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Pierluigi Paganini
August 18, 2014
The Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree that will extend the use of SORM-2 to social network surveillance. It’s known that the Russian Government is applying a strict surveillance on the Internet within the country, the Kremlin has developed a system code named “SORM-2” to monitor Russian citizens. The Russian Government has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 18, 2014
Malware is the primary threats for enterprise virtual machines according to report a recent report issued by Symantec Symantec recently issued the “Threats to virtual environments” report to analyze principal menace for virtualized environments. The report is very actually and considers the rapid diffusion of the virtualization paradigm within enterprises. According to Forrester Research more than 70 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 17, 2014
US Grocery giants ALBERTSONS and SUPERVALU have confirmed a data breach that could impact customers who acquired product in national stores. The Grocery giants Albertsons and SUPERVALU posted on Thursday a data breach notification related to an Incident Involving Payment Card Data Processing. Albertsons is the second largest grocery store chain in the US, meanwhile SUPERVALU is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 17, 2014
A CSRF (Cross-site request forgery) vulnerability affects the Fiverr.com website, millions users are potentially at risk. The Egyptian Information Security Evangelist, Mohamed Abdelbaset, reported to the colleagues of The Hacker News a serious CSRF (Cross-site request forgery) vulnerability on the popular Fiverr website. The Fiverr.com website is a marketplace where people offers their services for five dollars per […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 16, 2014
New revelation on British GCHQ confirms the existence of the HACIENDA Port Scanning Program which is targeting systems in 27 countries. In the last years the British GCHQ has conducted numerous hacking operation against systems in 27 countries, through a massive port scanning the intelligence agency was searching for vulnerability to exploit in cyber attacks. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 16, 2014
A security researcher discovered the Torbundlebrowser.org,web site that is a replica of Tor Project site, but it is used to serve a malware. The increasing popularity of Tor network is attracting cyber criminals, recently the French security researcher Florent Daigniere discovered a website (torbundlebrowser.org) that is the replica of the original Tor Network but a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 15, 2014
Experts at Arbor networks discovered a new variant of GameOver Zeus Botnet which implement DGA scheme. Recently law enforcement agencies have taken down the GameOver Zeus botnet with a multinational effort, but a few weeks later, researchers at Seculert spotted a new variant in the wild, which implements a domain generation algorithm.Investigators from FBI and Europol […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 15, 2014
RedSocks Malware Research Labs issued the Malware Trend Report Q2 2014, which contains data evolution of principal cyber threats observed in the second quarter of the year. The Dutch company specializing in Malware detection RedSocks Research Lab. Has published the second quarterly trend report for 2014. The experts have analyzed large numbers of malicious files […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 15, 2014
Snowden revealed the existence of the MonsterMind system developed by the NSA to automatically mitigate and respond cyber attacks. In his last interview, Edward Snowden explained the risks related to use of automated attacks in response to the offensive against the US. Many experts identify with the term proactive defense the possibility to respond instantaneously […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 14, 2014
Edward Snowden revealed that NSA hacking elite team TAO accidentally caused Syria’s internet blackout in 2012 during a cyber espionage operation. Two years ago Syria suffered a huge Internet blackout, the entire country was disconnected from the Internet for three days. Security experts attributed the responsibility for the Internet blackout to the Syrian government that […]
