Pierluigi Paganini
June 04, 2015
Security experts at ClearSky have published a report on the a cyber espionage campaign dubbed Thamar Reservoir that is targeting entities in the Middle East. Security experts at ClearSky have uncovered a cyber espionage campaign dubbed Thamar Reservoir due to the name of its target Thamar E. Gindin. The investigation led the experts to date the Thamar Reservoir […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2015
Several US schools are using social media monitoring platform to watch students and their online activities in order to prevent risky situations. A number of US schools are using social media monitoring software to watch students and their online activities. According to the news website Click Orlando, the institutes have bought access to sophisticated social media monitoring […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2015
Security experts Ben Cox explained that the official Github repositories of the UK Government, Spotify, and Python were accessed using compromised SSH keys. Ben Cox, engineer at CloudFlare revealed that the official Github repositories of the UK Government, Spotify, and Python were accessed by using legitimate SSH keys. It seems that the keys were compromised […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 02, 2015
Facebook users can add PGP keys to their profiles in order to receive “end-to-end” encrypted notification emails sent from Facebook. On June 1, 2015, Facebook announced a new security feature to enhance the privacy of notification email content. Now, Facebook users are able to add PGP keys to their profiles in order to receive “end-to-end” […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 01, 2015
US financial industry is under persistent attacks, the number of incidents that compromised confidentiality, integrity and availability of data are increasing. Financial industry in US maintains symptoms of persistent cyber-attacks among surprising cyber incidents and large-scale data breaches that compromised confidentiality, integrity and availability of user’s information. Several advanced hacking methods and the exploitation of zero-day flaws […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 31, 2015
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. The Phantom Menace, who targeted the oil tankers? Hi-tech car thieves use £30 jamming devices in car parks Researcher who exploits bug in Starbucks gift cards gets rebuke, not […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 31, 2015
An overview of the principal issues related to the 3 general categories that security controls fall under; physical, technical, and operational controls. What is Layer 8? Layer 8 is a term utilized by information security professionals and techies in general that represents the weakest link of every organization: the users. While an organization may be […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 29, 2015
Stegosploit is the technique developed by the security researcher Saumil Shah that allows an attacker to embed executable JavaScript code within an image. The security researcher Saumil Shah from Net Square security has presented at Hack In The Box conference in Amsterdam his Stegosploit project which allows an attacker to embed executable JavaScript code within an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 28, 2015
According to a senior fellow for Lockheed IT, the National Security Agency has tested the use of smartphone-swipe recognition technology dubbed Mandrake. The NSA has developed a new technology, dubbed “Mandrake“, that can identify users from the way they swipe strokes and text on a smartphone screen. The news was reported by officials with Lockheed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 28, 2015
The Ponemon Institute’s 2015 Global Cost of Data Breach Study reveals that the average cost of a data breach has reached record levels. Every year, I propose you the findings of the report published by the Ponemon Institute related the evolution of the cost of a data breach, a very interesting study that provides an economic […]
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