Pierluigi Paganini
February 26, 2016
A judge has confirmed that US Departement of Defense funded the Carnegie Mellon University to conduct research on the Tor hacking. In November 2015, the researchers at the Tor Project publicly accused the FBI of paying the experts at the Carnegie Mellon University to deanonymize Tor users. The experts at the Tor Project collected information about the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 25, 2016
The Operation BlockBuster Coalition has disclosed the results of its investigation on the activities of the Lazarus Group that is believed to be behind the Sony Pictures hack. State-sponsored hackers allegedly behind the Sony Pictures hack have been linked to other security breach suffered by a number of companies in South Korea. The FBI blamed the North Korea, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2016
MasterCard announced the extension of the ‘pay-by-selfie’ facial recognition technology to 14 countries this summer, this means no more passwords. The giant multinational financial services corporation MasterCard announced the extension of the ‘pay-by-selfie’ facial recognition technology to 14 countries this summer. In October Mastercard announced the creation of a new payment method based on the Identity Check […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2016
The representatives of the Utah State confirmed that their systems experiences 300,000 hacking attacks a day due to the presence of the NSA Data Center. The Utah state computer systems experience 300,000 hacking attacks a day due to the presence of the NSA data center in the state. The Utah Data Center, also known as the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2016
While discussing the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, Apple executives said the password changed while it was under the government custody. The discussion about the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone has monopolized media in this week, a US magistrate ordered Apple to help unlock the mobile device, but the company refused to do so. A new shocking […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2016
In a recent investigation case, security researchers at Sucuri revealed that 26,000 different WordPress sites were exploited to launch Layer 7 distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. In a recent investigation case, security researchers at Sucuri revealed that 26,000 different WordPress sites were generating a sustained rate of 10,000 to 11,000 HTTPS requests per second […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2016
2015 awards – For the fifth year in succession the AV-TEST Institute is awarding firms that offered the most efficient IT protection solutions. On February 17, 2016, the independent institute AV-TESTÂ is awarding the AV-TEST AWARDs to companies who developed antivirus software in 2015. The awards were assigned to products grouped in the categories “PROTECTION”, “PERFORMANCE” […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2016
Comodo Internet Security, in the default configuration, installs an application called GeekBuddy that also installs a VNC server enabled by default. The hackers of the Google Project Zero Team have found another serious security issue in the Comodo’s protection software, it is a VNC server enabled by default with a password easy to guess. It […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2016
According to a report published by Risk Based Security more than tens of thousands of DVRs are exposed on the Internet with a hardcoded password. According to a report published by Risk Based Security (RBS), the firmware of DVRs manufactured by China-based Zhuhai RaySharp contains hardcoded credentials that could be used by a remote hacker […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2016
In May 2015, the Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 published a report on a Trojan called OceanLotus that was being used since 2012 for APT attacks in the Chinese market. The APT attacks based  on the OceanLotus focused on government organizations, research institutes, maritime agencies, and companies specializing in other activities. At the time were […]
