Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2015
Akamai firm discovered numerous attacks exploiting a known vulnerability in a Google Maps plugin to run Joomla Reflection DDoS attacks against enterprises. Experts from Akamai Technologies’ Prolexic Security Engineering and Response Team (PLXsert) have discovered a vulnerability allows attackers to turn Joomla servers using the Google Maps plugin into a DDoS hacking tool. The worrying aspect […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 26, 2015
SIM maker Gemalto confirmed that unknown hackers targeted its systems in the period indicated by Snowden, but denied any massive theft of encryption keys. Just a week ago, the media agencies spread the news that US and British intelligence services have stolen encryption keys of the major SIM card maker Gemalto to spy on mobile […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 26, 2015
A security bug in the WordPress plugin WP-Slimstat could be exploited by attackers to discover a “secret” key and use it to run blind SQL Injections. More than one million WordPress sites are potentially vulnerable to SQL injection attacks due to the presence of a critical flaw in the popular plugin WP-Slimstat. WP-Slimstat is an analytics plugin for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 24, 2015
The NSA Director Rogers urges the creation of an independent legal framework to regulate the operations conducted US authorities. The NSA director and commander of U.S. Cyber Command, Admiral Michael Rogers, told a Washington cybersecurity forum that legislators need the creation of a legal framework to regulate the operations conducted by law enforcement and intelligence-gathering organizations worldwide. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2015
The cyber security expert Ashiq JA analyzed the principal characteristics of APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) and AVT (Advanced Volatile Threat) . Cybercriminals and their techniques in the APT and AVT attacks “APT is an attack in the persistent memory that resides in the victims machine without getting noticed and the attacker exfiltrates sensitive information from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2015
Three months from the incursion in the network of the U.S. State Department e-mail system, US specialists are still working to secure the networks. In November 2014 the State Department has taken the unprecedented step of shutting down its entire unclassified email system in response to a suspected cyber attack. ‘Activity of concern’ was detected in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2015
A cyber Manhattan Project seems to have been on the move for over a decade, providing the US with a great advantage related to online surveillance. Despite belief, no defensive purposes have triggered its setting up. Everybody recalls the notorious Manhattan Project at the end of World War II, which has resulted in the development […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2015
Samsung smartTV send unencrypted voice recognition data and text information across the Internet without encrypt it, allowing hackers to capture them. A few days ago I was one of the first to publish the news about the Samsung privacy policy that reports smartTV are sending user voice data to third parties. “Samsung SmartTV transmits data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2015
The Us Justice Department’s proposal to grant FBI Rule 41Â specific hacking rights is under high scrutiny. While the amendment is being reviewed, the Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules will consider public objections, including a letter from Google. The amendment to the Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 41 (Rule 41) would expand jurisdiction for judges to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2015
A group of researchers has proposed a new technique dubbed PowerSpy to track mobile users’ location by analyzing data related to the power supply. A group of researchers at Stanford University and the Israeli defense company Rafael has discovered a way to track mobile devices by analyzing the power supply. The experts have proposed a technique […]
