Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2014
A group of hackers dubbed DERP has created a super tool to coordinate multi protocol DDoS reflection attacks as explained by Melbourne-based Micron21 firm. For the first time ever a hacking group coordinated a range of different DDoS reflection attacks against a data center of the firm Melbourne-based Micron21, the attack occurred on August 2nd. The experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 26, 2014
Authorities confirmed that 27 million individuals in South Korea suffered a data breach, nearly 70 percent of the population aged between 15 and 65 was hit. A new massive data breach hit more that 27 million people in South Korea, according to the authorities stolen data comes from the gaming industry. It isn’t the first time that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2014
FBI is warning businesses operating in the healthcare industry on possible cyber attacks. The FBI is alerting the healthcare industry companies on potential cyber attacks, the law enforcement are warning companies after the attack on U.S. hospital group Community Health Systems Inc that caused the theft of millions of patient records. “The FBI has observed malicious actors targeting healthcare related systems, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2014
Experts working at US and UK Intelligence agencies on monthly base leak Tor vulnerabilities to the developers at the Tor Project. The BBC reported that the executive director of the Tor Project revealed that both US and UK intelligence agencies share bugs anonymously with Tor developers. The circumstance is quite surprising considering that both NSA and GCHQ […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 24, 2014
Location services are considered a serious threat to privacy because data managed by company like Google could be used for online surveillance. Many experts consider privacy a utopia, every activity we make online is constantly tracked and in many cases principal service providers manage much more information than needed. Google company has been accused many times […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 24, 2014
Researchers demonstrated a new side channel attack which allow them to steal encryption keys by simply touching a laptop. Yesterday I published a post on an interesting research conducted by a the team of experts which demonstrated an attack exploits “a newly discovered public side channel” allowing threat actor to access the shared memory statistics of an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 22, 2014
Researchers have developed a malware which exploits “a newly discovered public side channel” which allows the access to the shared memory statistics of an app’s process. Researchers have developed a proof-of-concept malware running on an Android OS that can silently syphon sensitive data from mobile apps on Android, iOS and Windows Phone with up to a 92% success rate. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 22, 2014
The day after the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 hackers stole classified data from the computers of senior officials involved in the investigation. Just after the incident occurred to the Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 a spear phishing attack targeted 30 government officials and bad actors have stolen classified documents relating to the missing Flight MH370. “The computers of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 22, 2014
A new study conducted by security researchers at the University of Michigan demonstrated that it is easy to hack traffic light systems. Hacking Traffic lights is a serious menace for the population, many individuals believe that it is possible only in the movies, but unfortunately is a scaring reality. In May I anticipated you an interesting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 21, 2014
Operation Arachnophobia is a cyber espionage campaign originated in Pakistan descovered by experts from FireEye and ThreatConnect. Researchers from FireEye and ThreatConnect recently conducted a joint investigation on a series of targeted attacks that could be linked to the Pakistan. As explained by the experts the hacking campaign uncovered by experts is the demonstration that hackers […]
