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Pierluigi Paganini
August 28, 2014
A study conducted by Blue Coat on 660 million unique hostnames reports that 470 Million websites are One Day Wonders and 22 Percent are malicious. A recent research conducted by security experts at Blue Coat revealed that 470 million websites exist only for one day and nearly one on five is malicious. Blue Coat experts over a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 28, 2014
Russian Hackers are spreading the Kelihos Trojan leading victims into believing that it is a software to hit Western Governments. Kelihos botnet is still active and exploited by the cybercrime ecosystem to monetize its effort as discovered by security experts at Bitdefender. Cyber criminals have a single purpose, to earn money by any means, for this reason it is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2014
Routers manufactured by Netcore and sold worldwide under Netis brand have a wide-open backdoor that can be fairly easily exploited by threat actors. Experts at TrendMicro discovered that routers manufactured by Chinese security vendor and sold under the brand name Netcore in China have a hard-coded password. The hard-coded password allows attackers to access user’s traffic with a backdoor, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2014
A group of hackers dubbed DERP has created a super tool to coordinate multi protocol DDoS reflection attacks as explained by Melbourne-based Micron21 firm. For the first time ever a hacking group coordinated a range of different DDoS reflection attacks against a data center of the firm Melbourne-based Micron21, the attack occurred on August 2nd. The experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 26, 2014
ICREACH is the codename for the NSA’s Secret Google-Like Search Engine for Metadata Analysis disclosed by a new collection of documents leaked by Snowden. ICREACH is the name of a Google-like search engine designed by the National Security Agency (NSA) that provides metadata related to individuals living in US to more than two dozen US government agencies. The Intercept […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 26, 2014
Authorities confirmed that 27 million individuals in South Korea suffered a data breach, nearly 70 percent of the population aged between 15 and 65 was hit. A new massive data breach hit more that 27 million people in South Korea, according to the authorities stolen data comes from the gaming industry. It isn’t the first time that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2014
FBI is warning businesses operating in the healthcare industry on possible cyber attacks. The FBI is alerting the healthcare industry companies on potential cyber attacks, the law enforcement are warning companies after the attack on U.S. hospital group Community Health Systems Inc that caused the theft of millions of patient records. “The FBI has observed malicious actors targeting healthcare related systems, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2014
The PlayStation Network and Sony Entertainment Network have been hit by a major DDoS Attack, hackers also claimed to have diverted SOE President’s Plane. A large scale DDoS attack is currently targeting the PlayStation Network which is experiencing mass outages for North American users. “Like other major networks around the world, the PlayStation Network and Sony […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2014
Experts working at US and UK Intelligence agencies on monthly base leak Tor vulnerabilities to the developers at the Tor Project. The BBC reported that the executive director of the Tor Project revealed that both US and UK intelligence agencies share bugs anonymously with Tor developers. The circumstance is quite surprising considering that both NSA and GCHQ […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 24, 2014
Location services are considered a serious threat to privacy because data managed by company like Google could be used for online surveillance. Many experts consider privacy a utopia, every activity we make online is constantly tracked and in many cases principal service providers manage much more information than needed. Google company has been accused many times […]
