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Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2012

GAO invites FDA to improve Information Security for medical devices

In the last decade the number of cyber incidents related to technologies that surround us is growth exponentially, the principal concerns are related to all those objects with an “intelligent component” that we daily use and that we expose on internet for different purposes. This category includes also the Medical devices, elements with increasing complexity […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 02, 2012

Chinese cyber attack against White House Office

The news is circulating on internet creating great concern, once again Chinese hackers have hit an infrastructure of a foreign state, once again we are speaking of cyber espionage but this time the victim is excellent because they were able to access the White House Military Office. The Washington Free Beacon announced the cyber attack […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 17, 2012

The good and the bad of the Deep Web

Article Published on The Hacker New Magazine – September Edition “Security in a serious way” Introduction The Deep Web (or Invisible web) is the set of information resources on the World Wide Web not reported by normal search engines, according a raw estimation of some security experts clear web represents only a small portion of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2012

Botnet, pro & cons of using Tor Networks

As declared several time Deep Web, thanks to the anonymity of its connection, provides to cyber criminals an ideal environment to grow up profitable business. We have mainly discussed of deep web such as a portion of cyber space mainly used to sell any kind of good, from malware agent to drugs and other criminal […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2012

All you have to know on DDoS attack against GoDaddy

Yesterday was a terrible day, late afternoon in Europe Time, I noted that my blog Security Affairs, was down. I received several messages from my readers but when I tried to investigate on the reasons I discovered, with a great surprise, that the entire GoDaddy Platform was down. The popular web host supports more than […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2012

Elderwood project, who is behind Op. Aurora and ongoing attacks?

Today I desire to discuss on the real effect of a cyber attack, we have recently introduced the direct and indirect effects of the several cyber espionage campaigns discovered such as Flame and Gauss, but we never approached the problem in future projection examining the possible impacts of an incident many years after it. Symantec […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 04, 2012

AntiSec steals 1M Apple UDID from FBI notebook with an exploit

Another blow was dealt to the authorities by a group of hackers linked to Anonymous that claims to have breached FBI security posting 1 million Apple Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs). The UDIDs are the string of numbers that uniquely identifies each Apple device, and AntiSec hacker group has announced to have leaked more than 12 […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2012

Social Networks Part 3 – Are you exposing yourself unnecessarily to physical threats?

Article published on The Malta Indipendent Ron Kelson, Pierluigi Paganini, Fabian Martin, David Pace, Benjamin Gittins In our first article we talked about the intentional or unintentional disclosure of personal information in social networks that can expose you to logical (computer-based) threats and we gave you some recommendations about how to properly manage this risk of […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 02, 2012

Anonymous, from Philips to UK Government…a hot autumn is coming

The summer is ending and we must be prepared to a new season of attacks of Anonymous collective, last weeks we have registered several attacks of the group of hackers that suggest a warm autumn. Last week with a series of attacks Anonymous targets Electronics Manufacturer AVX, the hackers have hit the website for electronics […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 21, 2012

Saudi Aramco, are we ready for an escalation of cyber attacks?

Last week it has been registered a serious cyber attack against one of the world’s largest energy companies, the Saudi Aramco, and a group named the Arab Youth Group has claimed responsibility for the event. The group posted a message on Pastebin, declaring that the attack has been carried out to protest against the Saudi […]

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GAO invites FDA to improve Information Security for medical devices

Chinese cyber attack against White House Office

The good and the bad of the Deep Web

Botnet, pro & cons of using Tor Networks

All you have to know on DDoS attack against GoDaddy

Elderwood project, who is behind Op. Aurora and ongoing attacks?

AntiSec steals 1M Apple UDID from FBI notebook with an exploit

Social Networks Part 3 – Are you exposing yourself unnecessarily to physical threats?

Anonymous, from Philips to UK Government…a hot autumn is coming

Saudi Aramco, are we ready for an escalation of cyber attacks?

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