Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2011
The title is borrowed from a presentation made by Francis Brown of Stach & Liu, Hacker Halted 2011 in Miami. The presentation focus on two topics that are crucial in the modern scenario: Cloud Computing Search engines demonstrating the fact that the overall safety of complex systems can be impacted by incorrect implementation of the “cloud” paradigm. Through the knowledge of authentication mechanisms is relatively easy to retrieve access codes, passwords and secret keys necessary for access to data stored within a cloud as happened for Amazon’s EC3. Let me remind you the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 06, 2011
Bitdefender reseachers have discovered a number of brute force attacks against several web site. The attacks have been done using a server at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The hacking attack against the MIT.edu infrastructure started with a malicious script on one MIT server. One MIT server (CSH-2.MIT.EDU) hosts a malicious script actively used […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 03, 2011
Hackers interfered with the operation of two U.S. government satellites in 2007 and 2008 obtaining access through a ground station in Norway. The usage of the attacked satellites is climate monitoring. There aren’t any news regarding the nature of the interference but notes that the hackers “achieved all steps required to command” the Terra AM-1 […]
