Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2013
NEW MAC MALWARE HAS BEEN DISCOVERED BY JACOB APPELBAUM ON ATTENDEE COMPUTER AT OSLO FREEDOM FORUM WHERE IS DEBATED ALSO GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE. A new Mac Malware has been detected at recent Oslo Freedom Forum workshop, the concerning discovery has been made by the popular security expert Jacob Appelbaum. “Hundreds of the world’s most influential dissidents, innovators, journalists, philanthropists, and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 16, 2013
US Air Force published a notice that includes a paragraph on the use of social media platforms for computer network exploitation. In the recent months I had the opportunity to conduct an interesting study on the use of Social Media in the Military Sector, large diffusion of media platforms makes them very attractive for governments […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2013
Cybersecurity goes to the offensive, law enforcement and private companies are discussing the possibility to adopt an offensive approach to defend their assets from the continuous cyber attacks. The press is getting used to news of cyber attacks against companies and government agencies, to date, the trend of the representatives of the cybersecurity of these entities […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 10, 2013
Google is a mine of information that could be used for various purposes, for this reason National Security Agency realized a book to help its spies uncover intelligence hiding on the web. Few days ago I published an interested article inspired by security expert Dancho Danchev and focused on the use of Google Dorks based tool […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 09, 2013
China and US governments continue to exchange accusations about the continuing incursions into the respective national networks. China and US governments continue to exchange accusations about the continuing incursions into the respective national networks, the cyber attacks are mainly motivated by sabotage and cyber espionage purposes and are increasing exponentially. US government and intelligence agencies […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2013
Security experts have discovered a new IE8 zero-day vulnerability exploited to target U.S. Government experts working on nuclear weapons research. Security experts have discovered a new IE8 zero-day vulnerability exploited to target U.S. Government experts working on nuclear weapons research, the concerning discovery has been confirmed by principal security firms that revealed that the flaw […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2013
APWG published the interesting study APWG Mobile Financial Fraud report on the underground marketplace that revealed the explosion of prolific mobile fraud malware market. The APWG Mobile Financial Fraud report resumed The Anti-Phishing Mobile Working Group investigating on the expansion of the black market for mobile malicious code, the study is crucial to understand the evolution of criminal activities […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 05, 2013
Bloomberg published a report on QinetiQ data breach, the company has been compromised from 2007 to 2012 by Chinese hackers. The UK-based defense contractor QinetiQ is vulnerable to cyber attacks, the news is sensational and has created a lot of noise on the Internet, due the critical role of the company as primary providers for U.S. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 03, 2013
The systems of the US Army Corps of Engineers’ National Inventory of Dams (NID) were hacked back in January by hacker probably having Chinese origin. The systems of the US Army Corps of Engineers’ National Inventory of Dams (NID) were hacked back in January by hackers probably having Chinese origin, the discovery has been made […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 01, 2013
The McAfee security firm found an Adobe Reader vulnerability that reveals where a PDF document is opened. The McAfee security firm found an Adobe Reader vulnerability that reveals where a PDF document is opened, once again Adobe products are the center of attention of security experts after the numerous attacks that have exploited flaws in its products for cyber espionage campaigns. […]
