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Pierluigi Paganini October 28, 2013

Syrian Electronic Army hacked President Obama website and social media

Syrian Electronic Army Targeted President Obama’s website, Twitter and Facebook accounts and email account linked to his non-profit activities. Once again Syrian Electronic Army, the pro-Assad group claims it has hacked the President Barack Obama’s website, the social media accounts belonging to him on Twitter and Facebook and it violated the email accounts linked to […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 28, 2013

Israel – AP Exclusive reveals tunnel hit by cyber attack

Cybersecurity experts revealed that a major artery in Israel’s national road network located in the northern the city of Haifa suffered a cyber attack. Israel is considered one of the most advanced country in cyber security, but at the same time is a privileged target for hostile governments intent in sabotage and cyber espionage on […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2013

Subcontractors are for hackers the weakest link in security chain

Hackers use to target subcontractors to hit big enterprises due the poor level of security they offer, in the energy sector this trend is very concerning. Let’s follow the discussion on the hacking world and the way hackers impact business with their activities. We discussed about the role of hackers for companies and their employment […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2013

PHP.net compromised and redirecting to Magnitude exploit kit

Google detected a malware on PHP.net website, the internal team confirmed that the website was compromised and redirecting to a Magnitude exploit kit. php.net website was serving malware, the alert was launched by Google’s Safe Browsing service that alerted internet users. Subsequent investigation confirmed that some of the project’s servers did get compromised, attackers succeeded to infect […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 24, 2013

Cyber Threat summit 2013 – Modern online-banking cybercrime

“Modern online-banking cybercrime” -The presentation analyzes current context for cybersecurity in Banking focusing on cyber threats and countermeasures. Today I presented at Cyber Threat Summit 2013 the topic “Modern online-banking cybercrime“, the presentation analyzes current context for cybersecurity in Banking focusing on cyber threats and countermeasures. The agenda is: Intro Phishing attacks Malware Based Attacks […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 23, 2013

Hackers in the service of cybercrime, a concerning trend

Hackers are becoming a precious category of professionals also for organized crime, their effort is creating even more problems for law enforcement. A hacker illegally gained access to 60,000 servers worldwide and used them for large scam, the systems have been abused for online shopping with a stolen foreign credit card number. This time it […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 20, 2013

Original fishing scheme against Poste Italiane

Security Experts at Sophos have detected a new phishing campaign against the Italian brand Poste Italiane that makes use of an efficient social engineering technique. Sophos experts detected this week an intriguing case of phishing against the Italian postal service Poste Italiane, the scheme attracted the researcher’s attention due the reuse of an old social […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 20, 2013

Syrian Electronic Army attacked most major Qatar websites

Syrian Electronic Army attacked most major Qatar websites to protest against the support of the government to the rebels against Assad. The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has hit a new series of targets in a large hacking campaign against high profile Qatar based websites. The Syrian Electronic Army is considered one of the most active and dangerous group of […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 18, 2013

Arbor Networks has published ATLAS Q3 2013 DDoS report

Arbor Networks has published a quarterly report based on data pulled from ATLAS which includes new insight into DDoS attack trends having worrying characteristics. Arbor Networks has issued the report on global DDoS attack trends for the first three quarters of 2013, the report revealed that this kind of attack still represents a serious menace for IT […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 17, 2013

A vBulletin exploit used to hack thousands of websites

Security firm Imperva revealed that more than 35000 websites based on vBulletin CMS have been hacked exploiting a known vulnerability. Security experts warn of a massive attack against web sites that exploits security flaw sites powered by the forum software vBulletin. On August vBullettin authors warned on “Potential vBulletin Exploit (vBulletin 4.1+, vBulletin 5+)”. The exploits […]

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Syrian Electronic Army hacked President Obama website and social media

Israel – AP Exclusive reveals tunnel hit by cyber attack

Subcontractors are for hackers the weakest link in security chain

PHP.net compromised and redirecting to Magnitude exploit kit

Cyber Threat summit 2013 – Modern online-banking cybercrime

Hackers in the service of cybercrime, a concerning trend

Original fishing scheme against Poste Italiane

Syrian Electronic Army attacked most major Qatar websites

Arbor Networks has published ATLAS Q3 2013 DDoS report

A vBulletin exploit used to hack thousands of websites

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