Pierluigi Paganini
November 05, 2013
The professional social network LinkedIn is a mine of information for any king of attackers, a Websense post described a typical attack scenario. Recently I read an interesting post published on the Websense security labs blog on the use of social network LinkedIn for the reconnaissance phase of an attack. The concept is not […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 01, 2013
OpNSA analyzed with OSINT techniques based on the correlation of media activities and physical protests. The analysts provided a forecast on next attacks. Web Intelligence analysis alerts on early signs of an Anonymous cyber campaign dubbed OpNSA that as usual will address with DDoS attack principal US Government websites. Security experts don’t exclude the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 01, 2013
A misleading script to increase the number of “I like” and an invasive technology to track screen cursors are threatening the Facebook users. The social media are money machines, the interest of private companies, governments and cybercrime are increasing exponentially. Security experts are observing an alarming trend, a growing number of subjects are spending a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 29, 2013
The hack of a social media account is a common incident that could have a serious impact of our digital identity. How to prevent it? What to do in case of hack? Social media, cloud computing and mobile are technologies that most of all attract cybercriminals due their high penetration, exploiting this channels attackers could […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 22, 2013
Experts Werrett and Lee demonstrated how to conduct a powerful analysis using FBStalker, a tool created to find a comprehensive amount of data on any Facebook user. Facebook, and more in general social networks, is a platform that if not properly managed could harm user’s privacy, the fact that also friends’ social behavior could have […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 01, 2013
A reading of an interesting study on the criminal abuse of Facebook’s Paid “Sponsor Ads” system to deliver nefarious websites to the users. In the last weeks I presented on an interesting study of the techniques adopted by the cybercriminals organizations to abuse of the popular social network Facebook. The researchers Frank Angiolelli, Eric Feinberg, Ian Malloy issued a follow up […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 14, 2013
Cybercriminals Leveraging Facebook is the title of a research that provided evidence that criminal organizations are exploiting Facebook for illegal activities. Cybercriminals Leveraging Facebook, this is the title of an interesting research conducted by Eric Feinberg, Ian Malloy and Frank Angiolelli that provided evidence of the existence of highly organized criminal networks that are exploiting the popular social network for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 10, 2013
A critical Facebook flaw exposed email address for any account, the discovery was made by Stephen Sclafani, security researcher and founder of PlayToWin. Another vulnerability menaces privacy of Facebook users allowing the disclosure of primary email address of any account. Stephen Sclafani, security researcher and founder of PlayToWin, described the attack technique in a blog post titled […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 12, 2013
Is RBN (Russian Business Network) really linked to Facebook Zeus variant? Exclusive interview with WhiteHat who has investigated on the malware. RBN or ordinary crime, Zeus is appearing in new forms and using new infection channels but according some security analysts behind new a variant there could be the support of members of dangerous criminal organization RBN. As […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 16, 2013
US Air Force published a notice that includes a paragraph on the use of social media platforms for computer network exploitation. In the recent months I had the opportunity to conduct an interesting study on the use of Social Media in the Military Sector, large diffusion of media platforms makes them very attractive for governments […]
