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Every day we read about cyber threats, zero day vulnerabilities and new patch to apply so I decided to speak about a couple of vulnerabilities I believe potential dangerous for internet users. There is no peace for browsers, this category of application is considered a privileged target for hackers due their large diffusion. Once again […]
In the last weeks we have assisted to a massive DDoS attacks against U.S. financial institutions that demonstrated how much invasive is this type of offensive. The dimension of the attacks was very impressive considering that it has beaten the defense systems of so large organizations, experts believe it is negligible if compared to the […]
In the last decade the role of hacker is deeply changed, these strange characters were once kept away from government affairs, but the scenario is reversed, there has been an unprecedented technological evolution and principal countries have discovered a new way of making war, a new way of spying. Today the hacker is the most […]
In these days it has been discussed about a possible Iranian cyber offensive against US banks immediately denied by government of Teheran, the event raised the discussion on the real level of security of banking systems. Financial institutions are considerable privileged targets for a cyber attacks, banking system is a critical asset for a nation […]
Article published on The Malta Indipendent Ron Kelson, Pierluigi Paganini, Fabian Martin, David Pace, Benjamin Gittins We use the Internet on a daily basis to access numerous services available on the web, most of which require a process of identification and validation of a user’s identity, a process commonly defined as Authentication. As Wikipedia states, the […]
I’m just returned from the Cyber Threat Summit in Dublin, one of the most interesting European events in cyber security that gave me the opportunity to share opinion notes with expert professionals of international security context. The event revealed an alarming scenario on the main cyber threats, no matter if it is cybercrime, hacktivism, cyber […]
System administrators are extremely busy people, so they will be very pleased to know that cloud-based server monitoring solutions can save them a considerable amount of time. In addition to helping you to reduce your heavy workload and be more productive, cloud-based server monitoring can also have a variety of bottom line benefits for companies. […]
In May Iranian Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination CenterLab, CrySyS Lab and Kaspersky Lab have published a news regarding a new malware that has been detected and that have hit mainly Windows systems of Middle East area, specifically the Iran. The malware was evidence of a huge ongoing cyber espionage campaign, the level of complexity […]
The defense of cyberspace is becoming one the most concerning question to approach, governments all around the world are massively investing in cyber technology with the resultants that the number of cyber operations is increasing exponentially. William J. Lynn, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, states that: “as a doctrinal matter, the Pentagon has formally recognized cyberspace as a […]
Article Published on DDoS Attacks PT Extra 05_2012 The article proposes an analysis of DDoS attacks, explaining how the offensive technique is used in several contexts to hit strategic targets for different purposes. The discussion is supported with the statistics provided by the principal security firms that provide solutions to protect infrastructures from this kind of […]