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Pierluigi Paganini March 23, 2013

T-Mobile MITM, a starting point to discuss mobile security

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

CNCERT – China is also a victim of cyber attacks

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 […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 20, 2013

FinFisher found everywhere, more complexity and ready for mobile

Many times we discussed about the fact that FinFisher was discovered in the wild, the use of popular spyware has been abused by governments and intelligence agencies all around the world. The spyware is for law enforcement and government use, but it seems to be preferred for those regimes that desire to monitor representatives of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 19, 2013

N. Korea hit by large-scale cyber attack,repercussions in cyberspace

North Korea is the center of attention these days for its questionable political strategies and for the dispute raging with the entire West. The contrasts have an inevitable reflection even in cyber space, North Korea is considered one of the most aggressive and dangerous states of digital world. Military tensions in the area is escalated […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 18, 2013

ReVuln – gaming platforms as vector of cyber attack

The excellent researchers at ReVuln, Luigi Auriemma and Donato Ferrante, presented at Black Hat Europe 2013 in Amsterdam a way to convert local bugs and features in remotely exploitable security vulnerabilities by using the popular EA Origin 3 platform as an attack vector against remote systems. EA Origin is one of the biggest gaming related digital […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2013

NIST – National Vulnerability Database website hacked

The news is curious as it is worrying, unknown hackers have violated the US government repository of standards based vulnerability management website, known as National Vulnerability Database (NVD), last week. The NVD website appears down since last Friday, fortunately while I’m writing is up again, the attackers have compromised at least two servers with a […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2013

Android Malware Seeds for Sale

One of the leading computer security companies of Russia, Group-IB and its CERT (CERT-GIB), found that Android malware is available for sale by cybercriminals. With explosion of mobile market and increase of Android users, more devices can be infected by malware downloaded through Android Market or Google Play or from 3d party WEB-sites. “Nowadays it is […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 14, 2013

Mobile Botnets: From anticipation to reality!

Anticipations on mobile botnets’ existence have been ended by the Damballa Research Laboratory official reports which discovered 40,000 infected mobile devices that have communicated through cybercriminal C&C servers for the first six months of 2011. Moreover, the McAfee research lab early prediction on advent of widely-distributed and more resilient mobile botnets come closer to reality […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 14, 2013

Threat Intelligence Report by Solutionary, rise of cyber attacks

Continues my overview of the main security reports published by leading companies that produce interesting analysis on the analysis of cyber threats, today I desire to introduce the data proposed by Solutionary in the “2013 Global Threat Intelligence Report” (registration is required). The GTIR report provides insight into prevalent cyber threats identified in 2012 thanks […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 13, 2013

Censorship, governments and corporations enemies of internet

The use of technologies to support censorship is deplorable and condemnable but it must be considered that is a sad reality that has sustained the growth of a billionaire market. Many IT companies around the world are specialized in the providing of solutions used by authoritarian regimes to monitor internet use and persecute the opponents. […]

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T-Mobile MITM, a starting point to discuss mobile security

CNCERT – China is also a victim of cyber attacks

FinFisher found everywhere, more complexity and ready for mobile

N. Korea hit by large-scale cyber attack,repercussions in cyberspace

ReVuln – gaming platforms as vector of cyber attack

NIST – National Vulnerability Database website hacked

Android Malware Seeds for Sale

Mobile Botnets: From anticipation to reality!

Threat Intelligence Report by Solutionary, rise of cyber attacks

Censorship, governments and corporations enemies of internet

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