Pierluigi Paganini
November 11, 2015
My participation at the World Insight on CCTV discussing the Federal Aviation Administration regulation for the commercial drones. Q1 First of all, the Federal Aviation Administration gave a very compressed timeline. They’re asking a expert panel task force to make registration guideline recommendations by November 20 and these recommendations implemented by mid-December, so that 1 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 10, 2015
Experts from Check Point firm published a new report on the Rocket Kitten APT that include more insight into the activities of the group. Do you remember the Rocket Kitten ATP? The Rocket Kitten group has been suspected to be active since 2011 and have been increasing their activity since 2014. The main targets are based in the Middle […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2015
The Infernal-Twin is an automated tool designed for penetration testing activities, it has been developed to automate the Evil Twin Attack. The Infernal-Twin is an automated tool designed for penetration testing activities, it has been developed to assess wireless security by automating the Evil Twin Attack. “The tool was created to help the auditors and penetration testers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2015
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. Hackers have accessed details of 1,827 Vodafone customers How to steal Jaguar XFR cars in 60 seconds by hacking them Allegations of ISIS involvement in Flight 7K9268 crash not […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 04, 2015
The fourth member of the CryptoWall family of ransomware, CryptoWall 4.0, has just been released, complete with new features and a brand new look. We recently reported that CryptoWall 3.0 has allegedly caused over $325 million in annual damages. CryptoWall first emerged in April 2014. Its first major upgrade was dubbed CryptoWall 2.0, and first emerged in October […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 03, 2015
According to a German website, there is a new strain of ransomware dubbed Chimera that also threatens to publish personal data on the Internet. A new strain of ransomware is targeting German companies, it is named Chimera and this time crooks don’t limit their extortion scheme to the file encrypting, they are also threatening victims […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 01, 2015
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. Germany probes alleged new case of US espionage: Regin malware infected Gov laptop Alleged LulzSec member claims responsibility for the DDoS on TalkTalk This 11-year-old is selling cryptographically secure […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 28, 2015
The United States Department of Defense is still issuing SHA-1 signed certificates for its military agencies, despite they are considered insecure. Today I have published a blog post on the Army Vulnerability Response Program (AVRP), a sort of bug bounty program specific for the US military environment. The idea is to incentive the ethical disclosure of vulnerabilities […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2015
A group of experts has conducted a research that demonstrates the type of data that can be gathered through the forensic study of WhatsApp. A new research conducted by forensic researchers at the University of New Haven (F. Karpisek of Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic, and Ibrahim Baggili and Frank Breitinger, co-directors of the Cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 24, 2015
The CEO of TalkTalk confirmed personally receiving a ransom from the alleged attackers, a Russian Islamist group claimed the responsibility of the attack. TalkTalk Telecom Group plc has publicly disclosed that four million subscribers have been impacted by a “sustained cyberattack” that hit its servers. The TalkTalk CEO Dido Harding has now confirmed personally receiving a […]
