Pierluigi Paganini
October 29, 2013
Exploring the Business Intelligence module proposed by the online course of the Hacker Academy – Intro to reconnaissance phase for a penetration testing. One of the most important components of the reconnaissance process in pen testing activity is the business intelligence. Once chosen the target it is important to gather business information on it before […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 28, 2013
Syrian Electronic Army Targeted President Obama’s website, Twitter and Facebook accounts and email account linked to his non-profit activities. Once again Syrian Electronic Army, the pro-Assad group claims it has hacked the President Barack Obama’s website, the social media accounts belonging to him on Twitter and Facebook and it violated the email accounts linked to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 28, 2013
Cybersecurity experts revealed that a major artery in Israel’s national road network located in the northern the city of Haifa suffered a cyber attack. Israel is considered one of the most advanced country in cyber security, but at the same time is a privileged target for hostile governments intent in sabotage and cyber espionage on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2013
Hackers use to target subcontractors to hit big enterprises due the poor level of security they offer, in the energy sector this trend is very concerning. Let’s follow the discussion on the hacking world and the way hackers impact business with their activities. We discussed about the role of hackers for companies and their employment […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 25, 2013
NIST released the draft of cybersecurity framework, which outlines how private companies can protect themselves against cyberattacks, and security breaches. The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a draft of the cybersecurity framework for private companies and infrastructure networks as part of President Obama’s executive order. The order has the primary goal to improve the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 24, 2013
“Modern online-banking cybercrime” -The presentation analyzes current context for cybersecurity in Banking focusing on cyber threats and countermeasures. Today I presented at Cyber Threat Summit 2013 the topic “Modern online-banking cybercrime“, the presentation analyzes current context for cybersecurity in Banking focusing on cyber threats and countermeasures. The agenda is: Intro Phishing attacks Malware Based Attacks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 24, 2013
Google has just revealed the details on tree new technologies, uProxy, Digital Attack Map and Project Shield, to secure the web and to fight censorship. This week Google launched the Project Shield, an initiative sustained by the company to protect enterprises from DDoS attack that are becoming a serious problem for Internet infrastructures. Google is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 22, 2013
Experts Werrett and Lee demonstrated how to conduct a powerful analysis using FBStalker, a tool created to find a comprehensive amount of data on any Facebook user. Facebook, and more in general social networks, is a platform that if not properly managed could harm user’s privacy, the fact that also friends’ social behavior could have […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2013
Craig Heffner has discovered a new backdoor in the Wireless Routers produced by China based networking device and equipment manufacturer Tenda Technology. Just a week ago I wrote on a serious backdoor found by researcher Craig Heffner within the D-Link routers, today I’m here describing a new flaw discovered in the Wireless Routers produced by China […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 20, 2013
Security Experts at Sophos have detected a new phishing campaign against the Italian brand Poste Italiane that makes use of an efficient social engineering technique. Sophos experts detected this week an intriguing case of phishing against the Italian postal service Poste Italiane, the scheme attracted the researcher’s attention due the reuse of an old social […]
