Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2017
A study conducted by the security firm Rapid7 revealed that millions of devices remain exposed to cyber attacks via SMB, Telnet, RDP, and other types of improper configurations. Rapid7 published the second report National Exposure Index that provides Internet service providers (ISPs) worldwide information about the global exposure of devices. The researchers scanned the Internet for improperly configured services, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2017
Companies operating Industrial Control Systems (ICS) have a special set of challenges to deal with. Which is the state of the art? The equipment was expected to be installed and left alone for a long time. Pressures to reduce operating costs led to this equipment being connected, and the easiest networking equipment to find was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 30, 2017
According to a report published by Juniper Research, the economic impact of cybercrime is expected to reach $8 trillion price tag over the next five years. According to a report published by Juniper Research, the number of data records that will be compromised in security breaches in 2017 will reach 2.8 billion. The economic impact of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 27, 2017
A study conducted by the Ponemon Institute shows insecure Medical devices are enlarging the surface of attacks for organizations. A study conducted by the Ponemon Institute, based on a survey of 550 individuals, shows that manufacturers and healthcare delivery organizations (HDO) are concerned about cyber attacks on medical devices. 67 percent of medical device makers and 56 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2017
Microsoft published the biannual transparency report – The number of US foreign intelligence surveillance requests more than doubled. Microsoft shared data included in the biannual transparency report, the IT giant received more than double what the company said it received under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during the preceding six months. Microsoft Corp announced […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 03, 2017
[By Cesare Burei, Margas on courtesy of @CLUSIT â Rapporto Clusit 2017 – All right reserved] Until the corporate Risk Managers dealing with Cyber Risk, and there are not many of these, start working at all levels, who shall be entrusted with the management of Cyber Risks and, more specifically, with the transfer of risk […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2017
The report shows a disconcerting reality, the number of targeted attacks on the ICSs deployed in the Industrial sector continues to increase. The Kaspersky Labâs ICS-CERT has published a report on the threat landscape for industrial automation systems (ICSs) related to second half of 2016. The report shows a disconcerting reality, the number of targeted attacks on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 26, 2017
How much costs a DDoS attack service? Kaspersky Lab published an analysis on the cost of a DDoS attack and services available in the black markets. The DDoS attacks continue to be a profitable business in the cyber criminal underground. Powering a DDoS attack against an organization is even cheaper, running an attack can cost […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 17, 2017
Imperva published the Global DDoS Threat Landscape Q4 2016, according to the experts the US, the UK and Netherlands are top attacked countries. Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks continue to represent a serious threat to organizations worldwide. The attacks are growing in size and level of sophistication according to the new report ‘Global DDoS Threat […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 06, 2017
Researchers at ThreatMetrix observed that online financial services and lending companies were the most targeted by crooks in 2016. Online financial services, lending companies, and alternative payment systems are privileged targets of threat actors. According to the researchers at the security firm ThreatMetrix, the number of cyber attacks against online lending companies and alternative payment systems […]
