Pierluigi Paganini
February 05, 2017
NATO’s Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE) has published ‘Tallinn Manual 2.0 on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Operations.’ Its world launch will be in Washington DC, February 8 at The Atlantic Council; followed by Europe at The Hague, February 13; and Tallinn, February 17. The manual will be available from February 8 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 05, 2017
The group of hacktivists Anonymous hacked the popular Freedom Hosting II Dark Web hosting provider, a fifth of the .onion websites is down. The collective Anonymous is back, this time the hacker groups breached Freedom Hosting II, a popular Dark Web hosting provider. After the closure of the original Freedom Hosting, Freedom Hosting II (FHII) become […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 05, 2017
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. First of all, let me inform you that at the #infosec16 SecurityAffairs was awarded as The Best European Personal Security Blog http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/48202/breaking-news/securityaffairs-best-european-personal-security-blog.html Hong Kong brokers blackmailed by hackers with DDoS Attacks Uber pays $9,000 bug bounty payoff for partner […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 05, 2017
Hackers compromised payment systems at 12 US properties of the InterContinental Hotels Group and stolen card data with a malware. The hospitality giant InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has confirmed that payment systems of 12 US hotels were victims of a massive data breach. Just a month ago the company InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) confirmed an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 04, 2017
PoliceOne, a forum used only by only verified law enforcement officials, has been hacked and data dump was offered for sale in a dark web market. A hacker has stolen over 700,000 user accounts the from a popular law enforcement forum PoliceOne and is offering for sale the entire database. The PoliceOne forum is used by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 04, 2017
The hacker that breached the systems of the mobile forensics company Cellebrite leaked online some tools and announced further releases. In January the Israeli mobile phone data extraction company Cellebrite was hacked, the company went in the headlines in the dispute between Apple and the FBI in the case of the San Bernardino shooterâs iPhone. The main […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 04, 2017
The Norwegian intelligence agency PST is one of the targets of spear phishing attacks launched by the Russian APT 29 group. The dreaded Russian APT 29 group is back, the Norwegian authorities accuse Russia of cyber attacks that hit the foreign ministry, intelligence and other institutions. “Nine different email accounts were targeted in an attempt at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2017
The US-CERT issued a security advisory to warn of a zero-day memory corruption vulnerability in the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol that can be exploited by a remote attacker. The US-CERT is warning of a zero-day memory corruption vulnerability in the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol that can be exploited to cause a denial of service condition or […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2017
According to the firm ProofPoint, Chinese state-sponsored actors continues to spy on military and aerospace organizations in Russia and Belarus. Chinese state-sponsored actors are spying on military and aerospace interests in Russia and Belarus. According to the experts from Proofpoint, the attacks began in the summer of 2016, the Chinese hackers launched a spear-phishing campaign leveraging […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2017
The experts at Cisco have discovered a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in the Cisco Prime Home during an internal security testing. Cisco has released a security update for CISCO Prime Home remote management and provisioning solution to fix a flaw that could be exploited to authentication bypass. The experts at Cisco have discovered the critical […]
