Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2015
Security expert discovered a critical flaw in Verizon’s FiOS mobile app that could be exploited to access the email account of any Verizon customer. A new critical vulnerability in exposing million accounts to cyber threats, this time the flaw affects the Verizon FiOS mobile app and could be exploited by attackers to access the email account […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2015
ICT experts from the US and India have now announced that they will work together to help improve India’s ICT. This announcement was made in Washington DC during the recent US-India ICT Work Group meeting. The collaboration between experts from the US and India in a bid to help India realize its ICT projects has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 16, 2015
Google Project Zero team disclosed a new unpatched flaw affecting Windows 8.1 systems, the cyber security community is divided between those for and against. The Google Project Zero team has disclosed the details of two more unpatched Windows vulnerabilities due to its disclosure policy. Google has released the details of another Windows vulnerability that Microsoft failed to fix […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 16, 2015
ENISA published a study on the on the threat landscape and provides a list of good practices that aim at securing an Internet infrastructure assets. ENISA has published the annual analysis on the threat landscape, the document titled Threat Landscape and Good Practice Guide for Internet Infrastructure analyzes in details the current cyber threats and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 15, 2015
Researchers at IBM Trusteer discovered a new toolkit dubbed KL-Remote that allows criminals to run Remote Overlay Attacks without specific skills. It is even more simple for cyber criminals to arrange scams and conduct illegal activities thanks the offer in the cyber criminal ecosystem, for example KL-Remote is a newborn toolkit that could be used to compromise online banking accounts by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2015
GE MultiLink managed switches are affected by two vulnerabilities which could be exploited to gain unauthorized access and run DoS attacks on the device. Managed Ethernet switches produced by GE include the hard-coded private SSL key in a number of network devices. The Ethernet switches that present the security hole are designed for use in industrial […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2015
Google Project Zero team disclosed a new unpatched vulnerability affecting Windows 8.1 systems unleashing the wrath of Microsoft for its disclosure policy. Google’s Project Zero hacking team has disclosed the details of a new unpatched Windows 8.1 Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 8.1 OS. It is the second flaw in Windows 8.1 OS publicly disclosed by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 13, 2015
Prime Minister Cameron said that the UK would pursue banning encrypted messaging apps if the Intelligence was not given access to the communications. At this historical moment, governments are facing increasingly dangerous cyber threats, but their activities are hampered by the large diffusion of encryption mechanisms. Following the Snowden‘s revelations, several IT firms like Google and Apple are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 13, 2015
New York Times have managed to lead to the declassification of a report, highlighting the participation of the FBI to a warrantless surveillance program terminated in 2012. Links to the Prism surveillance program and leaks from Edward J Snowden point at the FBI being actively present in breaches of privacy. FBI has been linked to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 12, 2015
The US Energy Department issued the guidance “Energy Sector Cybersecurity Framework Implementation Guidance” for organizations operating in the industry. The Energy industry is constantly under attack, the number of hacking campaigns that are targeting the sector is increasing exponentially. Energy companies and utilities have to adopt a proper cyber security posture in order to mitigate the […]
