Pierluigi Paganini
April 18, 2014
A new study conducted by the Ponemon Institute reveals the impact of successfully SQL injection attacks on organizations during the last year. The Ponemon Institute published a new study titled “The SQL Injection Threat Study“ to understand the reply of organizations to the SQL injection threat. The study is sponsored by DB Networks, its Chairman and CEO Brett Helm used the following […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 09, 2014
Symantec has issued The Internet Security Threat Report, a document which provides an overview and analysis of global threat evolution in 2013. Security experts are observing a significant increase in the number of targeted cyber-attacks, it has been estimated that the growth is by 91 per cent in 2013 respect previous year, but most concerning […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 06, 2014
German authorities have discovered 18 Million Email Passwords, this is probably the biggest Data Theft in the history of the country. German authorities have confirmed that nearly 18 million email accounts were stolen and compromised by hackers, it is the greatest theft occurred in the country in the history. The news was published by the Der Spiegel journal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 12, 2014
Sucuri firm detected a large DDOS attack that leveraged thousands of unsuspecting WordPress websites as indirect amplification vectors. The security community is threatened by a new botnet composed at least 162,000 WordPress-powered websites abused to run DDoS attacks. The technique of attack allows to flood a target with requests sent by WordPress servers that received a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 09, 2014
Security expert Dancho Danchev profiled a recently released DNS amplification DDoS service available for sale in the underground. Recently the cyber security expert Dancho Danchev profiled new DNS amplification DDoS bot available in the underground, a privileged attack tool for the criminal ecosystem. DDoS attacks observed last year were characterized by an increased magnitude because attackers adopted new techniques […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 01, 2014
Hold Security firm discovered more than 360 million newly stolen credentials and around 1.25 billion email addresses available for sale on the black market. The Hold Security firm has discovered a huge volume of data for sale on the online black market, it includes credentials from more than 360 million accounts and around 1.25 billion email addresses. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 28, 2014
Secunia’s Vulnerability Review 2014 provides an interesting analysis of the number of vulnerabilities in the Top 50 portfolio products. The Secunia Vulnerability Review provides a vision on global vulnerability trends, evaluating carefully the 50 most popular programs on private PCs. These programs are practically everywhere, in many cases, they are key application for ordinary IT […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 25, 2014
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Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2014
Risk Based Security-the Open Security Foundation issued a report to provide a summary of the key findings from analysis of 2013 data breaches Risk Based Security and the Open Security Foundation have conducted a study on 2,164 data loss incidents reported in 2013 producing an interesting report that could help us to better understand the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2014
The crowd-funding site Kickstarter has been Hacked! The company suggested to its users to change their password. The popular crowd funding website Kickstarter is the last victim of a data breach, all the users are invited to change their passwords to avoid further problems. The news has been confirmed by the CEO of Kickstarter, Yancey Strickler, that revealed the company has […]
