Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2015
Wikileaks has obtained and immediately released the CIA Director John Brennan private emails. It is a first lot, others will be soon published. A few days ago a teen has violated the CIA Director’s private email account and leaked sensitive files including a 47-page Mr. Brennan’s application for top-secret security clearance. The teenager also disclosed a partial Spreadsheet containing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 20, 2015
A new collection of documents disclosed by a new whistleblower and leaked online by The Intercept revealed new inconvenient truth on drone wars. Many USA government documents were leaked in the past years, Chelsea Manning, WikiLeaks, Edward Snowden showed the world that activists were behind. They are responsible for the disclosure of inconvenient truth. Governments […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 20, 2015
A young hacker violated the CIA Director’s personal email account and leaked sensitive files including a top-secret application for a security clearance. A high-school student claims to have hacked the personal email account of the CIA Director John Brennan. CIA and the US law enforcement agencies are investigating on the case. The teen told the New York […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2015
A new research conducted by Citizen Lab revealed that the number of governments using the FinFisher surveillance software has increased. Researchers at Citizen Lab have been monitoring the use of surveillance tools like FinFisher over the past years reporting its use by totalitarian governments. The researchers tracked the physical locations of servers belonging to the control infrastructure used […]
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 17, 2015
A flaw affecting the way encryption software implements the Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm allowed the NSA to break trillions of encrypted connections. Edward Snowden has revealed to the world that the NSA was able to crack also the almost encryption to conduct a large-scale online surveillance. According to Snowden, the intelligence Agency was able to decrypt […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 16, 2015
Cyber Terrorism, The Justice Department has charged a hacker in Malaysia with stealing the personal data of US service members and passing it to the IS group. For the first time ever the US Justice Department has charged a suspect for terrorism and hacking, the two practices converge in the concept of cyber terrorismcyber terrorism. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 13, 2015
The NSA SHARKSEER Program is a project that aims to detect and mitigate web-based malware Zero-Day and Advanced Persistent Threats using COTS technology. Every day, thousands of cyber attack rely on exploitation of zero-day exploits, even more sophisticated ATP groups trigger unknown vulnerabilities to compromise systems across the world. Intelligence agencies and research groups are investing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 08, 2015
Chinese Hackers who allegedly compromised servers at LoopPay, the Samsung subsidiary, appear interested in spying on targets through Samsung Pay technology. The Samsung subsidiary LoopPay has been the victim of a security breach that is worrying the security industry. The investigators speculate that attackers’ motivation is the cyber espionage and excluded a financial crime. If confirmed the security breach […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 08, 2015
The Cleaver group is once again in the headlines managing a well-developed network of fake LinkedIn profiles for cyber espionage purpose. Do you remember the Iran-based APT Cleaver? In December the security firm Cylance released a detailed report on the hacking Operation Cleaver that was run by state-sponsored hackers linked to the Iran. The Iranian hackers targeted critical infrastructure worldwide, ten of which […]
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