Security

Pierluigi Paganini August 25, 2014
FBI warns healthcare industry on possible cyber attacks

FBI is warning businesses operating in the healthcare industry on possible cyber attacks. The FBI is alerting the healthcare industry companies on potential cyber attacks, the law enforcement are warning companies after the attack on U.S. hospital group Community Health Systems Inc that caused the theft of millions of patient records. “The FBI has observed malicious actors targeting healthcare related systems, […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 25, 2014
A dark wing of the intelligence supports the Tor Project

Experts working at US and UK Intelligence agencies on monthly base leak Tor vulnerabilities to the developers at the Tor Project. The BBC reported that the executive director of the Tor Project revealed that both US and UK intelligence agencies share bugs anonymously with Tor developers. The circumstance is quite surprising considering that both NSA and GCHQ […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 24, 2014
Location services, Google is tracking your every move you make

Location services are considered a serious threat to privacy because data managed by company like Google could be used for online surveillance. Many experts consider privacy a utopia, every activity we make online is constantly tracked and in many cases principal service providers manage much more information than needed. Google company has been accused many times […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 24, 2014
A new Side channel attack-how to steal encryption keys by touching PCs

Researchers demonstrated a new side channel attack which allow them to steal encryption keys by simply touching a laptop. Yesterday I published a post on an interesting research conducted by a the team of experts which demonstrated an attack exploits “a newly discovered public side channel” allowing threat actor to access the shared memory statistics of an […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2014
Microsoft confirmed that a faulty patch is causing BlueScreen

Microsoft is investigating on potentially faulty Windows security update that is causing some systems to crash with bluescreen error. Last Friday, Microsoft urged its users to uninstall the latest security updates issued by the company because they are causing the unpleasant bluescreen, also know as  “Blue Screens of Death” or BSoD. Microsoft released its usual […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 18, 2014
Malware is threatening virtual machines

Malware is the primary threats for enterprise virtual machines according to report a recent report issued by Symantec Symantec recently issued the “Threats to virtual environments” report to analyze principal menace for virtualized environments. The report is very actually and considers the rapid diffusion of the virtualization paradigm within enterprises. According to Forrester Research more than 70 […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 17, 2014
Grocery giants ALBERTSONS and SUPERVALU confirmed data breach

US Grocery giants ALBERTSONS and SUPERVALU have confirmed a data breach that could impact customers who acquired product in national stores. The Grocery giants Albertsons and SUPERVALU posted on Thursday a data breach notification related to an Incident Involving Payment Card Data Processing. Albertsons is the second largest grocery store chain in the US, meanwhile SUPERVALU is […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 16, 2014
HACIENDA, GCHQ Port Scanning Program on a wide-scale

New revelation on British GCHQ confirms the existence of the HACIENDA Port Scanning Program which is targeting systems in 27 countries. In the last years the British GCHQ has conducted numerous hacking operation against systems in 27 countries, through a massive port scanning the intelligence agency was searching for vulnerability to exploit in cyber attacks. […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2014
Cisco EnergyWise suite vulnerable to Denial of Service attack

Researchers at BlackHat discovered a Denial of Service Vulnerability in Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software EnergyWise. Researchers from ERNW GMBH revealed that misconfigurations and vulnerabilities in Cisco’s EnergyWise suite could be exploited by attackers to cause huge blackouts. The team has presented the results of their study during the last Black Hat  conference […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 12, 2014
CVE-2014-0546 vulnerability is being exploited in limited attacks

Experts at Kaspersky Lab have detected a vulnerability in Adobe solutions coded as CVE-2014-0546 which has been already exploited in limited attacks. Kaspersky Lab was the first team of experts to report the CVE-2014-0546 vulnerability in Adobe solutions, the Adobe firm has issued a security bulletin to describe the security update provided by the company to […]