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Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2017
Italian officials speculate Russia was behind a cyber espionage campaign on the Italian foreign ministry that lasted for months. The Italian Foreign Ministry was the victim of a targeted cyber espionage campaign, according to The Guardian newspaper who cited a diplomatic source that has spoken on condition of anonymity. According to the source, the attack […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 25, 2016
The Operation BlockBuster Coalition has disclosed the results of its investigation on the activities of the Lazarus Group that is believed to be behind the Sony Pictures hack. State-sponsored hackers allegedly behind the Sony Pictures hack have been linked to other security breach suffered by a number of companies in South Korea. The FBI blamed the North Korea, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 17, 2015
A flaw affecting the way encryption software implements the Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm allowed the NSA to break trillions of encrypted connections. Edward Snowden has revealed to the world that the NSA was able to crack also the almost encryption to conduct a large-scale online surveillance. According to Snowden, the intelligence Agency was able to decrypt […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 26, 2015
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. Russian APT launched a new phishing campaign on the Pentagon Dead NIS agent left note denying spying on SK population Microsoft to spoofed Skype users: Change your account passwords […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2015
Experts estimated that between 25 to 50 billion devices will be connected to the internet by 2020 will be exposed to an increasing number of cyber threats. Until the end of 2020, experts estimated that between 25 to 50 billion devices on the planet will be connected to the internet, and counting that the Internet […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 04, 2014
TrendLabs has analyzed the Destructive malware mentioned in the FBI warnings recently issued and they have linked it to cyber attack against Sony Pictures. Researchers at TrendLabs announced that they have identified the strain of malware that appears to have been used in the cyber attack against Sony Pictures systems by GOP (Guardians of Peace). The hackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 18, 2014
Russian hackers hit Nasdaq critical systems with with a malware-based attack with the primary intent to sabotage the U.S. financial world. It was October 2010 when the FBI started an investigation on alleged malware-based cyber attacks against on Nasdaq, probably related to the operation of a state-sponsored group of hackers. After more than 12 months in which […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 14, 2013
A study titled âIran:How a Third Tier Cyber Power Can Still Threaten the United States” states that Iran has sufficient cyber capabilities to attack the US Iran has sufficient cyber capabilities to attack the US causing serious damages to the critical infrastructures of the country. The news doesnât surprise the cybersecurity experts that know very […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2013
During the last days worldwide internet community expressed great concern on the possibility of a reintroduction of The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection act (CISPA)Â before the US House by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and ranking member Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.). The controversial cyber bill raised an heated debate, supporters believe it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2012
Last year we have observer an impressive grow of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks mainly related to operation arranged by group of hacktivists such as Anonymous. During a DDoS attacks multitude of compromised systems attack a single target causing denial of service for users of the targeted system. I desire to analyze with you the interesting results […]
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