Pierluigi Paganini
October 19, 2015
Good news, starting today, Facebook will notify you if they believe state-sponsored hackers are trying to compromise your account. Facebook announced a new initiative to protect its users from prying eyes, the popular social network will inform them on any suspected compromise from state-sponsored hackers. “Starting today, we will notify you if we believe your account […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 17, 2015
US authorities confirmed that hackers belonging to the Islamic State (ISIL) are trying to hack American electrical power companies. According to the U.S. law enforcement, the ISIL is trying to hack American energy firms, the news arrives while the US Government  has charged for the first time a man of cyberterrorism. The news was revealed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 15, 2015
Researchers at Trend Micro discovered a new Adobe Flash Zero-Day used in Pawn Storm Campaign Targeting Foreign Affairs Ministries across the world. Once again Flash in the headlines, beware next emergency Flash Player update is critical for everybody as explained by the experts at Trend Micro. The researchers at the security firm explained that the update […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 14, 2015
Check Point discovered a series of malware-based attacks on Israeli public sector organizations that were infected by the Zeus Trojan via RTF files. Security experts at Check Point have detected a series of attacks on high-profile companies, victims were targeted by a malicious spam campaign that relies on bogus RTF file. The campaign targeted several individuals […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 06, 2015
According to the Government of Seoul, the North Korea is the main suspect for a cyber attack that last year hit the South Korean capital’s subway system. The attack, staged between March and August 2014, affected several servers of Seoul Metro, which runs four major subway lines, According to the ruling party legislator Ha Tae-Kyung […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 01, 2015
The US Air Force is using a modified EC-130 Compass Call aircraft to demonstrate how to hack into enemy networks. Information warfare is overlapping traditional military domains, in order to conduct a fight in the air it is possible to used new hacking techniques as the US Air Force demonstrated. According to the Maj. Gen. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 25, 2015
According to a new report the popular Naikon APT group is actually backed by China’s PLA Unit 78020, a firm traced it through online activity. Ge Xing, also known as âGreenSky27,â is the name of an alleged member of the Peopleâs Liberation Army unit 78020, a group of Chinese state-sponsored hackers. The man was identified […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 24, 2015
According to the a statement by OPM Press Secretary Sam Schumach on Background Investigations Incident OPM breach included 5.6 Million Fingerprints. The press secretary of the Office of Personnel Management, Sam Schumach, announced that the data breach suffered by the OPM exposed approximately 5.6 million sets of fingerprints belonging to federal employees, contractors, and other members of the staff. In […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 21, 2015
The 8th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon 2016) will be held in Tallinn, Estonia from 31st of May to 3th of June next year, what’s new? The 8th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon 2016) will be held in Tallinn, Estonia from 31st of May to 3th of June next year, in order to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 21, 2015
Unknown attackers continue to target critical communications infrastructure in the US, on Monday they cut backbone fiber optic Internet cables in California. Unknown attackers continue to target critical communications infrastructure in the US, on Monday they cut backbone fiber optic Internet cables in California. Someone continues to target critical communications infrastructure in a region of […]
