Seeds On Sale?
Image via Wikipedia With the alleged Northrop Grumman Cyber-attack, we have experienced three attempts, unleashed in few days, to leverage the compromised RSA seeds in order to steal data from U.S....
View ArticleSeeds For Free
Image via Wikipedia Another crucial episode in the affair of the RSA Breach. In a letter published yesterday by mean of the Executive Chairman Art Coviello, letter that will probably go into the...
View ArticleCitigroup Breach and RSA Breach: A Possible Connection?
Image via Wikipedia Today Citigroup revealed that the company has been victim of a breach of its online banking platform, which might have exposed sensitive data belonging to about hundreds of...
View ArticleApplication (In)Security in the Citi
Today some more details about the Citi breach were revealed and it looks like it is not connected with the RSA breach. The investigation is still in place, but data collected so far show the kind of...
View ArticleThe Two Faces of Hacking
My colleague Massimo Biagiotti suggested me this interesting matrix from IEEE which originally indicated some of the biggest and best stories assessed along two dimensions: innovation and impact....
View ArticleAnd The Winner Is…
The Pwnie Awards is an annual awards ceremony celebrating the achievements and failures of security researchers and the security community. The awards are given out once an year. The fifth annual...
View ArticleFinally I Saw One!
Update: F-Secure posted in their blog the complete description on how the patient 0 was found: And here it is the infamous “2011 recruitment plan message”. Have a look to the fake sender: a message...
View ArticleAn Industry Wide Attack
9/9/2011: Globalsign admitted evidence of a breach to the web server hosting the www website: Today we found evidence of a breach to the web server hosting the www website. The breached web server has...
View ArticleAn E-mail Attack to Ground Zero
Easily Predictable, the 10th 9/11 anniversary turned out to be a too tempting opportunity for unscrupulous hackers and cyber pranksters. Probably the NBC News Twitter account (and its 130,000...
View ArticleOne Year Of Lulz (Part I)
Update December 26: 2011 is nearly gone and hence, here it is One Year Of Lulz (Part II) This month I am a little late for the December Cyber Attacks Timeline. In the meantime, I decided to collect on...
View ArticleSome Random Thoughts On RSA Breach
Image via Wikipedia June 7 Update: RSA admits some stolen seeds were used to attack Lockeed Martin and will replace SecurID tokens for customers with concentrated user bases typically focused on...
View ArticleIt was only a matter of time…
05/27 Update: Several Sources report that the “large U. S. Defense contractor” hit by the alleged compromised seeds attack could be Lockheed Martin. It was only a matter of time… And not only of the...
View ArticleMore Random Thoughts on the RSA Breach
Image via Wikipedia Probably it was a quite easy prediction, however it looks like what I suggested on my random thoughts on the RSA Breach has definitively come true: RSA was not the target, probably...
View Article(IN)SecureID
I just finished reading this interesting article that seems to offer a different view for the attack at Lockheed Martin (actually, a lone voice which does not consider the attack related to compromised...
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