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Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2015
A new report published by Verisign provides useful data related to the recent evolution of DDoS attacks and the services that offer them. DDoS attacks are even more dangerous for every organization that exposes its resources and services on the Internet, recent attacks against Sony PSN network and XBox live service demonstrate it. DDoS attacks despite […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2015
Onion.City the new search engine specialized for the black markets in the Deep Web simply accessible from a common browser. We have described several times the not indexed portion of the web known as the Deep Web, an impressive amount of content that the majority of netzens totally ignore. Deep Web is also known for the anonymity […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2015
The Founder of Shodan John Matherly was revamping the SSH banner when discovered a large number of devices that share same SSH keys. The Founder of Shodan, John Matherly, has conducted in December 2014 a personal research discovering that more than 250,000 routers used in Spain and deployed by Telefonica de Espana, and thousands more used in other […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2015
Telephone DDoS attacks are on the rise, the criminal group known as “TNT” gang has released a new hardware tool in the underground ecosystem. The IntelCrawler cyber threat intelligence company has discovered a new advanced tool, dubbed ‘TNT Instant Up’, for Telephone Denial of Service attacks (TDoS). TDoS is a common practice in the criminal underground, it consists in flooding […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2015
DNA Cryptography can be defined as a hiding data in terms of DNA Sequence. Why DNA Cryptography and which are the principal benefits for its adoption? DNA Computing Information Security is very vital in today’s digital era of e-commerce and e-business. While 2014 was “The Year of Data Breach”, 2015 is off to a fast […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2015
US and British intelligence services have stolen encryption keys of the major SIM card maker Gemalto to spy on mobile voice and data communications worldwide. A new report published by The Intercept reveals that the National Security Agency and the British counterpart GCHQ obtained encryption keys of the global SIM manufacturer Gemalto, but the company […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2015
Security researchers at AVG have discovered a new Android malware dubbed PowerOffHijack, which spies on users even when mobile is switched off. Security researchers at AVG have discovered a new strain of Android malware which is able to spy on mobile users even when their mobile is off. The malware could be used to control victim’s […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2015
The presence of the Superfish software in Lenovo laptops exposes the users to serious risks of hacking. The researcher Graham explained the reason. The news of the presence of Superfish adware in the laptops sold by the Chinese Lenovo has shocked the IT industry. The company has intentionally pre-installed a malware on laptops, but which are the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2015
A young hacker disclosed the details of an attack that by exploiting a couple of flaws in Facebook allowed him to delete any comment on the social network. The 19-year-old hacker Joe Balhis has discovered the way to delete any comment on Facebook by leveraging a session validation flaw and a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability. The expert highlighted that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2015
The Lenovo computer company knowingly shipped laptops with pre-installed Superfish malware. And ‘controversy on the web, users are outraged. Lenovo is in the storm one again, security experts discovered that the company is shipping laptops with Superfish malware , a malware that allows to steal web traffic using man-in-the-middle attacks. SuperFish is considered by many antivirus companies as […]
