Pierluigi Paganini
May 11, 2014
Entities claiming to be part of Anonymous collective are working to put together a secure communications project named Airchat based on ham-radio Fldigi modem controller. Entities claiming Anonymous affiliation are supporting the AirChat project, available for consultation on the Github, for the design of  a secure communication based on the open source ham-radio Fldigi modem controller. âWe traded bandwidth for freedom, or […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 11, 2014
US DoJ formalized a proposal to allow U.S Federal Agencies to secretly hack suspects’ computers to collect criminal evidence into investigations. The US Justice Department (DOJ) wants secretly hack into the suspected criminalâs computer during investigations at any times in bunches for collection of evidence. The document titled “COMMITTEE ON RULES OFÂ PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE” defines […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 10, 2014
Security researcher Robert Graham published the results of recent global scan searching for Heartbleed vulnerable systems. 300k systems are still vulnerable Heartbleed flaw is a bug disclosed more than a month ago, which affected OpenSSL library with serious repercussion on most common encryption services we daily use. Encrypted communications, mobile platforms, VPN and Tor networks are just a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 10, 2014
The Federal Trade Commission debated on the privacy ramifications of consumer generated and controlled health data, following data on mobile apps. The Federal Trade Commission has recently released the disconcerting results of a study conducted on 12 mobile health and fitness apps, focusing the analysis on the way they manage users’ personal information. Let me anticipate that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 09, 2014
Experts at Imperva have illustrated how to exploit NTLM flaws to conduct a Windows folder Poisoning Attack and steal access rights within corporate networks. Security vendor Imperva revealed that attackers can exploit specifically crafted shortcut icons to hack Windows machines and force them into sharing their network-access rights with a hacked PC. The experts at Imperva  have discovered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2014
FAA confirmed that its air traffic system experienced problems while processing a flight plan filed for a U-2 spy plane that operates in Southern California. In the past, we had a long discussed on new cyber warfare scenarios, the conflicts in the cyberspace have many faces, we saw sophisticated hacking platforms like the NSA FOXACID […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2014
The Ponemon Institute has issued its ninth annual report ” Cost of Data Breach Study “, an analysis on the economic impact of data breaches. The Ponemon Institute has issued its annual report “Cost of Data Breach Study,”, a study on the economic impact of data breaches. The Cost of Data Breach Study is sponsored by IBM, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2014
French telecom giant Orange has suffered the second data breach of the year on April 18th. Hackers violated its website stealing 1,3 customer records. Orange company was hit again by hackers, client database was breached by unknown attackers which have stolen the personal information on 1.3 million customers. According first news on the incident the hackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2014
Al Jazeera obtained the emails exchanged between Google executives and former NSA director Alexander which suggest that Google is very close to NSA. The IT Giants Apple, Google and Microsoft always denied any involvement in the surveillance program despite Edward Snowden as produced different documents attesting to the inconvenient truth. Now a new event is shocking the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 05, 2014
Dutch malware detection company RedSocks has issued its first Malware Trend Report related to the malicious code trends observed in the first quarter of 2014. RedSocks, a Dutch malware detection company which provides netflow-based malware detection service, has published its first Malware Trend Report Labs related to the first quarter of 2014. The report provides precious insights into the trends […]
