Pierluigi Paganini
May 21, 2013
Governments, and in particular US one, are principal buyers of zero-day vulnerabilities according a report published by Reuters. Zero-days exploits are considered a primary ingredient for success of a cyber attack, the knowledge of zero-day flaw gives to the attacker guarantee of success, state-sponsored hackers and cyber criminals consider zero-day exploits a precious resources around […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2013
Operation Hangover is the title of a report published by Norman Shark that details a sophisticated cyberattack infrastructure that appears to originate from India, conducted by private threat actors with no evidence of state-sponsorship. Operation Hangover, this is the name assigned by Norman Shark’s security analyst team to an interesting report revealing a large and sophisticated cyber-attack […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 19, 2013
Yahoo Japan Corp is investigating on a possible data breach that may have exposed 22 million user IDs stolen during an unauthorized access to web portal. Yahoo Japan Corp is investigating on a possible data breach that exposed the user IDs of 22 million accounts, another shocking event that raise the necessity to improve security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 18, 2013
The popular security expert Nir Goldshlager found a serious vulnerability that allows attackers to post spoofed messages from any application on Facebook. Facebook has many vulnerabilities exactly as any other software and daily hackers try to exploit them, the primary concerns of security experts are related to flaws in the popular social network that could all […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 16, 2013
US Air Force published a notice that includes a paragraph on the use of social media platforms for computer network exploitation. In the recent months I had the opportunity to conduct an interesting study on the use of Social Media in the Military Sector, large diffusion of media platforms makes them very attractive for governments […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 14, 2013
The monitoring of the criminal underground is essential to understand the dynamics of cybercrime and related offer on the black market. At fixed intervals I decided to take a look at what is happening in the underground black market analyzing how evolves its offer and the related sales models. In the last months it has been […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 12, 2013
Apple can “bypass the security software” if it chooses, accoring ATF no law enforcement agency could unlock a defendant’s iPhone except Apple that has created a police waiting list because of high demand. Apple is considered an impregnable fortress, the main functions provided by the iOS operating system and related data are inaccessible to ill-intentioned but […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 11, 2013
The biggest Bank robbery realized by a gang of hackers, a global network of cyber criminals operating in 26 countries stole $45 million hacking into a database of prepaid debit cards. The news on the biggest bank robbery with a cyber attack against ATMs in the history is conquering the Network, US law enforcement has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 10, 2013
Google is a mine of information that could be used for various purposes, for this reason National Security Agency realized a book to help its spies uncover intelligence hiding on the web. Few days ago I published an interested article inspired by security expert Dancho Danchev and focused on the use of Google Dorks based tool […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 09, 2013
China and US governments continue to exchange accusations about the continuing incursions into the respective national networks. China and US governments continue to exchange accusations about the continuing incursions into the respective national networks, the cyber attacks are mainly motivated by sabotage and cyber espionage purposes and are increasing exponentially. US government and intelligence agencies […]
