Pierluigi Paganini
June 15, 2015
DDOS attacks have become cheaper than one can think, just because of the era of DDOS-for-hire services. However, such attacks are easier to launch now and don’t cost much, but when it comes to the victim – it costs $40,000 per hour to them considering the loss. Incapsula revealed in its annual Report of DDoS […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 07, 2015
The silent war between black markets in the deep web, Mr Nice Guy hired a blackmailer to hit TheRealDeal and its competitors. TheRealDeal hacked back. Today I desire to tell you a story of ordinary war among operators behind principal black markets. A few weeks ago I have published a detailed analysis of a new black market […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2015
DDoS attacks even more dangerous according to the last report published by Akamai Technologies, the “Q1 2015 State of the Internet – Security Report”. According to Akamai Technologies, Q1 2015 showed that distributed denial-of-service attacks are on the rise again, and according to Akamai Technologies, Q1 set a record for the number of DDoS attacks, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2015
Several dozen Imperva Incapsula customers were targeted by a DDoS botnet comprised of tens of thousands of hijacked SOHO routers. Security experts at Incapsula firm spotted a DDoS botnet composed of tens of thousands of malware-infected Small Office / Home Office SOHO routers engaged in application layer HTTP flood attacks. The SOHO routers were infected with a strain […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 10, 2015
In recent years the perception of the role of hackers is completely changed, in the past these high-skilled professionals were viewed as dangerous threats that needed to be kept at armâs length, meanwhile today they are highly sought from private companies and intelligence agencies. “An increasingly large number of modern business operations rely on an understanding of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 24, 2015
Israeli security researchers have discovered a SSL certificate parsing vulnerability affecting iOS devices that could force them into endless reboot loop. Yair Amit and Adi Sharabani, security experts at the Israeli security firm Skycure have demonstrated at the RSA Conference 2015 the exploitation of a vulnerability that can force any Apple iPhone or iPad into a perpetual reboot loop. The experts explained […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 08, 2015
Anonymous hit numerous Israeli websites as promised in a video message posted a few days ago, which was threatening Israel with âthe electronic holocaust.â As promised hackers belonging to the Anonymous collective have hit Israeli websites. Last week Anonymous hacktivists published a video online threatening Israel with âthe electronic holocaust.â The voice in the video […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 02, 2015
A security researcher discovered that the improper configuration of some multicast DNS (mDNS) implementations could be used to amplify DDoS attacks. The multicast Domain Name System, also known as mDNS,  is a multiplatform service designed to resolve host names to IP addresses within small networks that doesn’t have a local name server. The mDNS can work in a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 31, 2015
Anonymous has posted a video message threatening Israel with âthe electronic holocaustâ which would âerase it from cyberspaceâ on next April 7. Once again the group of  hacktivits Anonymous has threatened Israel with âthe electronic holocaustâ which would âerase it from cyberspace.â The massive cyber attack announced by Anonymous is planned on April 7 for âcrimes in the Palestinian territories.â […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2015
The Chinese Government is suspected for the large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that hit the popular GitHub website. The popular coding website Github suffered a large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that lasted more than 24 hours starting from Thursday night. The attack exploited the redirection of users who were connecting to many other websites on the […]
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