New U.S. drone hacked by IRAN ? Reality or propaganda?

It's known, drones are privileged vehicles for reconnaissance and attacks, technology has achieved level of excellence and their use is largely diffused, that's why defense companies are providing new solution to make them increasingly effective. But the incredible amount of technological...

MyAgent Trojan Targets Defense and Aerospace Industries

FireEye Security experts are analyzing a targeted trojan that leverages emailed PDF files to gain access to systems and deliver its payload to specified networks in the aerospace, chemical, defense and tech industries. "We have seen different versions of this malware arriving as an exe inside a...

Email Trojan Targeting Defense, Aerospace and Other Industries

What has the makings of a targeted attack campaign against several high-value industries is using a Trojan that employs rigged PDFs to deliver its payload. Targeting organizations in the defense, chemical, technology, and aerospace industries, the MyAgent trojan is primarily spreading through ema...

New Version of Sykipot Trojan Linked To Targeted Attacks On Aerospace Industry

A new version of the Sykipot Trojan is being pushed to unsuspecting users in a wave of online attacks, including targeted attacks on attendees of an international aerospace conference, according to researchers at the security firm AlienVault. The latest edition of the common Trojan Horse program...

Ongoing Targeted Attack Campaign Going After Defense, Aerospace Industries

Researchers have identified a strain of malware that’s being used in a string of targeted attacks against defense contractors, government agencies and other organizations by leveraging exploits against zero-day vulnerabilities. The attacks may have been going on since 2009 in some form and the...

Hackers Plan Satellite Network to Fight Internet Censorship

A group of hackers are reportedly declaring war on Internet censorship, and they plan to fight back with their own satellite communications network. Sound like science fiction? According to BBC News, the plan was recently outlined at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. Dubbed the...

Report: Application Security Still Mostly Sucks

The third State of Software Security SOSS report finds that software developers are still doing a poor job of making applications secure. Application testing firm Veracode, which compiled the report, found that 58% of almost 5,000 applications failing a security audit on the first pass – about th...