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 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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 02, 2013
iCloud could not properly protect the user’s data despite the implementation of a two-factor protection. Millions of users access to the iCloud to store their data such as photos, music and documents and Apple has tried recently to improve their security introducing in March a two factor authentication system … Do users really know the security mechanisms that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 16, 2013
F-Secure published the Mobile Threat Report for Q1 2013 that reveals Malware targeting Android devices is rapidly growing in both the number of variants detected and in their complexity and sophistication. F-Secure has published the Mobile Threat Report for Q1 2013, an interesting document that the security firm periodically issues giving information on the evolution […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 12, 2013
Apple can “bypass the security software” if it chooses, accoring ATF no law enforcement agency could unlock a defendant’s iPhone except Apple that has created a police waiting list because of high demand. Apple is considered an impregnable fortress, the main functions provided by the iOS operating system and related data are inaccessible to ill-intentioned but […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 12, 2013
Once again the security of large scale application and platform is challenged, today is the turn of Apple, in particular of its famous Apple store that according the Researchers Elie Bursztein was vulnerable for more than half year. The developer supported Apple to discovery and fix an important vulnerability that allowed to steal passwords and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 28, 2013
It’s a very difficult period for security researchers that in the last months have discovered various cyber espionage campaigns that hit governments, private businesses and intelligence agencies all over the world. The situation is very concerning, silently cyber threats attacks the above institutions to steal sensitive information and intellectual properties causing damage comparable to those […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 26, 2013
Java, Java and once again Java, the popular framework and its vulnerabilities are becoming a really nightmare for security experts, billion of users and their machines are exposed to a series of attacks that try to exploit flaws in the Oracle software. Security worldwide community attributes to the Java vulnerabilities the principal responsibilities for recent […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2013
When Apple revealed the hack to Reuters press agency I wrote that the last big enterprise not yet hacked was Microsoft, anticipating that was question of time. The last events have revealed how much vulnerable also major companies to cyber attacks, Facebook, Twitter and principal Press agencies such as NYT dedicate large investment to cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2013
There is no peace for enterprises, in few weaks we have discovered how much vulnerable are giants of IT, one after another, fell the most renowned names from Facebook to Twitter, companies that we considered immune from thousands of attacks they receive each day. Until now Microsoft and Apple weren’t affected … but it’s news […]
