Security

Pierluigi Paganini November 19, 2013
Energy industry warned over threat of cyberattacks, alarm raised by UAE

The energy industry continues to be a privileged target for cyber attacks of hacktivists, state-sponsored hackers and cybercriminals. The alarm from UAE Oil and gas companies are considerable privileged targets of cyber attacks, cybercriminals, state-sponsored hackers and hacktivists daily menace security of infrastructure in the energy industry. The number of attacks worldwide against Oil and […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2013
Jeremy Hammond on state-sponsored hacktivism

Jeremy Hammond was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison, during the process he declared that FBI directed my attacks of Anonymous on foreign governments. Jeremy Hammond, the popular Anonymous hacktivist considered the principal responsible for the disclosure of thousands of emails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 16, 2013
FBI warns of US government networks violated by Anonymous

The FBI is warning that members of the Anonymous hacking collective have violated networks belonging to multiple government agencies stealing sensitive data The Reuters agency reported that members of the hacktivist group of Anonymous  secretly violated U.S. Government networks in multiple agencies and stolen sensitive information. The FBI warned that the hacking campaign began almost […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 15, 2013
Pwn2Own 2013 Contest – Samsung Galaxy S4 and iPhone 5 0-day exploits

At last HP’s Pwn2Own 2013 contest hacking teams from Japan and China compromised iPhone 5 running iOS 6 and iOS 7 and a Samsung Galaxy S4. During the last HP’s Pwn2Own 2013 contest at Information Security Conference PacSec 2013 in Tokyo, two teams of Chinese and Japanese hackers demonstrated the exploitation of zero-day vulnerability in Apple’s Safari browser for […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 14, 2013
Happy Birthday Security Affairs

Happy Birthday Security Affairs Two years ago I started Security Affairs for joke motivated by my passion in the security, day after day it is growing thanks to your affection and your precious support. I wish you were all here to hug you and have a coffee together, the Italians love coffee 😉 … Maybe […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 13, 2013
TrendLabs Q3 Security Roundup on illegal activities

TrendLabs has just published the third quarterly report, titled The Invisible Web Unmasked, on the evolution of cybercrime observed in recent months. TrendLabs have published an interesting report titled titled “The Invisible Web Unmasked” to provide a picture of cybercrime evolution observed in recent months. The takedown of the virtual currency Liberty Reserve, the seizure […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 12, 2013
GCHQ used fake LinkedIn and Slashdot to hack GRX providers and OPEC

The GCHQ (British Government Communications Headquarters) used fake LinkedIn and Slashdot to hack Belgacom, OPEC & others GRX providers. According to the German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel the British signals intelligence spy agency has again adopted a “quantum insert” technique to target employees of two companies that are GRX (Global Roaming Exchange) providers. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 11, 2013
FireEye has identified a new IE zero-day exploit

FireEye Labs has identified a new IE zero-day exploit used for a watering hole attack in the US. As usual it is crucial to track and mitigate so dangerous threats in time to avoid serious problems. FireEye Labs has detected a new series of attacks based on the exploit of a new IE zero-day vulnerability […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 07, 2013
Google Bot activity abused doing SQL Injection Attacks

Security experts at Securi firm have recently detected a series of SQL Injection attacks conducted abusing of the Google Bot activity. The exploitation of search engines like Google and Bing to conduct an attack represents an optimal choice for hackers that intend to stay hidden during the offensive. No IT administrator would block traffic from […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 06, 2013
Mobile devices and cyber espionage, principal concerns for governments

The use of mobile devices in government environments concerns the secret service of any states, cyber espionage more often exploits the mobile platforms. Mobile devices are reason of great concern for governments, they have a great computational capability, huge memories to store our personal data, GPS to follow our movements and are equipped with a […]