Pierluigi Paganini
March 14, 2014
TURBINE is the codename for a sophisticated hacking platform to take control of C&C servers managed by cybercrime. The NSA has been hijacking the botnets managed by cybercrime to its own purpose, this is the last revelation on questionable activities of the agency. Also this last revelation is based on documents leaked by Snowden, the news was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 04, 2014
Chris Soghoian, principal technologist with the American Civil Liberties Union, explained that government surveillance could exploit service update process. Chris Soghoian, principal technologist with the American Civil Liberties Union, during the recent TrustyCon conference highlighted the possibility that the government will exploit automated update services to serve malware and spy on users. Is this the next […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 25, 2014
Enjoy the reading CDM for free.We are thrilled to join you at the RSA Conference 2014 with our Second Annual Edition of Cyber Defense Magazine. YOUR E-MAGAZINE HAS ARRIVED SPONSORED BY RSA CONFERENCE 2014 FLIPBOOK http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/annual-editions/february-2014/index.html PDF http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/annual-editions/february-2014/Cyber-Defense-Magazine-Annual-Edition-2014.pdf MOBILE http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/annual-editions/february-2014/mobile/index.html Introduction Following the tradition I am imagining the evolution of the cyber security scenario for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2014
The Syrian Electronic Army has hacked Forbes WordPress CMS and has hijacked Twitter accounts belonging to the media agency. Who will be the next one? Forbes is the new victim of the popular group of hackers Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), the popular group pro Syrian President Assad. The hackers took responsibility for a coordinated attack against multiple […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2014
An unclassified NSA memorandum disclosed by the NBC News reveals Snowden allegedly managed to access classified documentation stealing coworker’s passwords. The hypothesis that Edward Snowden has operated using a simple web-crawler is very curious, how is it possible that a lonely consultant had access to a so huge collection of documents from NSA archives? Why Does […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2014
According an internal investigation Snowden has leaked the secret NSA’documents using a web crawler software designed to search, index and backup a website. The last assumption of the Snowden case is related to the way the whistleblower has collected the huge quantity of secret document from the National Security Agency (NSA). The leaked documents have shown […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 06, 2014
The Syrian Electronic Army claimed Wednesday that it managed to hack into Facebook violating an administrator account of the Facebook’s Domain Registrar. Syrian Electronic Army hit again, 2014 has started with the exploits of the popular group hackers that hit the giants of IT industry. Microsoft, PayPal, Ebay and also the CNN were hacked in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2014
The last update for the Facebook Android app reads user’s text messages, is it an abuse of privilege or what else? Here you are the truth … maybe A recent update for Facebook Android raised a great concern for user’s privacy because it can read text messages on the smartphone. The climate of suspicion after the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2014
The Obama Administration will assign the command of NSA to Michael S. Rogers, the US Government has chosen a military Expert on Information Warfare. The Obama Administration will assign the command of NSA to Michael S. Rogers, presently the U.S Navy’s Cyber Security Chief, will be the new Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2014
Ebay and PayPal hacked by Syrian Electronic Army, “For denying Syrian citizens the ability to purchase online products” said SEA. The group of hackers Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has monopolized the attention of the media, the hacking team has practically hit every possible target within government organizations, big enterprises and media agencies. The list of […]
