cyber security

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2017
Security Affairs newsletter Round 111 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. First of all, let me inform you that at the #infosec16 SecurityAffairs was awarded as The Best European Personal Security Blog http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/48202/breaking-news/securityaffairs-best-european-personal-security-blog.html ·      Experts at RedSocks analyzed the massive WannaCry Ransomware attack ·      Security Affairs newsletter Round 110 – […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2017
Security Affairs newsletter Round 110 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. First of all, let me inform you that at the #infosec16 SecurityAffairs was awarded as The Best European Personal Security Blog http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/48202/breaking-news/securityaffairs-best-european-personal-security-blog.html ·      Business email compromise (BEC), the 5 billion dollar scam ·      European law enforcement takes down Darknet […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 07, 2017
Security Affairs newsletter Round 109 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. First of all, let me inform you that at the #infosec16 SecurityAffairs was awarded as The Best European Personal Security Blog http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/48202/breaking-news/securityaffairs-best-european-personal-security-blog.html ·      Hacker holds Netflix to ransom over new episodes of Orange Is The New Black ·      Lenovo […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2017
The Israeli Government announces it thwarted a major cyberattack

The Israeli Government announces it thwarted a major cyberattack against 120 targets just days after harsh criticism of new cyber defense bill. According to haaretz.com, Israeli Government revealed it repelled a major cyberattack aimed at 120 targets. The unusual announcement was made by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) in a very unusual announcement on Wednesday. Israel […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 26, 2017
Four Essential Security & Privacy Extensions for Chrome

Here are the top four extensions for the Chrome browser to keep your online activity safe, secure and private. The recent global wave of cybercrimes, particularly via exploiting loopholes in many leading browsers, has put internet privacy and online security directly in the line of fire. Internet users, in general, are worried about securing their […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 23, 2017
Security Affairs newsletter Round 108 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. First of all, let me inform you that at the #infosec16 SecurityAffairs was awarded as The Best European Personal Security Blog http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/48202/breaking-news/securityaffairs-best-european-personal-security-blog.html ·      Facebook dismantled a huge spam campaign leveraging bogus accounts ·      Security Affairs newsletter Round 107 – […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 19, 2017
InterContinental Hotels Group, the international hotel chain confirmed a second credit card breach

The InterContinental Hotels Group announced that last week payment card systems at more than 1,000 of its hotels had been compromised by crooks. The multinational hotel chain owns prestigious brands like Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza. This is the second time that the InterContinental Hotels Group suffers a credit card breach, early this year the hotel chain […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 16, 2017
Security Affairs newsletter Round 107 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. First of all, let me inform you that at the #infosec16 SecurityAffairs was awarded as The Best European Personal Security Blog http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/48202/breaking-news/securityaffairs-best-european-personal-security-blog.html ·      Millions of mobile phones and laptops potentially exposed to attack leveraging baseband zero-days ·      ATMitch – […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 09, 2017
Security Affairs newsletter Round 106 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. First of all, let me inform you that at the #infosec16 SecurityAffairs was awarded as The Best European Personal Security Blog http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/48202/breaking-news/securityaffairs-best-european-personal-security-blog.html ·      Android Chrysaor spyware went undetected for years ·      UEFI Vulnerabilities allow to fully compromise Gigabyte Mini […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2017
Cyber Risk and Cyber Insurance – Insurance challenge to the CIO as corporate Cyber Security Effectiveness manager

[By Cesare Burei, Margas on courtesy of @CLUSIT – Rapporto Clusit 2017 – All right reserved] Until the corporate Risk Managers dealing with Cyber Risk, and there are not many of these, start working at all levels, who shall be entrusted with the management of Cyber Risks and, more specifically, with the transfer of risk […]