politics

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2018
Japanese government’s cybersecurity strategy chief has never used a computer

The Japanese government’s cybersecurity strategy chief Yoshitaka Sakurada is in the middle of a heated debate due to his admission about his cyber capability. Yoshitaka Sakurada admitting he has never used a computer in his professional life, despite the Japanese Government, assigned to the politician the responsibility for cybersecurity of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Sakurada was only […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2018
Russian APT28 espionage group targets democratic Senator Claire McCaskill

The Russia-linked APT28 group targets Senator Claire McCaskill and her staff as they gear up for her 2018 re-election campaign. The Russian APT group tracked as Fancy Bear (aka APT28, Pawn Storm, Sofacy Group, Sednit, and STRONTIUM), that operated under the Russian military agency GRU, continues to target US politicians. This time the target is Senator Claire McCaskill and her staff as […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 20, 2018
Microsoft uncovered and stopped attempts to launch spear-phishing attacks on three 2018 congressional candidates

Microsoft helped the US Government is protecting at least three 2018 midterm election candidates from attacks of Russian cyberspies. Microsoft revealed that Russian cyberspies attempted to hack at least three 2018 midterm election candidates and it has helped the US government to repeal their attacks. A Microsoft executive speaking at the Aspen Security Forum revealed the hacking attempts against […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 10, 2016
Researcher arrested and charged for hacking elections websites

The security expert David Levin was arrested and charged after discovering  serious security flaws on a couple of election websites in Florida. The security researcher David Levin, the owner of Vanguard Cybersecurity, was arrested and charged after discovering  serious security flaws on a couple of elections websites in Florida. In December Levin discovered that the elections website […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 05, 2013
Confidential documents from Japanese politics stolen by malware

Last December Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency was hit again by malware  that stolen secret information on newest rockets from an internal computer, it was not first time for the Japanese agency that was already victim of a cyber attack having same purpose, cyber espionage to obtain information on another technological advanced project related to the […]