Pierluigi Paganini
June 21, 2015
The Electronic Frontier Foundation published the “Who Has Your Back? 2015” report that ranked WhatsApp ranked as the worst in protecting users’ privacy. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published its annual report “Who Has Your Back? 2015: Protecting Your Data From Government Requests” that analyzes how private companies handlesusers data with specific focus on Government surveillance. “Which […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 19, 2015
Trustwave firm published a report related to 2014 incidents that revealed cyber criminal activities are paying with 1,425% return on investment. Hackers are seeing a whopping 1,425% return on investment for these two kinds of attacks Security experts at Trustwave published an interesting report on the return on investment related to illegal activities online. The experts revealed that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2015
Security experts at Nettitude reported that VoIP (Voice over IP) infrastructures worldwide are targeted by a growing number of cyber attacks. A new wave of attacks against Voice over IP (VoIP) systems is targeting UK businesses, security experts believe that a surge was advantaged by the greater availability of hacking tools in the criminal underground. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 15, 2015
DDOS attacks have become cheaper than one can think, just because of the era of DDOS-for-hire services. However, such attacks are easier to launch now and don’t cost much, but when it comes to the victim – it costs $40,000 per hour to them considering the loss. Incapsula revealed in its annual Report of DDoS […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 04, 2015
Security experts at ClearSky have published a report on the a cyber espionage campaign dubbed Thamar Reservoir that is targeting entities in the Middle East. Security experts at ClearSky have uncovered a cyber espionage campaign dubbed Thamar Reservoir due to the name of its target Thamar E. Gindin. The investigation led the experts to date the Thamar Reservoir […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2015
The APWG Global Phishing Survey 2H2014 seeks to understand what the phishers are doing, and how, by quantifying the scope of the global phishing problem. The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has published the “Global Phishing Survey 2H2014“, a report that comes with some interesting numbers on phishing activities. The Global Phishing Survey 2H2014 report states […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 31, 2015
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. The Phantom Menace, who targeted the oil tankers? Hi-tech car thieves use ÂŁ30 jamming devices in car parks Researcher who exploits bug in Starbucks gift cards gets rebuke, not […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 28, 2015
The Ponemon Institute’s 2015 Global Cost of Data Breach Study reveals that the average cost of a data breach has reached record levels. Every year, I propose you the findings of the report published by the Ponemon Institute related the evolution of the cost of a data breach, a very interesting study that provides an economic […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 27, 2015
Linux/Moose is a malware family that targets Linux-based consumer routers turning them into social network bots to use for illegal activities. ESET released a study about a new malware known as Moose worm that is compromising devices that have a weak or default credentials. The principal target of the Moose worm are the linux-based routers, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 26, 2015
The recent report from ISTR has outlined the fact that zero-day vulnerabilities remain unresolved for 59 days. What you can do for online protection. Symantec and the recently published Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR) have made a truly frustrating revelation as to the time period, in which zero-day threats remain undetected. Whereas in 2013 this time […]
