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Pierluigi Paganini February 02, 2014
Syrian Electronic Army hacked Ebay and Paypal websites

  Ebay and PayPal hacked by Syrian Electronic Army, “For denying Syrian citizens the ability to purchase online products” said SEA. The group of hackers Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has monopolized the attention of the media, the hacking team has practically hit every possible target within government organizations, big enterprises and media agencies. The list of […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 01, 2014
CDM Jan 2014 is out for free – Welcome 2014: The Year of Mobile Spying and Privacy Concerns

Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM) CYBER WARNINGS JANUARY 2014 EDITION is available for free. Yes, 2014 is here and we’re surrounded by more and more personally identifiable information (PII) theft, as predicted. Keep an eye on these at http://www.privacyrights.org and find out that we all have common  vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) which are searchable here at the National Vulnerability Database […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2014
Time for a Cybersecurity Overhaul

A post on cybersecurity written by Larry Karisny, director of ProjectSafety.org,a cybersecurity expert,advisor,consultant, writer and industry speaker. Most of the recent attention on cybersecurity has been directed toward the disclosure of NSA activities and recent corporate breaches now reaching record-breaking levels. Both the public and private sectors are beginning to witness how devastating cyber breaches […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2014
Spear phishing against Microsoft, exposed law enforcement inquiries

Attackers breached the email accounts of Microsoft staff, probably with a spear phishing attack, accessing to documents on law enforcement inquiries. Spear phishing attacks are within most insidious attacks for private companies and organizations, they are primarily caused for data breach occurred in the last couple of years. Despite the awareness of this type of cyber […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2014
Who is spying on Tor network exit nodes from Russia?

Researchers Winter and Lindskog identified 25 nodes of Tor network that tampered with web traffic, decrypted the traffic, or censored websites. Two researchers, Philipp Winter and Stefan Lindskog of Karlstad University in Sweden, presented the results of a four-month study  conducted to test Tor network exit nodes for sneaky behavior, it has been discovered that a not specified Russian […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 12, 2014
Microsoft hacked by Syrian Electronic Army for second time in 2014

Microsoft hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army for a second time in 2014, MSFTNews Twitter account hijacked, sends out SEA messages. Again Syrian Electronic Army, the popular group of Hackers this time hacked the Microsoft News Twitter account — @MSFTNews. The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has compromised early 2014 the Skype‘s Twitter account and blog to protest […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2014
Skype’s blog and Twitter account compromised by Syrian Electronic Army

The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) have compromised Skype ‘s Twitter account and blog to protest against the support provided to NSA surveillance programme. Syrian Electronic Army has conducted first hack of 2014 hitting Skype,  the group of hackers want to remind us that nothing is secure and that netizens will never accept the monitoring of […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 31, 2013
Russian hacker HASH took control of a BBC server

The Russian hacker known as “HASH” and “Rev0lver” took control of a BBC server and attempted to sell access to it to other cybercriminals. A hacker compromised a server at the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) and started a Christmas Day campaign to sell the access to the machine to other cyber criminals. The evidences of […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2013
Safari browser stores in plaintext previous secure session data

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab discovered Apple Safari browser stores previous secure session data unencrypted in a hidden folder. Apple’s Safari browser stores session information including authentication credentials used in previous HTTPS sessions to implement the feature “Reopen All Windows from Last Session”. Safari stores in a plain text XML file called  Property list, or plist, […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2013
Self-censorship – Facebook monitors everything users type and not publish

Do users know that Facebook analyzes everything they type and not publish (self-censorship content)? Why Facebook does not consider it a privacy violation? Recent revelations on the NSA surveillance programs have raised many questions in user’s mind on the real roles of companies such as Facebook and Google, how do they manage users’ data and […]