Mid year 2013 presents top cyber threats, anticipating its interim Threat Landscape 2013 report. The study reveals concerning trends. ENISA published a new report titled ENISA Threat Landscape Mid year 2013 that provides an interesting update for the list of top cyber threats. The scope of the ENISA Threat Landscape Mid year 2013 is to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 21, 2013
Africa is becoming even more an “online continent” despite its economical difficulties, in the same time there is a growing incidence of cybercrime. A report released recently about the escalating cases of cybercrime by the Symantec security company revealed that whereas the most prevalent type of attacks are mobile phone users are now becoming more vulnerable to attacks by cybercriminals followed by computer […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2013
It is very easy to hack the Nasdaq according the security expert Kolochenko that reported numerous vulnerabilities in the official website of the exchange. Just 10 minutes could be sufficient for an attacker to hack the Nasdaq Stock Market, this is the alert provided by Ilia Kolochenko, head of Swiss information security company High-Tech Bridge. The security expert […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2013
In an Irish court the FBI Supervisory Special Agent Donahue revealed that FBI had control of the Freedom Hosting company to investigate on child pornography. FBI admitted publicly that the Bureau had compromised the Freedom Hosting, probably the most popular Tor hidden service operator company. The news confirms the suspects raised after that a group of Security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 14, 2013
A researcher at Malwarebytes has discovered that a Russian hacker recently released an Android Firefox Zero-Day exploits on the underground. A new Android Firefox Zero-Day Exploit is available on the underground market for sale, a Russian exploit writer known as “fil9” has proposed it in the open exploit market with a starting price of $460. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 13, 2013
Africa ’s banking industry, tourism sector and plenty of other businesses are prone to cyber-related crime hence the urgent need to develop a defense system A good number of stakeholders and Internet Service Providers in Africa warned for the last two years that Africa’s banking industry, tourism sector and plenty of other businesses are prone […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 12, 2013
Imperva security researchers observed Web attacks involving PHP SuperGlobal variables are gaining popularity within the hacking community. Security researchers sounded the alarm for the possible abuse of PHP SuperGlobal variables by attackers, it is very frequent to read on PHP application that are hacked cyber cybercriminals. Security experts from Imperva sustains that PHP applications are vulnerable due the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 11, 2013
After months of investigation security researchers from Kaspersky have detected a new cyber espionage campaign dubbed Kimsuky that targeted South Korean organizations. Kaspersky experts have discovered a new cyber espionage campaign dubbed Kimsuky due the names “kim” used by hackers for drop box email accounts during in the attacks. “It’s interesting that the drop box […]
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