Pierluigi Paganini
July 22, 2015
What will happen if hackers will hit critical infrastructure in the US, which will be the economic impact of a cyber attack against a power grid? According to a poll done by Morning Consult firm, cyber attacks are just behind terrorism attacks on the list of biggest threats to the US, it has been estimated that the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 08, 2015
Cyber attacks can crash trains. Intense security concerns have emerged, after the upgrade of the British railway network that can be affected by malware. The new railway network upgrade in the United Kingdom has raised a lot of concerns, as far as its overall network security is concerned. It seems that over thirty million pounds […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 30, 2015
A High-profile defector warns of that North Korea’s cyber army has the capability to run cyber attacks that could cause loss of human lives. Digital life and real existence increasingly overlap, cyber weapons are proof of that a threat originating from cyberspace can cause real and tangible damage as the loss of human lives. The BBC published […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 27, 2015
The NSA veteran Chief General Keith Alexander fears crippling cyber-attack on Western energy infrastructure and warned that we are not prepared for that. Security experts are warning companies in the energy industry of possible cyber attacks and Western plants are more exposed to the cyber threats. Electric grids, oil refineries and power plants are the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 24, 2015
Which is the impact of the Windows XP End of Life on the critical infrastructure? Recently a Government audit found 48,000 XP PCs still running at TEPCO. One year ago the end of life for Microsoft Windows XP raised a heated debate on security for all the infrastructure that still adopt the popular OS. Windows XP […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 15, 2015
A recent report published by Dell revealed a 100 percent increase in the number of attacks on industrial control (SCADA) systems. The new Dell Annual Threat Report revealed that the number of attacks against supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems doubled in 2014 respect the previous year. Unfortunately, the majority of incidents occurred in SCADA systems is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 09, 2015
Security experts at Fidelis firm discovered that variants of the AlienSpy remote access trojan (RAT) are currently being used in global phishing campaigns. Cyber criminals have exploited the AlienSpy RAT to deliver the popular Citadel banking Trojan and maintain the persistence inside the targeted architecture with a backdoor mechanism. Criminal crews used AlienSpy RAT to compromise systems in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 02, 2015
A new executive order signed by the US President Obama imposes sanctions against every entities that is threatening US assets, even overseas hackers The President of United States, Barack Obama has signed an executive order that uses economic restrictions to “control” anyone that is trying to attack any American interests. But what this exactly means? […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2015
Iran is improving its cyber capabilities faster than experts ‘would have ever imagined’ and increased cyber-security spending 12-fold since2013. The British Business Insider published an interesting post on the Iranian cyber capabilities, according the experts the Government of Teheran is improving expertise in the cyber domain faster than experts ‘would have ever imagined’. Iran is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 16, 2015
DHS ICS-CERT MONITOR report reveals that most critical infrastructure attacks involve APTs, but organizations lack monitoring capabilities. The DHS’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) has issued its new ICS-CERT MONITOR report related to the period September 2014 – February 2015. The ICS-CERT MONITOR report According to the report, the Industrial Control Systems […]
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