Pierluigi Paganini
February 26, 2016
A judge has confirmed that US Departement of Defense funded the Carnegie Mellon University to conduct research on the Tor hacking. In November 2015, the researchers at the Tor Project publicly accused the FBI of paying the experts at the Carnegie Mellon University to deanonymize Tor users. The experts at the Tor Project collected information about the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 28, 2015
The United States Department of Defense is still issuing SHA-1 signed certificates for its military agencies, despite they are considered insecure. Today I have published a blog post on the Army Vulnerability Response Program (AVRP), a sort of bug bounty program specific for the US military environment. The idea is to incentive the ethical disclosure of vulnerabilities […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 30, 2015
Part of a Pentagon email network taken down over suspicious activity, the US authorities are investigating on the alleged intrusion. New problems for the White House emerges from the cyberspace, a portion of the Department of Defence’s email network has been taken down over suspicious activity. According to Pentagon spokeswoman, the unclassified email network used by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 11, 2014
The Military Cyber Spending reserved by the Pentagon for cyber operations next year is $5 Billion, part of the comprehensive $496 billion fiscal 2015 budget $5 Billion in Military Cyber Spending, this is the budget reserved by the Pentagon for cyber operations next year, an impressive amount of money that demonstrates the high priority assigned […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 13, 2013
DARPA has launched the Crowd Sourced Formal Verification, it creates a set of games that search for software vulnerabilities involving volunteer gamers. The US Department of Defense Is evaluating the use of video games for finding software vulnerabilities with the collaboration of a network of volunteers. The idea is revolutionary, the support offered to DoD […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2012
The new is disturbing, according to former and current intelligence sources Chinese companies have the ability to remotely access to the communication equipments sold to the United States and Western Countries. The revelation made by the open source intelligence company Lignet reinforces a lot of concerns about the possible presence of backdoors in communications devices […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2012
In these hours on the web is turning the news of a cyber attack performed by a group of Chinese hackers against some U.S. Government Agencies. Once again, the weapon used against the strategic objectives is a cyber weapon, in particular it has been used a new version of the trojan Sykipot. Chinese hackers have […]
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