Pierluigi Paganini
September 24, 2015
According to the a statement by OPM Press Secretary Sam Schumach on Background Investigations Incident OPM breach included 5.6 Million Fingerprints. The press secretary of the Office of Personnel Management, Sam Schumach, announced that the data breach suffered by the OPM exposed approximately 5.6 million sets of fingerprints belonging to federal employees, contractors, and other members of the staff. In […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 12, 2015
According to an investigation by the GCHQ intelligence agency ISIS hackers targeted information held by some of David Cameron’s most senior ministers. According the experts at the British Intelligence GCHQ, ISIS hackers intercept top secret British Government emails. The investigation conducted by the GCHQ allowed the British intelligence to uncover a serious breach, terrorists linked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 06, 2015
The US Justice Department issued guidelines for StingRay Surveillance devices, new rules define aim to ensure privacy protection and transparency. Do you know what is a StingRay? If you want further details give a look to a post I wrote for the Infosec Institute on the StingRay Technology: “StingRay is an IMSI-catcher (International Mobile Subscriber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 05, 2015
Security researchers have uncovered a group of fake recruiting accounts on LinkedIn used for intelligence gathering about security experts. A group of fake recruiter accounts is abusing the LinkedIn professional social network to send invitations to security professionals in various industries. The fake recruiters attempt to deceive targets usually by using a LinkedIn profile with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 03, 2015
Dark Web Intelligence could help law enforcement and intelligence agencies to gather information on potential attacks. Which are the risks? The increased number of cyber attacks against government entities and the hypothesis that the U.S. government should take an offensive strike against hackers who hit the countries raised the discussion on the problem of the attribution. Prevention, mitigation and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 31, 2015
The jihadist hacker Junaid Hussain was killed this week in a US targeted air strike in Syria. The man was actively recruiting ISIS sympathizers. A spokesman for the US Central Command, Colonel Patrick Ryder, confirmed that the jihadist hacker Junaid Hussain was killed in a targeted air strike on August 24 in Raqqa, Syria. Colonel […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 30, 2015
The experts at EFF organization speculate that Russian State-sponsored hackers belonging the APT 28 group have managed the last EFF Spear phishing Scam. Attackers, alleged to belong to a Russian state-sponsored APT registered a bogus Electronic Frontier Foundation domain earlier this month. The hackers used the name brand of popular privacy watchdog in an attempt to trick […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 28, 2015
An agreement between the German intelligence agency BfV and the NSA allows the access to the XKeyscore platform to return of data on German citizens. The German weekly Die Zeit disclosed documents that reveal how the German Intelligence did a deal with the NSA to get the access to the surveillance platform XKeyscore. Internal documents show that Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 24, 2015
Security experts at FireEye uncovered a cyber espionage campaign that targeted organizations in India and the Tibetan activists. Security firm FireEye revealed an intense activity of hackers based in China particularly interested in entities and organization linked to the Indian Government as well as in information on Tibetan activists. Also in this case we are dealing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 19, 2015
The US National Security Agency has utilized an exceptional, decades-old association with AT&T to snoop on Internet utilization, as per recently uncovered reports spilled by Edward Snowden. The archives gave by the previous NSA foreman and checked on by The New York Times and ProPublica portrayed a “profoundly synergistic” telecom titan that showed a “great […]
