Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2014
The Ponemon Institute has issued its ninth annual report ” Cost of Data Breach Study “, an analysis on the economic impact of data breaches. The Ponemon Institute has issued its annual report “Cost of Data Breach Study,”, a study on the economic impact of data breaches. The Cost of Data Breach Study is sponsored by IBM, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2014
French telecom giant Orange has suffered the second data breach of the year on April 18th. Hackers violated its website stealing 1,3 customer records. Orange company was hit again by hackers, client database was breached by unknown attackers which have stolen the personal information on 1.3 million customers. According first news on the incident the hackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2014
Al Jazeera obtained the emails exchanged between Google executives and former NSA director Alexander which suggest that Google is very close to NSA. The IT Giants Apple, Google and Microsoft always denied any involvement in the surveillance program despite Edward Snowden as produced different documents attesting to the inconvenient truth. Now a new event is shocking the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 05, 2014
Dutch malware detection company RedSocks has issued its first Malware Trend Report related to the malicious code trends observed in the first quarter of 2014. RedSocks, a Dutch malware detection company which provides netflow-based malware detection service, has published its first Malware Trend Report Labs related to the first quarter of 2014. The report provides precious insights into the trends […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 05, 2014
Technion students Find a security vulnerability in the Internet DNS protocol which allows the attackers to redirect users to a  website they control. A significant new security vulnerability has been found in the DNS protocol by a group of Israeli students from the Technion’s Department of Computer Sciences. After the Heartbleed case and the assumptions […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 04, 2014
Intelligence Analysts analyzing signals from the cyberspace have tried to predict the evolution of the dispute between Ukraine and Russia. The correlation of the events in the reality with ongoing activities in the cyber space is an essential part of the OSINT analysis. Security experts at Recorded Future, a firm partly funded by the CIA venture capital […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 02, 2014
Security Experts at PhishLabs revealed that a vishing campaign targeted banking industry to harvest credit/debit card data from customers. The security firm PhishLabs revealed that numerous US banks are victims of a recent Vishing (VoIP-based phishing) campaign that is targeting the payment card information of up to 250 Americans per day. Assuming that the withdrawal limits on ATM […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 02, 2014
Security Researcher Andreas Kurtz noticed that email attachments within different iOS versions are not protected by Apple’s data protection mechanisms. Mobile platform security is becoming even more crucial due to the large number of applications daily used by billion of users, but we must be aware of security flaws that could also affect the mobile OS. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 01, 2014
Security experts Cesar Cerrudo conducted a study on the security of components within control traffic lights and similar electronic systems. The hacking of control systems for traffic lights or cyber grids is a prerogative of sci-fi series and movies, hackers could be able to target them causing serious problems. Cesar Cerrudo, CTO at IOActive, has conducted a study to investigate […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 30, 2014
AOL Inc. confirms security breach, email accounts of a significant number users may have been exposed, no financial data has been stolen. AOL Inc. last Monday has confirmed with an official  blog post that the company suffered a massive data breach which may have compromised the email accounts of a significant number users, for this reason it is suggested to the clients of […]
