Pierluigi Paganini
May 29, 2016
According to the RT.com media agency the Russia is developing new kamikaze drones to use in surgical military operations. When you think about possible military uses of drones, surveillance and air strikes are the principal activities that we can imagine. According to the Russian media, the Russia is developing a kamikaze drone that could be used […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 27, 2016
This article is an excerpt from the book Secure & Simple: A Small-Business Guide to Implementing ISO 27001 On Your Own. Click here to see whatâs included in the book⊠When speaking with someone new to ISO 27001, very often I encounter the same problem: this person thinks the standard will describe in detail everything […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 26, 2016
Dozens of HTTPS-protected websites belonging to Visa are vulnerable to Forbidden Attack, nearly 70,000 servers are at risk. A new attack technique dubbed ‘Forbidden attack’ expose dozens of HTTPS Visa sites vulnerable to cyber attacks and roughly another 70,000 servers are at risk. A group of international researchers (Hanno Böck, Aaron Zauner, Sean Devlin, Juraj Somorovsky, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 26, 2016
Leaked WPAD queries could result in domain name collisions with internal network naming schemes exposing corporate to MITM attacks. The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team(US-CERT) issued the Alert (TA16-144A) to warn of leaked WPAD queries could result in domain name collisions with internal network naming schemes. The WPAD queries are intended for resolution on private or enterprise DNS […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 26, 2016
The researchers at the Tor project are working on a new distributed random number generator that will be included in the next-generation Tor. The researchers at the Tor project have elaborated a new way to generate random numbers to support security improvements of its next-generation onion router. The Random Number Generators are essential components for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 25, 2016
Daniel Kaufman announced that Google is planning to make password identifications outmoded by 2017 and replace them with trust scores. Google wants to replace traditional passwords on Android with âtrust scores,â  and it is planning to do it by 2017. The announcement was officialized at the Google I/O conference, the IT giant intends to use Google’s Trust API technology developed by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 24, 2016
What is a SOC? What is its mission? Which are the Security tools and technology components of a SOC? Here come all the answers. A definition What is a SOC? A Security Operations Center (SOC) is an organized and highly skilled team whose mission is to continuously monitor and improve an organizationâs security posture while […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 24, 2016
The FBI issued a notification warning actors in the private sector about a rapid diffusion of KeySweeper, a keystroke loggers disguised as USB phone chargers. The FBI is warning actors in the private sector about a rapid diffusion of stealthy keystroke loggers disguised as USB phone chargers. The FBI issued a Private Industry Notification warning of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 23, 2016
Japanese police are investigating coordinated raids across stores in Japan that resulted in the theft of $13m from ATMs in just three hours. Cybercrime doesn’t know boundaries, and in many countries, security experts are observing a rapid evolution of illegal phenomena on the web. The Japan actually hosts one of the most interesting underground communities, a criminal online […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2016
Cisco issued a series of patches for the AsyncOS operating on CISCO WSA that fix multiple high severity Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerabilities. Cisco has released security patches for the AsyncOS operating system that run on the Web Security Appliance, also called CISCO WSA. The security updates fix multiple high severity Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerabilities. Below the details […]
