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
December 12, 2013
ENISA releases the ENISA Threat Landscape 2013, it a collection of information on top cyber-threats that have been assessed in the reporting period. The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) published the ENISA Threat Landscape 2013 report, a document that was annually issued to analyze significant evolutions in the cyber-threat landscape. The ENISA has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 11, 2013
Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have detected a 64-bit Zeus banking trojan version enhanced with communication capability on the Tor network. Is Zeus banking trojan dead? Absolutely no! Periodically security experts found new a variant that includes new features to make it more resilient and able to spread itself via social networks. Last variant was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 10, 2013
The Guardian published documents that reveal NSA and GCHQ infiltrate gaming platforms and communities including World of Warcraft and Second Life NSA and British GCHQ are working to infiltrate the virtual world of online games considered as an attractive environment for cyber terrorists and hackers, this is the last chapter of the Snowden‘s Saga. The Guardian […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2013
Amazon announced the use of unmanned drones for Civilian purposes, Samy Kamkar has demonstrated how to build your UAV “Killer drone” to hijack them. Amazon company, the world’s largest online retailer, has recently announced that it is testing unmanned drones to deliver products ordered by the customers, the service could take up to five years […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 08, 2013
Google discovered the unauthorized use of digital certificates issued by an intermediate certificate authority linked to ANSSI for several Google domains. Google has revealed that late on December 3rd it became aware of unauthorized digital certificates for several Google domains and immediately has started the investigation. Security experts at Google found that the digital certificates […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 08, 2013
NSS Labs issued the report titled “The Known Unknowns” to explain dynamics behind the market of zero-day exploits. Last week I discussed about the necessity to define a model for “cyber conflict” to qualify the principal issues related to the use of cyber tools and cyber weapons in an Information Warfare context, today I decided […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 06, 2013
Cyber warfare or information warfare is still a gray area of the military doctrine, it is necessary to define the “model of conflict” and rules for the actors. Cyber war and cyber information warfare are two terms very inflated used to describe the current disputes within the cyberspace. To explain the effect of acts of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 05, 2013
JPMorgan Chase & Co has recently announced to have suffered a cyber attack in July that exposed 465,000 card users to data loss. JPMorgan Chase & Co has announced that it was the victim of a cyber attack and warned around 465,000 of its holders of prepaid cash cards on the possible exposure of their […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 05, 2013
Two Million stolen Facebook, Twitter login credentials were found on ‘Pony Botnet’ Command and Control Server by Trustwave’s researchers. Two Million social media credentials stolen by cybercriminals have been found by security experts at Trustwave’s SpiderLabs, the collection includes popular social media like Facebook and Twitter and popular websites such as Google and Yahoo. Trustwave’s SpiderLabs […]
