Pierluigi Paganini
October 22, 2016
NewWorldHackers & Anonymous powered the massive DDoS attack against the Dyn DNS service that caused a serious Internet outage for many netizens. The cyber attacks against the Dyn DNS service that affected a huge portion of Internet users in the US is monopolizing the media. IT security experts have no doubts, hackers powered the massive DDoS attack […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 22, 2016
A number of Indian banks are adopting extraordinary measures fearing a security breach that could have exposed as many as 3.25 million debit cards. A number of Indian banks are adopting extraordinary measures fearing a security breach that could have exposed as many as 3.25 million debit cards (0.5 percent of the nearly 700 million […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 22, 2016
A massive DDoS attack targeted the Dyn DNS service and caused an extended Internet outage. How the attackers powered the attack? Yesterday a massive DDoS attack targeted the DNS service of the Dyn company, one of the most authoritative domain name system (DNS) provider, and caused an extended Internet outage. A large portion of Internet users was not able […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 22, 2016
Experts from the cyber security firm FireEye discovered a spear phishing campaign launched against visitors to the Ronald Reagan vessel in South China Sea. Chinese hackers targeted foreign government personnel who visited a US aircraft carrier the day before a contentious international court ruling on the South China Sea, According to the FireEye cyber security firm, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2016
A severe distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) it targeting the Managed DNS infrastructure of cloud-based Internet performance management company Dyn. A severe distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) it targeting the Managed DNS infrastructure of cloud-based Internet performance management company Dyn. Many users of major websites are not able to reach web services such as Twitter, GitHub, The list of affected websites […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2016
The US DoJ has charged the US contractor Harold Thomas Martin with theft of secret documents and highly classified government material. A couple of months ago, the FBI announced the arrest of an NSA contractor, Harold Thomas Martin III, over a massive secret data theft. The US DoJ has charged Harold Thomas Martin (51) with theft […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2016
A security researcher disclosed a vulnerability in the online banking service of the YesBank that promptly fixed the issue. I am a customer of YesBank and I hold my savings account with them. I also use the YesBank’s online banking application and I strongly feel that the application of the bank must be secured. So, as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2016
Experts disclosed a new Linux kernel vulnerability dubbed Dirty COW that could be exploited by an unprivileged local attacker to escalate privileges. The security expert Phil Oester discovered in the Linux kernel a new flaw, dubbed ‘Dirty COW‘ that could be exploited by a local attacker to escalate privileges. The name “Dirty COW” is due to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2016
Weebly, a San Francisco-based Drag-n-Drop website creator, will start sending notification letters to all of their customers due to a data breach. Another data breach is in the headlines, Weebly and Foursquare are the latest victims of the massive data breaches. According to data breach notification site LeakedSource, hackers compromised details for over 43 Million users. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 20, 2016
Experts from Kaspersky have discovered a new APT dubbed FruityArmor APT using a zero-day vulnerability patched this month by Microsoft. A new APT group, dubbed FruityArmor, targeted activists, researchers, and individuals related to government organizations. According to experts at Kaspersky Lab, the FruityArmor APT conducted targeted attacks leveraging on a Windows zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2016-3393, recently […]
