Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2014
The United States has filed criminal charges against five Chinese military PLA officials for cyber espionage and hacking against several US companies. The United States early this week charged five Chinese military PLA officers and accused them of hacking into computers of American companies. US authorities accused the China’s People’s Liberation Army officers of hacking […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 14, 2014
Journalist Glenn Greenwald published the last revelation of NSA surveillance, the agency tampers with US-made internet routers destined for foreign markets. A new collection of documents leaked by Edward Snowden claims the NSA intercepted US-made routers bound for export and to implant backdoor in their circuits. The allegations have been published by the journalist Glenn Greenwald, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2014
FireEye published a report titled “Operation Saffron Rose” to document the activities of the Iranian hacking group named Ajax Security Team According to a recent report titled “Operation Saffron Rose” published by cybersecurity company FireEye, a group called the Ajax Security Team is the principal Iranian hacking group, it is responsible for different espionage campaigns on custom-built malicious software. “This group, which […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2014
Unknown hackers have stolen files on the Ukraine crisis from the Belgian Foreign Ministry, causing the crackdown of targeted servers. A new cyber espionage campaign hit the Belgian foreign ministry, unknown hackers have stolen data related to the Ukraine crisis last week. The cyber attack has caused the crackdown of targeted servers which has left diplomats without […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2014
French telecom giant Orange has suffered the second data breach of the year on April 18th. Hackers violated its website stealing 1,3 customer records. Orange company was hit again by hackers, client database was breached by unknown attackers which have stolen the personal information on 1.3 million customers. According first news on the incident the hackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2014
Al Jazeera obtained the emails exchanged between Google executives and former NSA director Alexander which suggest that Google is very close to NSA. The IT Giants Apple, Google and Microsoft always denied any involvement in the surveillance program despite Edward Snowden as produced different documents attesting to the inconvenient truth. Now a new event is shocking the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2014
Security experts at McAfee Labs have discovered a new cyber espionage based on the malware digitally signed with stolel certificates. A recent research of McAfee Labs has identified a series of spear phishing attacks against non governmental entities and activists, the offensives which interested mainly organizations in China were conducted using malicious code signed with stolen digital […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 05, 2014
Technion students Find a security vulnerability in the Internet DNS protocol which allows the attackers to redirect users to a  website they control. A significant new security vulnerability has been found in the DNS protocol by a group of Israeli students from the Technionâs Department of Computer Sciences. After the Heartbleed case and the assumptions […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 27, 2014
Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report 2014, to better understand how attackers can affect company business, and learn the proper countermeasures. Verizon firm provided the first data related to its annual report titled Verizon’s 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). The document reports specific sections around common incident patterns covering the bad actors, the techniques used, targets hit, timelines […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 24, 2014
The NIST announced it will request final public comments before Dual_EC_DRBG generator is officially removed from NIST Special Publication 800-90A, Rev.1 The National Institute of Standards has decided to abandon Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator (Dual_EC_DRBG ) in response to the controversy raised after the revelation made by Edward Snowden. In December the whistleblower leaked […]
