Security

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2015
Compliance: An Often Overlooked, Powerful Method of Threat Prevention

Which are different components that must be taken into consideration  to build an efficient information security foundation and prevent cyber threats. Introduction A major obstacle that management must face in today’s world is the task of securing their organization’s assets.  While physical security is a huge component in ensuring that the residual risk level existing […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 09, 2015
DARPA is developing a tool do detect Android Malware

A team or researchers sponsored by the US DARPA has developed a new innovative tool to improve the detection of Android malware. The blue team of DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) backed up by Iowa State University researchers are developing a tool that will help with Android malware analysis. The features used by the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 08, 2015
Snowden keeps saying that US is still catching our emails

The British television host scored a rare one-on-one interview in Moscow with Edward Snowden for the Sunday’s edition of the “John Oliver Tonight” show. A British channel hosted a rare interview with Snowden in Moscow, the interview was conducted by John Oliver from “John Oliver Tonight.” Aside from jokes like “Do you miss a hot […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 05, 2015
Security Affairs newsletter Round 3 – Best of the week from best sources

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. Uber logins available for sale in the Deep Web Thousands of WordPress sites hacked by exploiting a flaw in RevSlider plugin British Airways Executive Club members accounts compromised Sheep […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 05, 2015
Google Internet Authority G2 has become untrusted due to an expired certificate

Gmail and Google Apps have noticed on Saturday that the Google Internet Authority G2 has become untrusted due to an expired digital certificate. On Saturday April 4, the Google Internet Certificate Authority G2 has become untrusted due to an expired digital certificate in the chain of trust. The Google Internet Authority G2 is an essential component of the Google PKI […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 04, 2015
Malware infections on Android devices have been halved in 2014

Android presented its Security State of the Union 2014 and confirmed that the number of infections have been halved in a year due to Google’s improvements. Google confirmed that malware infections have been halved in a year due to  security upgrades for the Android mobile platform. Android security engineer Adrian Ludwig explained in a blog post that […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2015
TrueCrypt doesn’t include a backdoor according to a security audit

The security audit of the popular encryption software TrueCrypt reveals the absence of the backdoor and other significant flaws exploitable by the NSA. The news of the day is the conclusion of the security audit of the popular encryption tool TrueCrypt that confirmed the absence of any backdoor neither critical design vulnerabilities inside the source code. TrueCrypt is a […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2015
Google goes on the Offensive versus Ad Injectors

Google has announced serious actions to prevent ad injectors that compromise the integrity of users’ browsing experience across the globe. Google has declared “war” on programs that compromise the integrity of users’ browsing experience across the globe.  In a recent blog post featured on Google’s Online Security Blog, Google has released information surrounding research that […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2015
Fake Pirate Bay website exploited to serve banking Trojan to WordPress users

Security experts at MalwareBytes discovered that unaware WordPress users are infected with a banking trojan served by a fake Pirate Bay website. Some WordPress websites are being used to redirect users to a fake Pirate Bay that is being used to make the reader to push malware, says Malwarebytes. WordPress websites were injected with the same iframe during the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2015
POODLE flaw still affects hundred thousand Australian home routers

Security experts revealed that more than 100,000 home routers belonging to Australian households are still vulnerable to the PODDLE vulnerability. Once again, home routers are exposed to the risk of cyber attacks. This time the news is related to the Australian consumer broadband modems that resulted affected by the Poodle and Freak vulnerabilities. Many Australian households […]