Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2016
Securing Hospitals is a report issued by Independent Security Evaluators that demonstrates how hackers can hack hospitals putting lives in danger. A group of experts from the Independent Security Evaluators research team have tested the security of hospital networks, demonstrating how it is possible to gain access to critical medical equipment in attacks they say could put lives in danger. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2016
2015 Gemalto Breach Level Index report confirmed the increased interest of threat actors in Government and healthcare data. As per the security firm Gemalto, Government and healthcare have overwhelmed the retail area as most-focused for information breaks. An aggregate of 1,673 information ruptures prompted 707 million information records being traded off worldwide amid 2015, as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 25, 2016
The Operation BlockBuster Coalition has disclosed the results of its investigation on the activities of the Lazarus Group that is believed to be behind the Sony Pictures hack. State-sponsored hackers allegedly behind the Sony Pictures hack have been linked to other security breach suffered by a number of companies in South Korea. The FBI blamed the North Korea, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 24, 2016
Japanese commercial and critical infrastructure organizations have been targeted a long-running campaign dubbed Operation Dust Storm. Security firm Cylance have uncovered a long-running hacking campaign dubbed ‘Operation Dust Storm’ targeting commercial and critical infrastructure organizations in Japan. Threat actors behind the Operation Dust Storm have been active since at least 2010, the hackers targeted several organizations in Japan, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2016
Project Cumulus – A group of experts at Bitglass used watermarks to track data through the Dark Web and discover how far do phished credentials get. In April 2015, a group of experts at Bitglass used watermarks to track data through the Deep Web and discover how far does it get after a data breach. The experts discovered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2016
2015 awards – For the fifth year in succession the AV-TEST Institute is awarding firms that offered the most efficient IT protection solutions. On February 17, 2016, the independent institute AV-TESTÂ is awarding the AV-TEST AWARDs to companies who developed antivirus software in 2015. The awards were assigned to products grouped in the categories “PROTECTION”, “PERFORMANCE” […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2016
According to a report published by Risk Based Security more than tens of thousands of DVRs are exposed on the Internet with a hardcoded password. According to a report published by Risk Based Security (RBS), the firmware of DVRs manufactured by China-based Zhuhai RaySharp contains hardcoded credentials that could be used by a remote hacker […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2016
A group of researchers discovered that roughly 1,000 brain wallets have been drained by cyber criminals that have stolen $103,000 The term brainwallet refers to the concept of storing Bitcoins in one’s own mind by memorization of a passphrase. The phrase is converted into a 256-bit private key with a hashing or key derivation algorithm (example: SHA256). That […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 31, 2016
According to a new report from Panda Security more than 84 million new malware samples were detected over the 2015, 27% of all malware of ever. In 2015, security experts have detected the a record number of new malware, according to a report published by Panda Security more than 84 million new malware samples were collected. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 28, 2016
ENISA has issued the annual ENISA Threat Landscape 2015 a document that synthesizes the emerging trends in cyber security I’m very happy to announce the publication of the annual ENISA Threat Landscape 2015 (ETL 2015), this is the fifth report issued by the European Agency. The ENISA Threat Landscape 2015 summarizes top cyber threats, experts have identified […]
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