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Pierluigi Paganini
November 20, 2014
Trend Micro has published a new study on black cyber-markets focusing on product and services offered on the Brazilian underground. Trend Micro has published a new interesting report on the underground cyber-markets, this is a third study focused on the Brazilian cyber-underground offer, the previous ones analyzed Russian and Chinese marketplaces. The new study, exactly like […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 20, 2014
The security researcher Jann Horn discovered a privilege escalation flaw that affects Android OS devices except the Lollipop version. A critical vulnerability affects the Android OS versions prior to 5.0 that could be exploited by an attacker to bypass ASLR and run arbitrary code on a target device under specific conditions. The vulnerability was fixed in the latest version of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2014
Data related to the number of incidents occurred to national infrastructure confirms that the US Government energy industry is constantly under attack. The US Government is aware that nation’s energy grid is constantly under attack by state-sponsored hackers and cyber criminals. Recently The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed that Russian hackers have infiltrated several critical […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2014
APT actors trying to use the G20 2014 summit as a lure to compromise Tibetan nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) with Gh0st RAT. Security experts at ESET uncovered a new series of cyber attacks that targeted Tibetan nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) concurrently with the G20 2014 summit in Brisbane, Australia. The experts discovered that APTs behind the attacks used a strain of the Gh0st RAT characterized […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2014
Microsoft on Tuesday released a rare out-of-band patch for a critical vulnerability in Kerberos that could allow elevation of privilege. Microsoft has just released an “out-of-band” security updates to patch a critical vulnerability in all supported versions of its Windows Server software, the flaw resides in Kerberos (Kerberos Checksum Vulnerability – CVE-2014-6324) and could allow elevation of Privilege […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 18, 2014
WhatsApp implemented the encryption by default on Android OS with the collaboration of the Open Whisper company. Soon it will be extended to other platforms. Many time security community has discussed about security of the popular messaging application WhatsApp, early 2014 experts at Praetorian discovered different security issues in the way WhatApp implements SSL, the principal one is the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 18, 2014
Operators of the XDA-developers forum explained how it is possible to hack Windows Phone 8.1 to run any app package in any Program directory. XDA-developers have discovered a new vulnerability in latest Microsoft OS Windows Phone 8.1 that could easily be exploited by attackers to compromise a Nokia Lumia phone running it. The XDA Developers member […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 18, 2014
The Department of Homeland Security is working with industry to the EASE concept, a self-repairing systems able to avoid the interruption of the operations. The Department of Homeland Security is working on a new generation of self-repairing network that is able to be resilient to cyber offensives and continue operations in case of attack. Enterprise Automated […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 17, 2014
Speaking before the House Armed Services Committee the US Defense is worried by the capabilities of the ISIS members for keeping their communications covert. Last week American officials had yet another meeting to discuss about the difficulties to track the ISIS militants, emblematic is the case of the alleged death of its leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi disproved by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 17, 2014
The State Department has taken the unprecedented step of shutting down its entire unclassified email system in response to a suspected cyber attack. The State Department has decided of shutting down its entire unclassified email system in response to a suspected cyber attack. A senior department official at the State Department, which reported the facts on […]
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