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Rainbow Crypt

La mia assenza della settimana scorsa era dovuta alla mia partecipazione ad un congresso internazionale , in cui ho presentato un lavoro basato su un'attività di tirocinio svolta qualche tempo fa nel mio laboratorio (Giacomo Petronio). Si tratta di un lavoro molto "pratico", non c'è nulla di particolarmente "sorprendente" dal punto di vista teorico. Il problema generale può essere interessante per gli studenti di Reti II. Non ai fini dell'esame, ma tratta varie problematiche di cui abbiamo parlato a lezione.

Quante vulnerabilità ha un PC "tipico" ?

Uno studio recentissimo sugli argomenti di cui abbiamo parlato nella ultima lezione: http://www.citeulike.org/user/bartolialberto/article/9906522 Si tratta di dati raccolti da uno strumento gratuito installato su alcuni milioni di PC in giro per il mondo e che serve a rilevare se il PC ha installati dei programmi vulnerabili / non aggiornati. Un dato molto interessante all'inizio della sezione IV.I: "...We find that 50% of the users are typically exposed to more than 297 security vulnerabilities over a year. ". Un dato che credo non richieda commenti...

Security Incidents of This Week (weekly)

CBCP website defaced again - Yahoo! News A website of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines was defaced anew Thursday, the third time since November 2010. tags: SecurityIncident defacement OVP website falls to multiple hacker attacks in 1 day One month after being defaced, the website of the Office of the Vice President fell victim to several attacks by hackers Friday morning and afternoon. While the site was restored before noon following a hacker attack, it was defaced again in the afternoon, apparently by the same group calling itself PrivateX. In one of the group's afternoon attacks, visitors to the site after 2 p.m. saw the home page replaced with an anime image, with music playing in the background. tags: SecurityIncident defa...

Security Incidents of This Week (weekly)

Reda, l'hacker 'buono' che ha violato Facebook - Repubblica.it Un giovane marocchino di 22 anni, esperto di sicurezza sul web, ha trovato una falla nel sistema di sicurezza del sito di Mark Zuckerberg e ha avuto accesso libero a note, foto e video pubblicate da 80 mila utenti. "Ma - assicura - l'ho fatto per educare la gente a quello che mette online" tags: SecurityIncident Hacking Hacker contro Lady Gaga rubati i dati di migliaia di fan - Repubblica.it tags: SecurityIncident Hacking Court Favors Small Business in eBanking Fraud Case — Krebs on Security tags: SecurityIncident banking ...

Security Incidents of This Week (weekly)

Portuguese hackers strike back at Moody's downgrade tags: SecurityIncident defacement Politics PayPal UK Twitter Account Hacked witter accounts seem to be the latest victim of hackers with the PayPal UK Twitter account being seized. A day after it was reported that the Twitter account of Fox News Politics was hacked, cyber criminals have now defaced the Twitter account of eBay’s PayPal UK account. According to a report, hackers had seized the account and began tweeting messages to its 17,000 followers. tags: SecurityIncident Hacking banking Anonymous Attacks Turkish Websites Again tags: SecurityIncident...

Security Incidents of This Week (weekly)

Hackers strike Arizona police sites again A group of hackers defaced several Fraternal Order of Police websites across Arizona on Thursday evening, posting the user names, passwords and other information of hundreds of officers. tags: SecurityIncident defacement WWF site attacked again; hacker leaves 'tips' Two days after a hacker defaced its site, the World Wildlife Fund Philippine chapter suffered another attack Friday, with the hacker leaving behind tips to improve its security. As of 4:21 a.m. Friday, the tips - in text format - were still posted on the homepage of the WWF Philippine chapter's homepage. tags: SecurityIncident defacement Amy Winehouse’s website hacked and ...