Pierluigi Paganini
March 08, 2013
The popular white hat hacker Peiter C. Zatko, aka Mudge, confirms to have ended his experience with the Cyber Fast Track program. The story has begun when one of the most famous US hackers Peiter C. Zatko, also known as Mudge and a member of the hacking group The Cult of the Dead Cow, decided to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 05, 2013
According security experts the numerous cyber attacks that hit principal IT companies, news agencies and government offices exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in Java software to the point that many recommend to uninstall Java plug-in from our browser unless absolutely necessary. Same clamor had obtained in the past the discovery that malware source codes were signed with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 04, 2013
The year started very difficult for the U.S. government, its networks have been constantly hit by hackers that for different reasons have tried to steal sensitive information and intelligence secrets. The principal menaces against US come from state-sponsored hackers and hacktivists, in the last months we have read of many cyber attacks, mainly for cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 03, 2013
Another noisy attack has alerted IT community, online note service Evernote is the latest firm to get hacked. The company provides the popular service to around 50 million users, the attackers accessed data of some users such as usernames, passwords and email addresses. Actually there is no evidence that contents in Everynote have been accessed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 25, 2013
The news of those who make a lot of noise, more than 18 million devices commercialized by Taiwanese company HTC had security flaws that could exposes users to serious risks in particular the bugs could allow the theft of information stored on the mobile and the tracking of user’s location. The vulnerabilities appear serious according […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2013
When Apple revealed the hack to Reuters press agency I wrote that the last big enterprise not yet hacked was Microsoft, anticipating that was question of time. The last events have revealed how much vulnerable also major companies to cyber attacks, Facebook, Twitter and principal Press agencies such as NYT dedicate large investment to cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2013
The new is very curious and represents the demonstration that cyber threats could not be analyzed separately, security need a global approach, we cannot distinguish between cybercrime and cyber warfare but we must be focused on the cyber menaces, their effects and the risks connected to adoption of not appropriate security measures. The case is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2013
The war of Anonymous against US institutions is continuing, few weeks ago the group of hacktivists hit Federal Reserve computers and now announced the it accessed to State Department’s website and its database, publishing it online on ZeroBin website. Anonymous also violated the site of investment firm George K. Baum & Company, motivating its actions […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2013
In this days it is circulating persistently the news that The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection act (CISPA) will be reintroduced by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and ranking member Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) before the US House next week. The controversial cyber bill raised an heated debate, the act will force any company to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2013
In this last months we have registered numerous clamorous attacks against intelligence agencies, government offices, media and social networking platforms. Twitter was last victim in order of time but the thought of security experts was focuses of Facebook, the biggest social networking with more than 1 billion members, a mine of information related to the […]
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