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China hit by DDoS attack. The Internet inaccessible for hours 27 Aug 2013 | 03:33 pm
China hit by DDoS attack. The CINIC confirmed that the country suffered a DDoS attack over the weekend causing the Internet inaccessibility for hours. During the weekend China’s Internet was taken do...
Information Warfare, Russia, New Zeland…it is arms race 27 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
Information warfare, under this term governments are working to improve their cyber capabilities, last in order of time are Russia and the New Zeland. Information warfare, cyber warfare, are all term...
The FBI claims to have neutralized Anonymous 26 Aug 2013 | 12:37 pm
The FBI claims to have neutralized Anonymous thanks the long series of arrests that hit principal cells of the collective such as LulzSec, Antisec and SABU. FBI in the last months has intensified the...
Poison Ivy still alive, old malware new cyber threats – FireEye report 25 Aug 2013 | 01:12 pm
Security vendor FireEye has published a detailed analysis on the popular Poison Ivy RAT, releasing also a set of tools to analyze infections. Security firm FireEye published an interesting analysis o...
Critical Pinterest Exploit threatens the privacy of millions of users 24 Aug 2013 | 02:36 pm
Security researcher Dan Melamed has found a serious Pinterest Exploit that exposed user’s information of over 70 Million accounts. The security researcher Dan Melamed has found a Critical Pinterest E...
Kaspersky – Unvalidated redirection flaw exploitable to serve malware 23 Aug 2013 | 10:54 am
The cyber Security Analyst Consultant at Q-CERT Ebrahim Hegazy has found an “Unvalidated Redirection Vulnerability” in the website of the giant security solutions vendor “Kaspersky”. Ebrahim Hegazy (...
DDoS to hide attacks against wire payment switch systems 22 Aug 2013 | 11:58 am
Fraudsters target wire payment switch at US banks to steal millions using DDoS to divert the attention on fraudulent transactions. Cybercriminals are targeting the wire payment switch instead to hit ...
A reading of the ENISA Annual Incident Reports 2012 21 Aug 2013 | 01:16 pm
ENISA issued the ENISA Annual Incident Reports 2012 on significant incidents in the electronic communications sector, which were reported to national regulators in 2012. ENISA published the ENISA Ann...
Brain hacking, it’s time to protect our mind from hackers 20 Aug 2013 | 10:27 am
Brain hacking is the act to read the content of the human brain and modify it, is the technology mature to allow hackers to penetrate our mind? Brain hacking refers the possibility to attack the huma...
Short Password Reset code vulnerability allows hackers to brute-force many websites 19 Aug 2013 | 05:42 pm
Indian hacker reported a Short Password Reset code vulnerability that could allow attackers to brute-force many high profile websites not protected by CAPTCHA verification system. Yesterday we receiv...
