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Pierluigi Paganini
December 10, 2013
Security experts at FireEye discovered a cyber espionage operation conducted by Chinese hackers on the computer at the foreign ministries of the Czech Republic, Portugal, Bulgaria, Latvia and Hungary. Security experts at FireEye have revealed that they were able to track Chinese hackers spying on EU foreign ministries for about a week. The hackers have targeted the computers belonging at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 10, 2013
The Guardian published documents that reveal NSA and GCHQ infiltrate gaming platforms and communities including World of Warcraft and Second Life NSA and British GCHQ are working to infiltrate the virtual world of online games considered as an attractive environment for cyber terrorists and hackers, this is the last chapter of the Snowden‘s Saga. The Guardian […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2013
LinkedIn iOS app parses HTML in the messages, and this can be used to phish for credentials or be escalated into a full blown attack. Senior CyberSecurity Specialist Zouheir Abdallah @ZuZ (Twitter handle), has publicly and responsibly disclosed a vulnerability in LinkedIn’s mobile app. Zouheir is known for reporting a serious vulnerability in DropBox’s 2 Factor […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2013
Amazon announced the use of unmanned drones for Civilian purposes, Samy Kamkar has demonstrated how to build your UAV “Killer drone” to hijack them. Amazon company, the world’s largest online retailer, has recently announced that it is testing unmanned drones to deliver products ordered by the customers, the service could take up to five years […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 08, 2013
Google discovered the unauthorized use of digital certificates issued by an intermediate certificate authority linked to ANSSI for several Google domains. Google has revealed that late on December 3rd it became aware of unauthorized digital certificates for several Google domains and immediately has started the investigation. Security experts at Google found that the digital certificates […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 08, 2013
NSS Labs issued the report titled “The Known Unknowns” to explain dynamics behind the market of zero-day exploits. Last week I discussed about the necessity to define a model for “cyber conflict” to qualify the principal issues related to the use of cyber tools and cyber weapons in an Information Warfare context, today I decided […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 07, 2013
Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit, FBI, Europol and industry partners decapitated the feared ZeroAccess botnet that hijacks search results Microsoft this week has announced that thanks to a joint operation of its Digital Crimes Unit and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and technology companies has decapitated ZeroAccess botnet. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 07, 2013
Google has recently removed from the official Play store the ” Balloon Pop 2″ Android game that allows WhatsApp conversations snooping. Every day numerous friends ask me if it is possible to steal WhatsApp chat messages and how, of course a malware represents an excellent solution to the request. In the past I already posted […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 06, 2013
Cyber warfare or information warfare is still a gray area of the military doctrine, it is necessary to define the “model of conflict” and rules for the actors. Cyber war and cyber information warfare are two terms very inflated used to describe the current disputes within the cyberspace. To explain the effect of acts of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 05, 2013
Two Million stolen Facebook, Twitter login credentials were found on ‘Pony Botnet’ Command and Control Server by Trustwave’s researchers. Two Million social media credentials stolen by cybercriminals have been found by security experts at Trustwave’s SpiderLabs, the collection includes popular social media like Facebook and Twitter and popular websites such as Google and Yahoo. Trustwave’s SpiderLabs […]
