Posted by Mike Muscatell
Last week, for the second time since June, Google warned his Gmail users of possible state-sponsored attacks. According to Mike Wiacek, a manager on Google’s information security team, Google started to alert users to state-sponsored attacks three months ago. Meanwhile the security team has ga...
Posted by Don Eijndhoven
September of 2012 will live on in infamy for a large number of people. It was the month of the massive riots by Islamic extremists who, incited by the ever present radical imams, stormed several US embassies, allegedly over a months-old, poorly crafted Youtube video that ironically decried the viole...
Posted by Paul C Dwyer
Have Your Say! - Give Us Some Feedback "The Cyber Threat Summit provided us with the perfect opportunity to inform an educated audience about the problem of Toll Fraud and to provide them with an introduction to PBXwall. Paul C Dwyer not only promoted this event in a very professi...
Posted by pierluigi paganini
Bank (in)Security: Between the 1880s and the 1930s, physical bank burglaries were a substantial problem. To counter these threats bank's employed vaults to protect their contents from theft, unauthorised use, fire, natural disasters, and other threats. Vaults were an integral...
Posted by pierluigi paganini
At the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) event "Cybersecurity and American power," Gen. K.B. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and chief at the Central Security Service (CSS), defined cybercrime "the greatest transfer of wealth in history." alerting Government on the emerge...
Posted by Don Eijndhoven
On September 20th, CNet reported on a new wave of malware called ´Mirage´, embedded in PDF´s that were distributed through spear-phishing attacks against a multitude of targets, such as a Philippine oil company, a Taiwanese military organization and a Canadian energy firm. The...
Posted by Mike Muscatell
DerbyCon – Day One An Estimated 1,700 people arrived in Louisville, Kentucky on Friday for DerbyCon, a weekend filled with training, technical discussions, and fine Kentucky bourbon. This year will be the second time DerbyCon has taken place, hence the conference&rsquo...
Posted by pierluigi paganini
It's happened again, cyber criminals have stolen digital certificates related to companies recognized reliable to sign malicious code. This time the victim is Adobe and according its security chief, Brad Arkin, a group of hackers have signed malware using Adobe digital...
Posted by Paul C Dwyer
Many of you have requested to see the slides from the Cyber Threat Summit 2012. You can view them from here: http://www.slideshare.net/pcdwyer
Posted by pierluigi paganini
I'm just returned from the Cyber Threat Summit in Dublin, one of the most interesting European events in cyber security that gave me the opportunity to share opinion notes with expert professionals of international security context. The event revealed an alarming scenario...