NIST

Pierluigi Paganini October 25, 2013
US government released draft for NIST cybersecurity framework

NIST released the draft of cybersecurity framework, which outlines how private companies can protect themselves against cyberattacks, and security breaches. The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a draft of the cybersecurity framework for private companies and infrastructure networks as part of  President Obama’s executive order. The order has the primary goal to improve the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2013
NIST – National Vulnerability Database website hacked

The news is curious as it is worrying, unknown hackers have violated the US government repository of standards based vulnerability management website, known as National Vulnerability Database (NVD), last week. The NVD website appears down since last Friday, fortunately while I’m writing is up again, the attackers have compromised at least two servers with a […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2012
GAO invites FDA to improve Information Security for medical devices

In the last decade the number of cyber incidents related to technologies that surround us is growth exponentially, the principal concerns are related to all those objects with an “intelligent component” that we daily use and that we expose on internet for different purposes. This category includes also the Medical devices, elements with increasing complexity […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 02, 2012
Malware & cyber espionage, ongoing attacks on sensitive information

Malware once were used primarily to destroy the victim’s PC, but the scenario has completely changed today. While surviving the need of wanting to harm with malicious software, for example in the development of cyber weapons, the current trend is to develop agents that serve primarily to the function of spying. Cybercrime, governments, and groups […]