Pierluigi Paganini
April 08, 2014
Security experts at Symantec observed a new phishing campaign based on a fake voting application used to steal victim’s credentials. Phishing is a very dangerous threat for Internet users, nearby classic techniques new forms of phishing are exploiting new platforms like mobile and social networks. Phishers continuously improve their techniques to be able to harvest […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 31, 2014
The Turkish Government ordered to Turk Telekom to hijack the IP address for popular free and open DNS providers such as Google’s 8.8.8.8. This is a sad moment for friends in Turkey, the Government is under the illusion that censoring the media will be able to suppress the thought of those who disagree. A few […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 17, 2014
Recent revelations on TURBINE platform include also a disturbing truth, NSA used QUANTUMHAND exploits to implant malware in Facebook users’ machines. Last Week Ryan Gallagher and Glenn Greenwald revealed the existence of TURBINE platform, a sophisticated hacking architecture used to take control of botnet C&C servers managed by cybercrime. One of the details revealed by the journalists raised a heated […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2014
The last update for the Facebook Android app reads user’s text messages, is it an abuse of privilege or what else? Here you are the truth … maybe A recent update for Facebook Android raised a great concern for user’s privacy because it can read text messages on the smartphone. The climate of suspicion after the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 20, 2014
Security experts at IntelCrawler provided a new interesting update on BlackPOS author, he forgot to delete his social network page. Intelligence firm IntelCrawler announced a few days ago that the author of the BlackPOS/Kaptoxa malware used in the attack against Target and Neiman Marcus retailers a teenager known in the underground with the pseudonym of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 09, 2014
LinkedIn company filed a complaint in San Francisco against unknown hackers responsible for the creation of an impressive amount of fake profiles. LinkedIn is considered the social network of professionals, its scope is to give the possibility to the users to build their network of business relationship, sharing content of interest and exchanging opinion and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 31, 2013
CDM (CYBER DEFENSE MAGAZINE) PRESENTS: CYBER WARNINGS DECEMBER 2013 EDITION The December edition of the free Cyber Defense Magazine is out. Don’t miss it. SPONSORED BY RSA CONFERENCE 2014 Read each FLIPBOOK edition electronically, online and flip through the page: CYBER WARNINGS E-MAGAZINE: DECEMBER 2013 CYBER DEFENSE MAGAZINE: ANNUAL EDITION FOR 2013 Download a color PDF […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 15, 2013
Do users know that Facebook analyzes everything they type and not publish (self-censorship content)? Why Facebook does not consider it a privacy violation? Recent revelations on the NSA surveillance programs have raised many questions in user’s mind on the real roles of companies such as Facebook and Google, how do they manage users’ data and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2013
Researcher Irene Abezgauz from the Quotium Seeker Research Center discovered a Facebook flaw that allows anyone to see a profile’s private friend list. Facebook is the privileged target for hackers and cybercriminals, the popular social network is a mine of data that could be used to acquire information on a specific target or to conduct […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 16, 2013
Researcher Dan Melamed recently discovered an open url redirection flaw in Facebook that allowed to have a facebook.com link redirect to any website. A Facebook Open URL Redirection vulnerability is the last discovery of security expert Dan Melamed that reported it in a recent post. Dan is an old acquaintance of Security Affairs, he revealed […]
