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Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2015
Cyberpol education is the key solution to fighting any global cyber crime

The CYBERPOL announced a series of training programs that aim to educate both law-enforcement and cyber security officers (CSO). CYBERPOL announced today that it  has refined CYBERPOL’s  focus arena and will be focusing on three main areas of cyber analytical research namely, Cyber Crime, Cyber threats and Cyber Intelligence CYBINT. The collective goal is to […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2015
Ghost Remote Code Execution Vulnerability scares the Linux community

The Linux GNU C Library (glibc) versions prior to 2.18 are affected by the GHOST remote code execution vulnerability present in the ‘gethostbyname’ function. A new critical vulnerability is threatening the Linux community, the flaw affects the glibc GNU C library. The vulnerability is present in all Linux systems dating back to 2000 and could […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2015
Reading the ENISA Threat Landscape 2014 report

The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security has published the annual report on the cyber threat landscape “ENISA Threat Landscape 2014.” The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) has published the annual report on the cyber threat landscape “ENISA Threat Landscape 2014.” This ENISA Threat Landscape 2014 report (ETL 2014) was prepared […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2015
A hacker developed Maldrone, the first malware for drones

Security expert Rahul Sasi has discovered and exploited a backdoor in Parrot AR Drones that allows him to remotely hijack the UAV with the malware Maldrone. The diffusion of drones is alerting government and authorities, small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are used more frequently in different sectors. The security of drones in both military and […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2015
Lizard Squad claims to have brought down both Facebook and Instagram

Both social network platforms Facebook and Instagram went down on Tuesday while Lizard Squad hacking team claims responsibility for an alleged DDoS attack. A couple of the most popular social networks Facebook and Instagram went down for at least 40 minutes on Tuesday, the official motivation is a technical outage, but the popular hacking crew Lizard Squad claims to have […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2015
AT&T short codes exposes users to phishing scams

Computer programmer Dani Grant revealed that short codes from AT&T are easy to spoof and expose customers to phishing scams. AT&T customers are exposed phishing attacks due to proprietary AT&T’s text protocols. Computer programmer Dani Grant discovered that is quite easy to spoof text messages from AT&T. In this variant of “Phishing” attacks, crooks attempt to trick victims […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2015
Topface data breach – 20 Million records exposed

Topface, the Russian-based dating site, has been hacked, User names and e-mail addresses of 20 million visitors are offered for sale online. Nearly 20 Million User names and e-mail addresses of visitors to the Russian-based dating website Topface have been available for sale online, the news first reported by Bloomberg. According to Daniel Ingevaldson, chief technology […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2015
Alleged Lizard Squad members hacked Malaysia Airlines. Are They linked to the IS?

The Malaysia Airlines website was hacked by hackers that claimed to be from the Lizard Squad, but who referenced the IS and the cyber Cyber Caliphate. The Malaysia Airlines website was hacked by alleged members of the popular collective “Lizard Squad”, the curious thing is that hackers also referenced Islamic State jihadists. Malaysia Airlines released […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2015
Davos – experts warned about major cyberattacks

Davos World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2015 – The elite of experts confirms the rising technological risks, notably cyber attacks. The World Economic Forum in Davos brings together some 2,500 of the top players in the sphere of politics, finance and business. The elite of experts meeting in Davos for the World Economic Forum Annual […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2015
Adobe issued the update to fix CVE-2015-0311 zero day

Adobe released a security update that fixes also the zero-day vulnerability CVE-2015-0311 discovered by Kafeine in the last release of Angler exploit kit. The French security expert Kafeine has recently discovered an unpatched vulnerability (0day) in Flash Player is being exploited by Angler Exploit Kit. The new variant of the Angler exploit kit that exploit […]