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Pierluigi Paganini November 09, 2013
Search engines reconnaissance – The magic weapons

Search engines are formidable tools for reconnaissance, Google Hacking is essential knowledge for professionals searching for website vulnerabilities. Search engines are powerful tools for attackers that need to conduct passive reconnaissance, their use could help to gather information on the target network organization, application used and related vulnerabilities, sensitive documents and info on company personnel. […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 03, 2013
Google hacking – Automated website hacking tools based on Google dorks

Google Hacking is a formidable method for reconnaissance. Mass website hacking tools based on Google-dorks advantage the malicious online activities. Google hacking is a must for hackers and pen testers, the popular search engine is a mine of information for targeted analysis and reconnaissance phase. In the past we discussed on how to use Google […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 02, 2013
Finland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs hit by extensive cyber espionage

Finland’s foreign minister announced that foreign intelligence agents had carried out large-scale cyber espionage into government communications. The Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affair networks has been targeted in a cyber espionage operation lasting at least four years, the news has been reported by the Finnish commercial broadcaster MTV3. Finland’s foreign minister Erkki Tuomioja confirmed the shocking news, a large […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 28, 2013
Israel – AP Exclusive reveals tunnel hit by cyber attack

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
Subcontractors are for hackers the weakest link in security chain

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 24, 2013
Cyber Threat summit 2013 – Modern online-banking cybercrime

“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 12, 2013
NSA FOXACID servers used to drive the hack into target systems

NSA leaked documents reveals the existence of FOXACID servers that provides an automated hacking platform used to drive operators into hacking targets. Security expert Bruce Schneier revealed in a recent post that the NSA has a wide-ranging arsenal of zero-day exploits to use for cyber operations, mainly used for cyber espionage campaigns. The effort spent by government for the […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2013
How to exploit iFramed based traffic E-shop for illegal activities

What is an E-shop for iFramed traffic and how does cybercrime exploit it? In this post thanks to the investigation of the incredible Dancho Danchev I’ll try to answer to these questions. On numerous occasion I remarked the need to carefully observe the evolution of the underground market to identify dangerous trends that can leave portend a new wave of […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2013
How to create undetectable malware with Mac encryption mechanism

Researcher Daniel Pistelli demonstrated how to exploit Mac internally encryption mechanism to create an undetectable Mac OS X Malware. During the last couple of years the number of cyber threats that targeted Mac is increased significantly, the main reasons are the wide diffusion of Apple devices and lack of awareness of Apple users. In particular the number […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2013
Reading IBM X-Force 2013 Mid-Year Trend and Risk Report

IBM issued the X-Force 2013 Mid-Year Trend and Risk Report, a detailed analysis of current security landscape, including data on main cyber threats and information on mitigation techniques. IBM issued the X-Force 2013 Mid-Year Trend and Risk Report, a study that identifies Social media as the main target of cyber criminal activities. The powerful social networking […]