• State-Sponsored Attacks, Who is Afraid?

    Posted October 15, 2012 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...

  • Social Media as a Cyber Warfare Gamechanger

    Posted October 14, 2012 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...

  • Feedback on The Cyber Threat Summit 2012

    Posted October 12, 2012 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...

  • Who is attacking the financial world, and why?

    Posted October 12, 2012 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...

  • Ponemon statistics 2012 on cost of cybercrime

    Posted October 10, 2012 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...

  • Correlating and Escalating Cyber

    Posted October 2, 2012 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...

  • Live From DerbyCON 2012

    Posted October 1, 2012 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...

  • Adobe Code Signing Certificate used to sign malware, who to bla

    Posted September 30, 2012 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...

  • Presentations from Cyber Threat Summit 2012

    Posted September 28, 2012 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  

  • CleanIT project, concerns for a global surveillance project

    Posted September 21, 2012 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...