Pierluigi Paganini
August 03, 2015
The US will strike back China in response to the recent wave of cyber attacks against Government offices, including the Office of Personnel Management. Recently, the New York Times published an article saying that the president of the United States, Barack Obama took the decision to retaliate against China, after the famous hack of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 28, 2015
Metadata acquired due to the NSA surveillance programs was ruled illegal by a court in May 2015. The NSA will lose access to its metadata in Nov. 29. According to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the NSA will destroy millions of US phone records collected during its investigation. The process will […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 20, 2015
A recent FBI memo warns phishing attacks targeted government agencies trying to exploit the CVE-2015-5119 vulnerability linked to Hacking Team data breach. According to an FBI warning, hackers have targeted US Government agencies using a recently patched Adobe Flash vulnerability (CVE-2015-5119). The Adobe Flash vulnerability was one of the flaws discovered by analyzing the 400Gb archive […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 20, 2015
According to a new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), The Federal Government needs for stronger controls across Federal Agencies. According to a report submitted as testimony by Greg Wilshusen, director of information security issues at GAO, in a recent congressional hearing cybersecurity incidents that involved federal government have increased more than 1,000 percent since 2006. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2015
The former Secretary of Defense William Cohen revealed that the US power grid is vulnerable to terror attacks, a major cyber attack was a matter time. Security experts and US politicians are aware that the power grid is vulnerable to a terrorist attack. Nation’s power grid is a privileged target for terrorists as explained by the former […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 30, 2015
New revelations came after a high-profile defector warns of that North Korea’s cyber army has the capability to run cyber attacks that could cause loss of human lives. According to an exclusive report by Reuters, The US was attempting without success to interfere with the nuclear programme of Pyongyang, in the same way it has done with Iran … SCADA systems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 12, 2015
The United States Secretary of Homeland Security explained that the terrorism has entered a “new phase” and fears an escalation. The terrorism is probably the first concern for the US Government, the Americans fears a possible and imminent attack on the US soil. In an interview with ABC News, Jeh Johnson, the current United States Secretary of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 27, 2015
The NSA veteran Chief General Keith Alexander fears crippling cyber-attack on Western energy infrastructure and warned that we are not prepared for that. Security experts are warning companies in the energy industry of possible cyber attacks and Western plants are more exposed to the cyber threats. Electric grids, oil refineries and power plants are the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 25, 2015
According new revelations published by the Der Spiegel the German intelligence agency BND helped NSA in monitoring European politicians. We discussed several times of the aggressive cyber espionage campaigns run by the US intelligence and its allies of Five Eyes (Canada, UK, New Zeland, Australia and, of course, the US). The Intelligence targeted private companies and entities worldwide in order to establish a dominance in the cyberspace. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 13, 2015
Encryption has been used by more people over time and this has led to the NSA and the US Government to suggest new ways of accessing encrypted content. The uprising course of encryption and the fact that its use has become a lot more frequent and continues on increasing in popularity has made the United States wonder how they […]
