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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 04, 2013
German researchers demonstrated how a malware can infect system in air gapped networks and transfer stolen data using Inaudible Audio signals. The shocking news that it is possible to infect a computer with Inaudible Audio signals is circulating within the security community has been circulating for several weeks between denials and confirmations. In October the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 03, 2013
D-Link company has recently released a new version of firmware to fix backdoor vulnerability in various network device models. Last October the security expert Craig Heffner discovered a backdoor inside different D-Link routers. Craig published an interesting blog post on “/dev/ttyS0″ on the reverse engineering of the backdoor (CVE-2013-6027) present in many D-Link devices, it described how […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 03, 2013
Rafael Souza (CISOof hackers online club) introduces the fundamentals of Google Hacking ABSTRACT Readers, I introduce a little about a very interesting technique that is Google Hacking, is a key to investigate if we are doing a pentest, or protecting our organization or individual item. Google Hacking is the activity of using the site search […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 02, 2013
Security experts at Malwarebytes discovered Potentially Unwanted Programs like Toolbars and Search Agents that installed Bitcoin miners on user’s PC The value of the Bitcoin for a few days has passed the psychological threshold of one thousand dollars, confirming its growth trend, the attention in the virtual currency scheme is at the highest levels and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 02, 2013
Iranian report states that Israel and Saudi Arabia are plotting new computer cyber weapon to sabotage the Iranian nuclear program like happened with Stuxnet. Saudi spy agency, Mossad are collaborating in the design of malware worse than Stuxnet. The Fars agency reported that Israel and Saudi Arabia have started a joint collaboration for the development […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 01, 2013
FireEye Security Experts discovered Microsoft Windows XP and Server 2003 privilege escalation zero-day exploit Security experts at FireEye have discovered a new zero-day, a privilege escalation vulnerability in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. It’s is the eleventh vulnerability discovered by FireEye this year, really a great job for the researchers of the young company. The last zero-day flaw is coded […]
