Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2013
Sky is a brand names for satellite television providers and channels, owned or partially owned by News Corporation an American diversified multinational mass media corporation headquartered in New York City, United States. The IT specialist, Fabio Natalucci, published a blog post related a vulnerability on the Italian web site that allows an attacker to perform a brute force attack […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2013
Today Twitter announced that has detected some suspect patterns related an unauthorized access attempts to Twitter user data, in a nutshell hackers breach Twitter this week and may they obtained access to authentication credentials and other information for as many as 250,000 user accounts. Bob Lord ,Director of Information Security, at Twitter wrote in a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 12, 2013
The year is start way for Oracle Java platform, a new Java 0-day vulnerability has been discovered and worldwide security community is very concerned on the potential effect of the bug. We have discovered how much dangerous could be the exploit of a zero-day vulnerability especially against institutional targets and governments (e.g. Elderwood project), state-sponsored hackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2013
IT community become familiar with the concept of zero-day vulnerability, no matter if it is related to SCADA system or mobile phone firmware, it could allow a hacker to silently interfere with user’s life, exposing it to serious risks. This time the product affected by the vulnerability is produced by Symantec, it is PGP Whole […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 31, 2012
It’s Christmas time everywhere but cyberspace there isn’t holiday time for governments, last week a new cyber espionage attack has been detected, the website for the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) was compromised. The CFR is a strategic target for espionage, it is one of the most elite foreign policy organizations in the United States with a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 30, 2012
No peace for mobile environment that due its impressive increase is attracting cyber criminals and hackers like never before. The researcher Atul Alex has presented at last edition of International Malware Conference (MalCon) how it is possible to attack every mobile devices with a special hardware designed using common electronic components. Atul Alex presented a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 29, 2012
Another victim of cyber attacks, the UN nuclear agency International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has confirmed that one of its servers was compromised by a group of hackers who claims to be anti-Israeli. The group of hackers who named itself Parastoo Farsi have exposed contacts for more than 100 nuclear experts and scientists, the word […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 20, 2012
Hacktivism attacks will not change Israeli policy but for sure their operations could represent a dangerous cyber threat for any government. Anonymous has started a cyber offensive against Israel to protest for the attacks on Gaza, the hacktivists have defaced and taken offline hundreds of websites, such as The Jerusalem bank and Israel’s Ministry of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 18, 2012
Few months and also in Italy the wireless industry will live its mobile connectivity revolution with the introduction of new generation of networks LTE (Long Term Evolution), high-speed networks claiming speeds that are up to four times faster than comparable 3G networks. But as happened with previous technologies its fundamental ask to ourselves how much […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 15, 2012
The news is circulating with insistence on the net, Skype is suffering from a vulnerability that can expose its users to serious risks, due this reason it has suspended the password reset process. The Russian Blog Pixus.ru has published a post where it is described a workaround to hijack the accounts of the famous application. […]
