Posted by pierluigi paganini
I find really interesting the report released by security firms regarding the principal cyber threats and the related evolution. This time I desire to share the data proposed in the by McAfee Labs in its McAfee Threats Report - First Quarter 2012. Let's start observing that this firs...
Posted by pierluigi paganini
Exactly on week ago a group of Iranian hackers named Cyber Warriors Team claimed to have compromised an SSL certificate issued to the Research and Education Support Services of NASA. The press released by the Cyber Warriors Team said that hackers have written an HTTPS protocol scanner ...
Posted by pierluigi paganini
Who is attacking WikiLeaks and The Pirate Bay? WikiLeaks and BitTorrent file-sharing site Pirate Bay were hit by a series of DDoS attacks during last weeks. An alleged hacker with the Twitter account @AnonNyre has taken credit for the attacks claiming to be member of Anony...
Posted by Don Eijndhoven
The Dutch Military Intelligence agency (MIVD) recently released its 2011 yearly report (in Dutch). As is usual, they covered the events of 2011, but also did some forecasting for 2012. Its especially this last bit I was interested in, and im writing this in the hope that you feel the same way. &nbs...
Posted by pierluigi paganini
The public opinion is daily informed regarding the situation in Syria that is still critic, according UN representative in the country several clashes are undermining a virtual ceasefire. Deputy Rep to Syria, Nasser Al-Qudwa, declared : "There is, at least, a theoretical commitme...
Posted by Paul C Dwyer
Would you like to get involved in a business that will be worth over $240 billion by 2020? With minimal further investment would you like to capitalise on your current investment and see guaranteed returns for 15 years? So this blog may be opening like the...
Posted by pierluigi paganini
We often discuss about warfare and cyberespionage, focusing on the usage of technology to steal intellectual property of foreign states. Of course the countries that have valuable technology skills are most exposed to targeted attacks that daily try to steal information regarding hi tech proj...
Posted by pierluigi paganini
The situation in Iran is becoming really critic, time go by and every diplomatic solution is not realizable. We have western countries disturbed by an aggressive policy of the government in Tehran, defiant as ever, that risks trigger a dangerous situation in the Middle East undermining the unstable ...
Posted by pierluigi paganini
The experts of Trusteer firm have discovered a new variant Zeus malware responsible of a series of attacks against principal internet service providers. The variant carried out attacks using the P2P network architecture targeting users of Facebook, Hotmail and Yahoo and Google ...
Posted by Paul C Dwyer
Is the US is Trailing in Cyber Defence? What About Stuxnet v2.0? The US Pentagon is an undisputable fortress with 23,000+ workers and sitting on over 6,000,000 sq feet. It is home to the Department of Defence but in 2008 the integrity of this modern day iconic fortress was compromised ...