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Pierluigi Paganini November 02, 2013

Cyberbullying Infograph – know to fight it

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 Ministry of Foreign Affairs hit by extensive cyber espionage

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

Anonymous OpNSA Campaign – OSINT to predict DDoS attacks on Nov 5th

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

I don’t like – Facebook Clickjacking and track screen cursors

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 on the Distributed Reflection Denial of Service attacks

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

Social media and digital identity. Prevention and incident response

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 […]

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 […]

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Cyberbullying Infograph – know to fight it

Finland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs hit by extensive cyber espionage

Anonymous OpNSA Campaign – OSINT to predict DDoS attacks on Nov 5th

I don’t like – Facebook Clickjacking and track screen cursors

Prolexic on the Distributed Reflection Denial of Service attacks

Social media and digital identity. Prevention and incident response

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

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