Monthly Archives: February 2013
MiniDuke hackers target European governments and researchers
By Pierluigi Paganini, Editor-in-Chief It’s a very difficult period for security researchers that in the last months have discovered various cyber espionage campaigns that hit governments, private businesses and intelligence agencies all […]
GlobalSign Leads the Pack of Certificate Authorities (CAs) as Market Innovator
CTO unveils the inner workings of the Certificate Authorities and his plans to shape their future Today, during the RSA Conference 2013, I had the opportunity to meet with the […]
Symantec Research – Stuxnet was dated 2005
By Pierluigi Paganini, Editor-in-Chief This is the news of the day … authors of Stuxnet virus that was used to sabotage Iranian nuclear program in 2010, according a study conducted by Symantec […]
New Zero-Day Vulnerabilities affect Java Earlier Versions
By Pierluigi Paganini, Editor-in-Chief Java, Java and once again Java, is popular framework and its vulnerabilities are becoming a really nightmare for security experts, billion of users and their machines […]
Security vulnerabilities menace privacy of millions of HTC devices
By Pierluigi Paganini, Editor-in-Chief The Federal Trade Commission has recently published a notice advisory titled “HTC America Settles FTC Charges It Failed to Secure Millions of Mobile Devices Shipped to […]
Emsisoft warns: various NBC websites hacked and spreading malware
Visitors to famous American broadcaster NBC’s websites are in danger of having their PCs infected with malicious software. A hitherto unknown organization has obtained access to the NBC webservers. The […]
Microsoft hacked … another enterprise targeted by hackers
The list of big enterprises hacked is lengthening, after Apple , Facebook, Twitter and major US press agencies such as NYT and The Washington Post, now it is Microsoft turn. Last Friday, Microsoft published a statement on […]
Pwnie Express Introduces New Penetration Testing Products During RSA 2013
Pwnie Express Heads to RSA with the New Enterprise Pentesting Appliance (EPA) and Announces the Release of the Pwn Pad and an Exciting Video Contest. Pwnie Express is showing up […]
Mandiant report links Anonymous 2011 hacks to APT1 campaign
By Pierluigi Paganini, Editor-in-Chief The new is very curious and represents the demonstration that cyber threats could not be analyzed separately, security need a global approach, we cannot distinguish between cybercrime and cyber […]
Anonymous hacked US State Dept, investment firm in homage to Aaron Swartz, Lulzsec
By Pierluigi Paganini, Editor-in-Chief #OpLastResort Anonymous hacked US State Dept The war of Anonymous against US institutions is continuing, few weeks ago the group of hacktivists hit Federal Reserve computers and now announced […]
After Twitter and Facebook also Apple has been hacked
By Pierluigi Paganini, Editor-in-Chief There is no peace for enterprises, in few weak we have discovered how much vulnerable are giants of IT, one after another, fell the most renowned […]
Government networks vulnerable to cyber attacks
By Pierluigi Paganini, Editor-in-Chief” In this days it is circulating persistently the news that The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection act (CISPA) will be reintroduced by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) […]
Mandiant Tracks Down Well Organized Chinese Hacking Group
Mandiant intelligence report on APT1 cyber espionage campaign by Pierluigi Paganini, Editor-in-Chief Early this month it was spread the news regarding a sophisticated cyber espionage campaign against principal media agencies […]
Facebook compromised by zero-day Java exploit
By Pierluigi Paganini, Editor-in-Chief In this last months we have registered numerous clamorous attacks against intelligence agencies, government offices, media and social networking platforms. Twitter was last victim in order […]
Botnets for rent, criminal services sold in the underground market
By Pierluigi Paganini, Editor-in-Chief Internet is becoming a mine for criminals that in easy way are able to access to any kind of resources to arrange a cyber attacks, a […]
Cybersecurity Strategy of the European Union – the proposal
By Pierluigi Paganini, Editor-in-Chief Last week the European Commission and Catherine Ashton, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, have submitted to the Council […]
Adobe 0-days exploited for IEEE aerospace spearphishing attacks
By Pierluigi Paganini, Editor-in-Chief” Last week Adobe released a patch for Adobe Flash that fixed a zero day vulnerability, CVE-2013-0633, that is being exploited using Microsoft Office files with embedded flash content delivered […]
Bit9 hacked, stolen digital certificates to sign malware
By Pierluigi Paganini, Editor-in-Chief The week ended in the worst way for the security company Bit9 that last Friday announced that hackers had stolen digital certificates from its network and have […]
CISPA reloaded, qui custodiet ipsos custode
By Pierluigi Paganini, Editor-in-Chief The news is alarming once again the worldwide internet community, The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection act (CISPA) will be reintroduced by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike […]
Does the US really think to leverage preemptive cyber attacks as a deterrent?
By Pierluigi Paganini, Editor-in-Chief There are a great number of activities in cyber space, whereby governments are secretly conducting a huge quantity of cyber operations,and every day we read about malicious code used […]
Federal Reserve computers hacked by Anonymous
By Pierluigi Paganini, Editor-in-Chief The hacktivists of Anonymous group are still very active and are continuing their campaign dubbed #OpLast Resort, this time hitting US financial world. The hackers have published […]
F-Secure Releases Threat Report: Closer Look at CyberSecurity Landscape
2H 2012 Threat Report: A closer look at the cybersecurity landscape by Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer, F-Secure Today, the most common way of getting hit by malware is by […]
US Department of Energy hit by a Sophisticated Cyber Attack
by Pierluigi Paganini, Editor-in-Chief It seems that suddenly US have discovered to be victim of a serious cyber espionage campaigns that are targeting every sector from media to military and […]
Cyber Newsflash for January 2013
Highlights of CYBER CRIME and CYBER WARFARE Newsclippings from All over the Globe Oil firms face soaring security bill after attacks 01/25/2013 04:18 (Reuters Top News) (Repeats Thursday report with no […]
Free Monthly Cyber Warnings Via Email
Enjoy our monthly electronic editions of our Magazines for FREE. This magazine is by and for ethical information security professionals with a twist on innovative consumer products and privacy issues […]
Cyber Defense Test Labs Next Generation Security Switch Spotlight
Next Generation Security Switch Spotlight Security teams usually use internal Security Information Event Management (SIEMs) to be their watchdog for alarming them about threats and risks behind their firewall. Many […]
Cyber Defense Test Labs Review: Emsisoft Anti-Malware 7.0
Introduction Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM) launched the Cyber Defense Test Labs (CDTL) to test and highlight some of the lesser known anti-virus players and next generation anti-malware solutions on […]
National Information Security Group Offers FREE Techtips
Have a tough INFOSEC Question – Ask for an answer and ‘YE Shall Receive Here’s a wonderful non-profit organization. You can join for free, start your own local chapter and […]
Cyber Crime and Cyber War Predictions for 2013
By Gary S. Miliefsky & Pierluigi Paganini. Read the full article in Cyber Defense Magazine during RSA Conference 2013.
Top Twenty INFOSEC Open Sources
Our Editor Picks His Favorite Open Sources You Can Put to Work Today There are so many projects at sourceforge it’s hard to keep up with them. However, that’s not […]