Largest Ever 400Gbps Distributed Denial of Service NTP Amplification attack hits Europe servers of anti-DDoS protection firm Cloudfare. Despite the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a type of offensive easy to arrange, it is a very insidious threat for web services. A recent analysis revealed that the Distributed Denial of Service attack are increasing in magnitude […]
JackPOS was detected by security experts at IntelCrawler firm several days ago and it seemed based on code from “Alina”. Attacks on POS are on the rise. A new strain of Point-of-Sale malware named “JackPOS” was discovered by IntelCrawler, a cyber intelligence firm from Los Angeles, confirming the growing trend of Point-of-Sales malware after the Target data breach. JackPOS was detected several days ago […]
Honey Encryption is the name of a new approach to encryption, elaborated by the independent researcher Ari Juels, based on misleading results. Honey Encryption, this is the name for a new approach to encryption to deceive attackers by presenting them with fake data presented by the independent researcher Ari Juels. Ari Juels, who has worked as chief […]
According to NBC News, Olympics attendees are being hacked just the arrive in Sochi, the reporter Richard Engel demonstrated it conducting an experiment. Sochi Olympics are starting, but Intelligence agencies of all participating governments fear the possibility of an terrorist attack or a cyber attack. The event is a great occasion for hackers, hacktivists and cyber criminals which […]
A report issued by The Federal Government’s Track Record provides a scaring picture on cybersecurity for US Government entities. The US Government is a privileged target for cybercriminals, state-sponsored hackers and hacktivists, for years now, officials and politicians have warned of the risks related to a cyber attack. Leon Panetta, former Director of the Central […]
The Syrian Electronic Army claimed Wednesday that it managed to hack into Facebook violating an administrator account of the Facebook’s Domain Registrar. Syrian Electronic Army hit again, 2014 has started with the exploits of the popular group hackers that hit the giants of IT industry. Microsoft, PayPal, Ebay and also the CNN were hacked in the […]
Intelligence officials now view the threat from counterintelligence, foreign spying and the leaking, as the No. 2 danger facing the country. Top U.S. Intelligence officials released a new Worldwide Threat Assessment Report during a Senate hearing last week, they highlighted the top risks to national security. Let’s give a look to the list, cybersecurity is still perceived […]
Security experts at Malcovery firm have detected a new Zeus variant bypassing the security traditional defenses with the usage of encryption. Zeus malware is hard to die, the availability of its source code in the wild caused periodically the born of a new variant, even more resistant and sophisticated. Over the years, we saw variants […]
The last update for the Facebook Android app reads user’s text messages, is it an abuse of privilege or what else? Here you are the truth … maybe A recent update for Facebook Android raised a great concern for user’s privacy because it can read text messages on the smartphone. The climate of suspicion after the […]
Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM) CYBER WARNINGS JANUARY 2014 EDITION is available for free. Yes, 2014 is here and we’re surrounded by more and more personally identifiable information (PII) theft, as predicted. Keep an eye on these at http://www.privacyrights.org and find out that we all have common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) which are searchable here at the National Vulnerability Database […]