Pierluigi Paganini
March 09, 2014
Security Experts at Bitdefender discovered a clickjacking Naked Video scam that already infected more that 2 millions Facebook users. Sex and social media is a dangerous mix abused by cyber criminals to hit a large number of users of most popular social networks. In the last couple of years the number of illicit activities on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 25, 2014
Enjoy the reading CDM for free.We are thrilled to join you at the RSA Conference 2014 with our Second Annual Edition of Cyber Defense Magazine. YOUR E-MAGAZINE HAS ARRIVED SPONSORED BY RSA CONFERENCE 2014 FLIPBOOK http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/annual-editions/february-2014/index.html PDF http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/annual-editions/february-2014/Cyber-Defense-Magazine-Annual-Edition-2014.pdf MOBILE http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/annual-editions/february-2014/mobile/index.html Introduction Following the tradition I am imagining the evolution of the cyber security scenario for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2014
The Syrian Electronic Army has hacked Forbes WordPress CMS and has hijacked Twitter accounts belonging to the media agency. Who will be the next one? Forbes is the new victim of the popular group of hackers Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), the popular group pro Syrian President Assad. The hackers took responsibility for a coordinated attack against multiple […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 06, 2014
The Syrian Electronic Army claimed Wednesday that it managed to hack into Facebook violating an administrator account of the Facebook’s Domain Registrar. Syrian Electronic Army hit again, 2014 has started with the exploits of the popular group hackers that hit the giants of IT industry. Microsoft, PayPal, Ebay and also the CNN were hacked in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2014
The last update for the Facebook Android app reads user’s text messages, is it an abuse of privilege or what else? Here you are the truth … maybe A recent update for Facebook Android raised a great concern for user’s privacy because it can read text messages on the smartphone. The climate of suspicion after the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2014
Ebay and PayPal hacked by Syrian Electronic Army, “For denying Syrian citizens the ability to purchase online products” said SEA. The group of hackers Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has monopolized the attention of the media, the hacking team has practically hit every possible target within government organizations, big enterprises and media agencies. The list of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 01, 2014
Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM) CYBER WARNINGS JANUARY 2014 EDITION is available for free. Yes, 2014 is here and we’re surrounded by more and more personally identifiable information (PII) theft, as predicted. Keep an eye on these at http://www.privacyrights.org and find out that we all have common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) which are searchable here at the National Vulnerability Database […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 29, 2014
A post on cybersecurity written by Larry Karisny, director of ProjectSafety.org,a cybersecurity expert,advisor,consultant, writer and industry speaker. Most of the recent attention on cybersecurity has been directed toward the disclosure of NSA activities and recent corporate breaches now reaching record-breaking levels. Both the public and private sectors are beginning to witness how devastating cyber breaches […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 26, 2014
Attackers breached the email accounts of Microsoft staff, probably with a spear phishing attack, accessing to documents on law enforcement inquiries. Spear phishing attacks are within most insidious attacks for private companies and organizations, they are primarily caused for data breach occurred in the last couple of years. Despite the awareness of this type of cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 23, 2014
Researchers Winter and Lindskog identified 25 nodes of Tor network that tampered with web traffic, decrypted the traffic, or censored websites. Two researchers, Philipp Winter and Stefan Lindskog of Karlstad University in Sweden, presented the results of a four-month study conducted to test Tor network exit nodes for sneaky behavior, it has been discovered that a not specified Russian […]
