Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2013
MacRumors, the Mac news and information website and user forums, was hacked, more than 860,000 accounts were potentially compromised. MacRumors, the popular Mac news and information website and user forums have been hacked this week, according the first news circulating on the internet more than 860,000 accounts were potentially compromised on the total of 1.8 million registered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 04, 2013
Security expert Jay Freeman discovered another Master Key vulnerability in Android 4.4 that allows attackers to inject malicious code in legit apps. The flaw known as “Android Master Key vulnerability” is considered a nightmare for Android OS, last July it was discovered for the first time and experts revealed that 99% of Android devices are vulnerable. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2013
Arbor Networks has published a quarterly report based on data pulled from ATLAS which includes new insight into DDoS attack trends having worrying characteristics. Arbor Networks has issued the report on global DDoS attack trends for the first three quarters of 2013, the report revealed that this kind of attack still represents a serious menace for IT […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 28, 2013
An identity theft service that sells personal information on millions of US citizens has been hacked. Millions of US citizens exposed to Id Theft. Around 5 Millions of Americans are exposed to the concrete risk of identity theft, this is one of most clamorous and grotesque case of data breach, hackers stolen data on US citizens that were stored in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 10, 2013
Security experts continues to observe the evolution of the offer of services and malicious software for fraudsters in the Android underground mobile market. In the last months security firms have observed an increase in criminal activities that exploited Android OS supported by the proactive evolution of the offerings in the underground mobile market. Dancho Danchev is considered one of most accredited experts of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 05, 2013
The majority of financial service professionals considers Man In The Browser as the greatest threat to online banking, cybercrime increases its use. Man In The Browser attack, DDoS attacks, phishing are most insidious cyber threats against banking institutions. Last statistics proposed by principal security firms confirm that online banking is considered a lucrative business for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 09, 2013
China and US governments continue to exchange accusations about the continuing incursions into the respective national networks. China and US governments continue to exchange accusations about the continuing incursions into the respective national networks, the cyber attacks are mainly motivated by sabotage and cyber espionage purposes and are increasing exponentially. US government and intelligence agencies […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 22, 2013
When the HTTP protocol was born in 1999, no one ever thought it will be used by one of the most dangerous Cyber threats called Botnet. A bot is an application that can perform and repeat a particular task faster than a human. When a large number of bots infect different targets (e.g. Computers and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 24, 2013
Last week was monopolized by the discussion on cyber attacks that hit North and South Korea, but I found a news equally stunning, researchers at Hungary-based CrySyS Lab have discovered a decade-long cyber espionage campaign that targeted high-level political and industrial entities in Eastern Europe. The attackers, dubbed by security researchers TeamSpy, used the popular remote-access […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2013
Early this month it was spread the news regarding a sophisticated cyber espionage campaign against principal media agencies in the US, included NYT and Washington Post, the hackers have tried to compromise the email account of journalists to steal sensitive information. The campaign appeared very aggressive, the hackers have tried to infiltrate the network of […]
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