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Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2012

Zeus P2P variant against Facebook,Hotmail,Yahoo & Google Mail

The experts of Trusteer firm have discovered a new variant Zeus malware responsible of a series of attacks against principal internet service providers. The variant carried out attacks using the P2P network architecture targeting users of Facebook, Hotmail and Yahoo and Google Mail. What is Zeus? The Zeus Trojan is one of most notourios malware […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2012

Has Anonymous infiltrated US Government? The insider issue

In last months we have a long discussed about the security status of US networks and infrastructures, we have described the American cyber strategies and the main action proposed to protect the principal assets of the nations. One story in particular struck us deeply, that relating to the vulnerability of U.S. Government networks for admission […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2012

2011 IC3 – Internet Crime Report

In this article I desire to discuss about the data provided in the 2011 IC3 Internet Crime Report that provide evidence of the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) against cybercrime in US and of the obtained results. On May 8, 2000 from a partnership between NW3C, BJA and the FBI was born The Internet Fraud Complaint […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 07, 2012

US Cybersecurity capability. National Preparedness Report

The “National Preparedness Report” is the first assessment, directly commissioned by President Obama, on the US capabilities of response to a terrorist attacks and man-made and natural disasters. Really interesting is the component related to cyber security, U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has reported an impressive growth of the number of cyber attacks and […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 06, 2012

They are Not What You Think They are … They are Hacktivists

Article Published on The Hacker New Magazine – May Edition “They are Not What You Think they Are … they are hacktivists” During the last couple of years, we have witnessed the escalation of operations conducted by the Anonymous group, the collective of hackers that is expressing a social dissent through cyber attacks. In modern society, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 04, 2012

Anonymous Reloaded. Yesterday, today, tomorrow

The word “Anonymous ” evokes the myth of the hacker in today’s society that defends freedom of expression and agrees with sensational cyber operations in the fight against censorship and government and industrial questionable policies. If Anonymous is perceived by future generations as an attractive ideology to follow, industry and government view with concern the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 03, 2012

7 Most Common Facebook Crimes

It’s a pleasure for me to propose to my readers an article of my colleagues of TheBestDegrees Group on social networking and related crimes. Several times I highlighted the importance of social networking and of all related form of communication. Of course with the rapid diffusion of technology the number of crimes is increased dramatically. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 02, 2012

Flashback Trojan, a business opportunity for all

Many people who do not work in our sector are asking me two questions with increasing frequency: Can a virus infect a MAC pc? Is it possible to monetize a malware development? How is it possible? Obvious my answers, we cannot think of a software system free of bugs and vulnerabilities. To those who I have […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 01, 2012

Identity Theft, the growing crime

Every day we exchange personal information with colleagues, friends and unknown people with no idea how they are treated and for what use they will be managed. Telephone number, email address or driver’s license number are example of the data we provide ordinary using new media channels like internet and the social networks. The use […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 26, 2012

DNSChanger , much ado about nothing and the wrong choice

Summary of previous episodes In beginning of the year a news circulated on internet regarding the planned blackout of Internet for millions of users on March 8th decided by FBI to deal with DNSChanger Trojan. The action must be done to stop the diffusion of the malware that has infected millions of computers all over […]

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Zeus P2P variant against Facebook,Hotmail,Yahoo & Google Mail

Has Anonymous infiltrated US Government? The insider issue

2011 IC3 – Internet Crime Report

US Cybersecurity capability. National Preparedness Report

They are Not What You Think They are … They are Hacktivists

Anonymous Reloaded. Yesterday, today, tomorrow

7 Most Common Facebook Crimes

Flashback Trojan, a business opportunity for all

Identity Theft, the growing crime

DNSChanger , much ado about nothing and the wrong choice

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