Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini July 30, 2012
South Korea, another data breach. How is changing the hacking world?

Browsing the internet is easy to find information regarding date breach by hackers against large companies that fail to protect their facilities exposing the information of their customers and employees. Yesterday Anonymous group has released more than 400K record of the Australian AAPT company stolen during a recent attack, meanwhile this morning I read about […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2012
Anonymous AAPT data breach, 180k records published, 263k incoming

Anonymous maintained its promises, the hacktivists announced that would have gone forward to prove the inefficiency of the companies complicit of Australian Government. They have leaked data from the AAPT , Australia’s third largest land line telecommunications company, victim of a data breach occurred during the last week. Anonymous has published data tonight, it seems […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 27, 2012
Anonymous #op_Australia, data breach and reflections on utopian privacy

This time target of attacks of the Anonymous group is the Australian government,  at least 10  websites were taken down to protest proposed changes to privacy laws. The government want to force national ISP to spy on users make available their information to law enforcement and security agencies. The Anonymous Australia collective in a mail […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 25, 2012
Japan institutions victim of cyber espionage, is it cyber warfare?

One of the biggest cyber threat is cyber espionage, it’s the sign of the technological era in which every devices surround has an intelligence component that could be exploited. Governments first, cyber criminal after, have discovered the great efficiency of malware used to steal sensible information to the victims, no matter if we are speaking […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 22, 2012
Power Pwn & Darpa projects for development of hacking tool

We have discussed several time of the interference of governments inside our ordinary life, they try to control our network, to spy on our social network profiles, to access silently to our gaming console and every thing surround us. The nightmare experienced by the protagonist of the movie “Enemy of the State” is now a […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 17, 2012
Anonymous, Wikileaks & Par:anoIA, evolution of hacktivism

In the last months we have assisted of an intensification of the operations that we common locate under the hacktivism umbrella. Millions of people claim freedom of internet access and the respect of human rights. The right to Internet access, also known as the right to broadband, states that all individuals must be able to […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 13, 2012
All the truth about Yahoo Contributor Network data breach

It’s hacking time! Within a few days we saw two attacks that had disastrous consequences, the victims are prominent Formspring portal and the Yahoo Voices service. The Yahoo branch hacked is Yahoo Contributor Network a sort  of content farm that paid users to publish their submissions. The Yahoo service allow users to post articles and media such […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 11, 2012
Anonymous #OpPedoChat pros and cons of a noble battle

The hacktivists of Anonymous are always on and always operating despite many experts continue to downplay the importance and effectiveness of its operations. In recent days the name of the collective was involved in a clamorous revelations for his contribution in the dissemination of precious “Syria Files” a collection of correspondences that detect uncomfortable murky […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 10, 2012
Syria Files, Wikileaks, Anonymous and dirty affairs

Big outcry on Wikileaks that last week has published more that 2.4 million emails allegedly obtained from continuous hack against Syrian government and organizations connected to the regime. The correspondence of “Syrian political figures, ministries and associated companies” between August 2006 and March 2012 has been defined embarrassing for the government of Damascus and its […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 05, 2012
Who really takes advantage of the operations of Anonymous?

I desire to tribute another article to the group that catch the  worldwide attention of security community, Anonymous. Few years to consolidate its image become one of the most debated phenomenon on internet, many consider the collective a threat, many other the expression of a dissent to listen. Both interpretations are correct, but let’s think […]