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Pierluigi Paganini
June 11, 2013
Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab detected a new instance of Android trojan, dubbed Obad, that they have judged as the most sophisticated malware found since now. Security experts at Kaspersky Lab detected a new instance of Android trojan that has been classified as the most sophisticated malware seen since now. The researcher Roman Unuchek described the Android […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2013
Edward Snowden is the person responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history, he is former technical assistant for the CIA and currently is working at defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. Edward Snowden, this name is destined to enter into the history, a single man has compromised the secrecy of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2013
An introduction of DDoS mitigation techniques focused on Cloud-based DDoS Mitigation solution, an approach implemented by many companies. Despite their prevalence, DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks have been erroneously considered minor attacks by some parts of the security community due their “limited” duration. Victims of DDoS attacks are typically forced to interrupt their services […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 09, 2013
Periodic analysis of the evolution of the offer in the underground criminal thanks to the efforts of experts such as Dancho Danchev. The offer of cyber criminals in the underground is very dynamic and articulated and its observation is a privileged point of view for better understand how evolve cyber threats. Recently we have spoken […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 07, 2013
The top-secret PRISM project claims direct access to servers of major IT corporates including Google, Apple and Facebook. The recent news on the control of communications made by the US Government through the PRISM program has literally left bewildered public opinion, everyone imagined it but when the Population has been confronted with the evidence remained shocked. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 07, 2013
Principal security firms detected a new variant of Facebook Zeus malware that is exploiting the popular social network to target user’s bank accounts. A Facebook Zeus malware variant (aka ZeuS/ZBOT) has been detected by principal security firms confirming the longevity of malicious code and the ability of cybercrime to customize it according to its needs. Symantec […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2013
The U.S. NSA is collecting phone records of millions of Verizon Communications customers, according to a secret court order obtained by the Guardian. The U.S. NSA is collecting phone records of millions of customers Verizon, the second telephone company in the country. The shocking news has been revealed by ‘Guardian‘ whose journalists had access to a “Top […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2013
An interesting post by Brian Krebs is food for thought on the business behind a cashout service for cybercriminals. Brian Krebs has recently published an interesting post on his KrebsOnSecurity blog regarding the way cyber criminals cashout their money through a dedicated cashout service. The conversion of ill-gotten gains into cash, The “Cashout”, is considered most risky […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2013
NetTraveler cyber espionage campaign, revealed by Kaspersky’s team, targeted over 350 high profile victims from 40 countries. NetTraveler, this is the name of a new global cyber espionage campaign revealed by researchers at Kaspersky, the team of experts discovered an espionage activity against over 350 high profile victims from 40 countries. The name of the operation derives […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 04, 2013
Mactans charger, this is the name of the malicious charger that will be presented by researchers at the Black Hat 2013 conference in July that is able to inoculate a malware in any Apple iOS devices. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology announced the creation of Mactans charger, a custom wall charger for Apple iPhone and iPad […]
