Pierluigi Paganini
January 13, 2015
Prime Minister Cameron said that the UK would pursue banning encrypted messaging apps if the Intelligence was not given access to the communications. At this historical moment, governments are facing increasingly dangerous cyber threats, but their activities are hampered by the large diffusion of encryption mechanisms. Following the Snowden‘s revelations, several IT firms like Google and Apple are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 13, 2015
New York Times have managed to lead to the declassification of a report, highlighting the participation of the FBI to a warrantless surveillance program terminated in 2012. Links to the Prism surveillance program and leaks from Edward J Snowden point at the FBI being actively present in breaches of privacy. FBI has been linked to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 12, 2015
The US Energy Department issued the guidance “Energy Sector Cybersecurity Framework Implementation Guidance” for organizations operating in the industry. The Energy industry is constantly under attack, the number of hacking campaigns that are targeting the sector is increasing exponentially. Energy companies and utilities have to adopt a proper cyber security posture in order to mitigate the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 09, 2015
Several ASUS routers include a service that listens on UDP broadcast port 9999 on the LAN interface and contains an unauthenticated command execution flaw. The Security researchers Joshua Drake discovered a serious vulnerability in the firmware running on several ASUS routers that allows an unauthenticated attacker to run arbitrary command on the device. According to the expert, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 08, 2015
Security experts at Microsoft detected a new variant in the Win32/Emotet family which is targeting German users with a new spam email campaign. Researchers from Microsoft have uncovered a new criminal campaign is targeting German users with a new variant of a sophisticated banking malware, Trojan:Win32/Emotet.C. The attackers are running Spam email campaign in Germany to serve a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 07, 2015
Insider theft at Morgan Stanley affected nearly the ten percent of the company’s wealth management clients, the company officially confirmed the incident. The financial services company Morgan Stanley has confirmed a partial client data leak, the incident was confirmed by the firm in a statement published on its website. Morgan Stanley reported that an employee posted […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 07, 2015
The Carnegie Mellon University CERT/CC warned about the presence of serious vulnerabilities in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). The CERT/CC has issued three different advisories for security flaws identified in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) (pronounced as an initialism U-E-F-I or like âunifyâ without the n) is a specification that defines a software interface between an operating […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2015
Google Project Zero team has disclosed the details of an unpatched flaw affecting Windows 8.1 systems and reported to Microsoft in September. The experts at the Google Project Zero team have ethically disclosed the details of an unpatched Windows 8.1 vulnerability reported to Microsoft in September. The team has waited for 90 days before publicly disclose the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 29, 2014
Gmail has been blocked in China, experts speculated that the Chinese Government used the China’s Great Firewall to interfere with the email service. Bad news for Chinese Gmail users, the popular email service offered by Google was blocked in China. Anti-censorship and privacy advocates speculated on filtering activity operated by the national Great Firewall system. According to the freedom […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 29, 2014
Recent revelations have made it clear that SS7 breaches can occur, thanks to the vulnerabilities of such a set of protocols for telecom. Hackers can take advantage of these threats, like they have done in the past, as German researchers warn. The example of Ukraine and Russia highlights the danger crawling towards countries wishing to […]
