Intelligence

Pierluigi Paganini June 02, 2015
Bundestag, the Government confirmed a data breach and data leaks

The German Government confirmed that hackers that attacked the Bundestag two weeks ago have had access to data of the German Parliament. The German Government has confirmed that hackers who breached the Bundestag systems a couple of weeks ago have also stolen data from targeted network. A spokeswoman for the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, confirmed that unknown […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 31, 2015
Yemen Cyber Army will release 1M of records per week to stop Saudi Attacks

Hackers of the Yemen Cyber Army (YCA) had dumped another 1,000,000 records obtained by violating systems at the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The hacking crew known as the Yemen Cyber Army is continuing its campaign against the Government of Saudi Arabia. The Yemen Cyber Army (YCA) has released other data from the stolen archived belonging to the Saudi […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 30, 2015
US failed a Stuxnet-style attack against North Korea

New revelations came after a high-profile defector warns of that North Korea’s cyber army has the capability to run cyber attacks that could cause loss of human lives. According to an exclusive report by Reuters, The US was attempting without success to interfere with the nuclear programme of Pyongyang, in the same way it has done with Iran … SCADA systems […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 29, 2015
MI5 to Google and Whatsapp, hand me your messages

The Conservatives are planning new laws to give MI5 the power to force IT giants to hand over encrypted messages from terror suspects. Potential global terrorism threats are persuading to Conservatives in UK to move the pieces of chess by law; in advance of the world’s biggest internet companies, such as Google, Apple and Facebook […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2015
Mandrake, NSA identifies users based on how they type on their devices

According to a senior fellow for Lockheed IT, the National Security Agency has tested the use of smartphone-swipe recognition technology dubbed Mandrake. The NSA has developed a new technology, dubbed “Mandrake“, that can identify users from the way they swipe strokes and text on a smartphone screen. The news was reported by officials with Lockheed […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 23, 2015
Astoria, the Tor client designed to beat the NSA surveillance

A team of security researchers announced to have developed Astoria, a new Tor client designed to beat the NSA and reduce the efficiency of timing attacks. Tor and Deep web are becoming terms even popular among Internet users, the use of anonymizing network is constantly increasing for this reason intelligence agencies are focusing their efforts in its monitoring. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2015
The ISIS advances in the DeepWeb among Bitcoin and darknets

While members of the ISIS are continuing to explore the Deep Web for various activities, the US Intelligence plans activities to track them. The Dark Web is a privileged environment for cyber criminals and state-sponsored hackers due to the anonymity offered by its services. Unfortunately, another category of threat actors is exploiting the deep web, the terrorists, for […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2015
Unknown Hackers hit systems at Bundestag

The Bundestag has become the target of a significant cyber attack, hackers tried to compromise the internal network of the German Parliament. The German parliament Bundestag has officially confirmed media reports about a hacking attack that hit the Institution last week. “There has been an attack on the IT systems of the Bundestag,” spokesman Ernst […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 10, 2015
US SOCOM and The Special Forces to Scrutinize Social media

US SOCOM admitted that Counter-Terrorism Special Forces scrutinize FaceBook and other social media to handle potentially useful information. Exactly two years ago I wrote about the use of social media in the Military. I explained why social media platforms represent a powerful instrument for activities operated by governments and intelligence agencies. Modern social media networks are actively used by […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2015
We are not prepared for a cyber attack on Western energy infrastructure

The NSA veteran Chief General Keith Alexander fears crippling cyber-attack on Western energy infrastructure and warned that we are not prepared for that. Security experts are warning companies in the energy industry of possible cyber attacks and Western plants are more exposed to the cyber threats. Electric grids, oil refineries and power plants are the […]