Pierluigi Paganini
July 15, 2012
Article published on The Malta Indipendent by Ron Kelson, Pierluigi Paganini, David Pace The London 2012 Olympics will bring together 10,500 athletes, diplomats, politicians, business leaders and millions of spectators from all over the world. Behind the scenes there is an immense effort being made to ensure the security and well-being of everyone participating, in any […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 14, 2012
Excerpt from the article published on the last edition of PenTest AUDITING & STANDARDS 06 2012 The article exposes the main issues related to the use of SCADA systems in critical infrastructures, providing a careful analysis of the relative level of security on a global scale. It discusses the main vulnerabilities of critical systems exploitable by cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 13, 2012
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 12, 2012
The malware factory still evolving, every day security firms detect new cyber threats that show new sophisticated techniques to avoid protection systems, this is a war that law enforcement fight against cyber criminals. Internet has a new web exploit produced by crime industry, its particularity is that in the deployment phase it is able to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 11, 2012
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
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 âSyrian political figures, ministries and associated companiesâ between August 2006 and March 2012 has been defined embarrassing for the government of Damascus and its […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 09, 2012
Last week, on blog.torproject.org was published the news relative to a security vulnerability found in Cyberoam DPI devices (CVE-2012-3372). All is started when a user in Jordan reported seeing a fake certificate to torproject.org. The certificate was issued by Cyberoam companies and the researchers of the Tor project believed that the CA has been tricked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 08, 2012
It’s been long debated the need to protect critical infrastructures from cyber attacks, cyber threats could hit foreign countries causing loss of human lives identically to a conventional attack. Donât forget that similar attacks con be organized by state-sponsored hackers or cyber criminals with the different purposes, target destroying or cyber espionage. Emergency Response Teams […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 07, 2012
The story begins in November 2011 when in Estonia was arrested a group of persons accused of having developed the dreaded trojan that seems to be able to spread with surprising ease building a scary botnet. The botnet operated by Rove Digital altered user DNS settings, pointing victims to malicious DNS in data centers in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 06, 2012
On June 28th, a FBI official declared before a House panel that the phenomenon of cyber espionage is increasing with an alarming trend. We are living a period of great crisis and the intellectual property is becoming a privileged target for cyber attacks. It has been estimated that the economic espionage in the current fiscal […]
