Pierluigi Paganini
July 06, 2015
Hacking Team, the Italian surveillance firm that develops spyware and hacking software has been hacked by attackers that exfiltrated some 400Gbs of data. The Italian security firm Hacking Team has allegedly been hacked, unknown attackers have exfiltrated some 400Gbs of data. The company has often been at the center of heated debate because of surveillance […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2015
The former Secretary of Defense William Cohen revealed that the US power grid is vulnerable to terror attacks, a major cyber attack was a matter time. Security experts and US politicians are aware that the power grid is vulnerable to a terrorist attack. Nation’s power grid is a privileged target for terrorists as explained by the former […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2015
IPv4 Exhaustion: The North America ran out of IPv4 addresses and according to the ARIN it has officially exhausted its supply of IPv4 addresses. The news of the day is that North America ran out of IPv4 addresses and according to The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) it has officially exhausted its supply of IPv4 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2015
Wikileaks reveals an extended economic espionage activity conducted by the NSA in Germany, the spies were particularly interested in the Greek debt crisis. Recently we spoke about the last collection of data disclosed by Wikileaks on NSA massive surveillance, highlighting the cyber espionage operations of the US intelligence against principal security firms and the France politicians, today we […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2015
Founder of the ahmia.fi project reported that someone is cloning and booby trapping hundreds of Dark Web sites and is re-writing some of the content. The “ahmia.fi” project census Dark Web websites, aka hidden services, by providing search engine functionalities by indexing the content present on the Tor network. Nurmi noticed an anomalous number of clones of hundreds […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2015
Researchers discovered a vulnerability in the 802.11n wireless networking standard that could be exploited by a remote attacker to target wireless networks. According to researchers from the Expertise Centre for Digital Media at the Hasselt University in Belgium, the frame aggregation mechanism implemented by the 802.11n wireless networking standard is affected by a security a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2015
Law enforcement is investigating a series of mysterious attacks on the Fiber-optic cable lines in California. Who is behind these attacks? The FBI is investigating a series of mysterious physical attacks on internet cables in California. The investigators confirmed that at least eleven cases occurred in San Francisco’s Bay Area in the last year. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2015
Although Apple has fixed the Masque Attack there are still other attack scenarios that an attacker can exploit in the installation process on iOS. A team of researchers at FireEye has revealed that the last update issued by Apple only partially fixed the two vulnerabilities exploited in the Masque Attack (CVE-2015-3722/3725, and CVE-2015-3725). The two exploits […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 30, 2015
The OPM announced that it has temporarily suspended its Electronic Questionnaires for Investigations Processing (e-QIP) system to fix a security flaw. According the results of a security audit conducted after the hack at the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) the systems of the US Department are affected by a serious vulnerability. The vulnerable system is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2015
On 16 and 17 June the Europol coordinated an international law enforcement operation against airline fraudsters at 140 airports across the world. On 16 and 17 June another joint operation conducted by law enforcement worldwide allowed the arrest of 130 individuals. The authorities operated at 140 airports in 49 countries on five continents, the investigators found the […]
