Pierluigi Paganini
April 11, 2013
One of the most interesting company in security landscape is ReVuln, its researchers specialize in the security assessment and are the authors or various interesting studies on large scale applications and SCADA systems, few weeks ago I presented their work on vulnerability assessment on Gaming platforms. This time I desire to present another excellent analysis […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 04, 2013
FireEye is one of most interesting security companies, thanks to its investigations many cases have been discovered in the last months, such as the attack to Bit9 companies and the abuse of its certificate to sign malicious code. The security firm has just published a new interesting report titled â2H 2012 Advanced Threat Reportâ reporting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 02, 2013
Researchers at Hacktive Security, an independent security consulting company, have demonstrated how much insidious could be a so a simple and crimeless large scale application. We are in the digital era, everything is connected to the large networks and applications benefit of even more complex devices that deeply interact with the owner, in this scenario […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 01, 2013
Webroot has recently published an interesting study, available here (registration required), on latest Web-borne threats and their economic impact providing also useful suggestions on how to implement an effective defense. The survey revealed a direct correlation between free access to web resources by employees of the companies and the level of exposure to cyber threats such as malware and phishing attacks. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 27, 2013
Read about APT attacks has become customary, even easier to hear of attacks against political dissidents or minorities as Tibetan and Uyghur activists, but never before has been exploited the Android platform for this type of offensive. In the past Tibetan minorities have been already targeted with malware able to infect Windows and Mac OSs, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 26, 2013
Israel is considered by various group of hacktivists an enemy state to fight, for this reason they decide a joint operation to start on April 7th as part of #OpIsrael.  The attack started in 2012 against the protest against Israeli bombing of Palestinian territory, hacktivists are expressing full solidarity with the Palestinian people, the interest is high […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 25, 2013
Recently South Korea has been hit by powerful cyber attack malware based, network provided by LG UPlus Corp was hacked by a group calling itself the âWhois Teamâ. The attack targeted also media and banking of the country, television networks YTN, MBC and KBS and Shinhan Bank and NongHyup Bank, two major banks of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 24, 2013
Last week was monopolized by the discussion on cyber attacks that hit North and South Korea, but I found a news equally stunning, researchers at Hungary-based CrySyS Lab have discovered a decade-long cyber espionage campaign that targeted high-level political and industrial entities in Eastern Europe. The attackers, dubbed by security researchers TeamSpy, used the popular remote-access […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 23, 2013
Many times we discussed about large diffusion of mobile devices and of related cyber threats, around a months ago I presented the case of HTC mobile that revealed 18 million devices commercialized by Taiwanese company had security flaws that could exposes users to serious risks, in particular the bugs could allow the theft of information […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2013
Recent cyber attacks against North and South Korea are inflaming the debate on the importance of cyber security, governments are massively investing in the improvement of cyber capabilities to be prepared to mitigate the increasing number of offensives. China is considered the most aggressive state, according principal security firms and cyber experts, from its country […]
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