Pierluigi Paganini
December 20, 2013
Security experts at Mandiant have discovered that hackers break into Washington Post servers stealing employee users credentials hashes. Security experts at Mandiant intelligence firm have discovered a new intrusion into the network of The Washington Post, it is the third time in the last three years. In time I’m writing it is still not clear […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 10, 2013
The Guardian published documents that reveal NSA and GCHQ infiltrate gaming platforms and communities including World of Warcraft and Second Life NSA and British GCHQ are working to infiltrate the virtual world of online games considered as an attractive environment for cyber terrorists and hackers, this is the last chapter of the Snowden‘s Saga. The Guardian […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 08, 2013
Google discovered the unauthorized use of digital certificates issued by an intermediate certificate authority linked to ANSSI for several Google domains. Google has revealed that late on December 3rd it became aware of unauthorized digital certificates for several Google domains and immediately has started the investigation. Security experts at Google found that the digital certificates […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 08, 2013
NSS Labs issued the report titled “The Known Unknowns” to explain dynamics behind the market of zero-day exploits. Last week I discussed about the necessity to define a model for “cyber conflict” to qualify the principal issues related to the use of cyber tools and cyber weapons in an Information Warfare context, today I decided […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 03, 2013
Security experts at Trend Micro detected a new variant of AutoCAD Malware that leaves victims hackable for further cyber attacks. Malware researchers at Trend Micro spotted AutoCAD Malware codenamed ACM_SHENZ.A. It’s not first time that a malware was specifically designed to steal AutoCAD project, last years security specialists at ESET detected a malicious code dubbed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2013
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission reported for the first time that cloud computing “represents a potential espionage threat.” U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission reported for the first time that cloud computing “represents a potential espionage threat.” , Chinese hackers are a persistent collector of sensitive information, their action is incessant and represent a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2013
A study conducted by company’s enterprise security arm HP Fortify revealed that the majority of mobile apps based on iOS is vulnerable. The company’s enterprise security arm HP Fortify conducted a series of tests on mobile apps that produced concerning results, almost every app is vulnerable. Mike Armistead, vice president and general manager, Enterprise Security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2013
A new report based on documents leaked by Snowden revealed that the NSA placed malicious software on more than 50000 networks around the world. The NSA infected more than 50000 networks worldwide with malicious software designed to steal sensitive information. The large-scale cyber espionage operation was revealed once again by documents provided by former NSA […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 20, 2013
British blogger revealed that his LG Smart TV collects and sends details about the owners’ viewing habits even if the users have activated a privacy setting. Exactly one year ago we discussed about the possibility to exploit a vulnerability in Samsung Smart TV to penetrate our domestic network to spy on us or to serve a malware. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 18, 2013
Jeremy Hammond was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison, during the process he declared that FBI directed my attacks of Anonymous on foreign governments. Jeremy Hammond, the popular Anonymous hacktivist considered the principal responsible for the disclosure of thousands of emails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in […]
