Pierluigi Paganini
October 06, 2015
Snowden told the BBC’s Panorama that the GCHQ has developed a hacking suite dubbed Smurf Suite, it can hack any mobile by sending an encrypted text message. There is no way to stop secret services spying on users’ Smartphones, this is the last revelation of the US whistleblower Edward Snowden. Snowden told the BBC’s Panorama that the […]
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
September 28, 2015
A study conducted by the Intelligence firm RecordedFuture demonstrates the efficiency of the analysis of hacker forums through traffic analysis-like techniques. Hacker forums still exist, hacking communities are with good shape and growing. Hacker Forums are normally hard to find and once you find them you will see them change again. Most prolific Hacker forums […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 26, 2015
A new collection of GCHQ’s documents published by The Intercept reveals how the British Agency tried to track Web visits of “every visible user on Internet” A new revelation made by The Intercept confirms that the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has conducted a massive online surveillance starting from the 2007. The documents accessed by The Intercept detailed an operation […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 25, 2015
The MotherBoard news website recently published an interesting analysis on how the US Military Fails to Protect its Soldiers’ Emails, how is it possible? After the Edward Snowden case blown up in the US Government face, the US decided to create a task force to encrypt all that can, urging the adoption of HTTPS for […]
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 “GreenSky27,” is the name of an alleged member of the People’s 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 23, 2015
The popular expert John McAfee claims passengers with four Chinese airlines are spied with the IMSI-catchers technology by the Government of Beijing. The former owner of McAfee security firm, John McAfee was always known to have made some controversial comments in the IT industry, but also to have good sources that let him get precious […]
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 17, 2015
F-Secure has published an interesting report on the cyber espionage operations conducted by the Dukes APT group, which appears linked to the Kremlin. Security researchers at F-Secure have published an interesting report detailing the cyber espionage operation of a Russian APT group, dubbed the Dukes, the experts speculate the group is backed by the Russian government. […]
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