Pierluigi Paganini
February 25, 2014
Largest Bitcoin exchange MtGox shut down after it had announced to have suffered technical issues that forced the exchange to suspend withdrawals for a week. The worldâs largest Bitcoin exchange MtGox has shut down its website, suspending any activities, the news is that to be frightening, a real earthquake that raises a series of reflections […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 07, 2014
According to NBC News, Olympics attendees are being hacked just the arrive in Sochi,  the reporter Richard Engel demonstrated it conducting an experiment. Sochi Olympics are starting, but Intelligence agencies of all participating governments fear the possibility of an terrorist attack or a cyber attack. The event is a great occasion for hackers, hacktivists and cyber criminals which […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 07, 2014
A report issued by The Federal Government’s Track Record provides a scaring picture on cybersecurity for US Government entities. The US Government is a privileged target for cybercriminals, state-sponsored hackers and hacktivists, for years now, officials and politicians have warned of the risks related to a cyber attack. Leon Panetta, former Director of the Central […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 05, 2014
Intelligence officials now view the threat from counterintelligence, foreign spying and the leaking, as the No. 2 danger facing the country. Top U.S. Intelligence officials released a new Worldwide Threat Assessment Report during a Senate hearing last week, they highlighted the top risks to national security. Let’s give a look to the list, cybersecurity is still perceived […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 05, 2014
Barnaby Jack is dead of an accidental drug overdose according the results provided by the San Francisco’s medical examiner’s office. Who or what killed Barnaby Jack? The answer is overdosing on drugs according to the results of the autopsy conducted by the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office on Friday. Barnaby Jack was a famous hacker, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 24, 2013
RSA published a blog post to deny the accusation about secret partnership with the National Security Agency and the use of flawed algorithm in its product. A couple of days ago on Internet was spread the news that Security firm RSA has signed a $10 million contract with the National Security Agency (NSA) to maintain […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 21, 2013
Last revelation based on the documents leaked by Edward Snowden is related to the allegedly encryption backdoor inserted by RSA in the BSafe software. Is it possible to insert an encryption backdoor in one of most popular cryptographic products? Probably it is just a question of money if the request came from the NSA, according […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 16, 2013
Interview with the security experts Andrey Komarov and Dan Clements of IntelCrawler to analyze significant evolutions in the cyber-threat landscape. Today I desire to propose an interview with Andrey Komarov, CEO of IntelCrawler and Dan Clements, President of IntelCrawler. IntelCrawler is a multi-tier intelligence aggregator, which gathers information and cyber prints from a starting big […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2013
Finland’s foreign minister announced that foreign intelligence agents had carried out large-scale cyber espionage into government communications. The Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affair networks has been targeted in a cyber espionage operation lasting at least four years, the news has been reported by the Finnish commercial broadcaster MTV3. Finland’s foreign minister Erkki Tuomioja confirmed the shocking news, a large […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2013
Google might have the access to WiFi passwords of customers stored in Android mobile devices due a built-in feature in the Android OS. Google company might know every WiFi password in the world used by every single Android user, and extraordinary amount of sensitive data could be exposed. According a Michael Horowitz post published on […]
