Pierluigi Paganini
October 15, 2012
Article published on The Malta Indipendent on October 14th 2012 Ron Kelson, Pierluigi Paganini, Fabian Martin, David Pace, Benjamin Gittins According to Cisco, by the end of this year, there will be more Internet-connected mobile devices than people on Earth! Not surprisingly there is a lot of interesting content being generated… According to Netcraft, there […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 14, 2012
Without doubts the man that has attracted the media attention in the cyber warfare scenario is Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, in my opinion one of the officers most farsighted and prepared on the politicians. Panetta has alerted US government on the high risks of cyber attacks against U.S. critical infrastructures and network, the opponents are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 12, 2012
Article published on The Malta Indipendent on October 7th 2012 Ron Kelson, Pierluigi Paganini, Fabian Martin, David Pace, Benjamin Gittins Bank (in)Security: Between the 1880s and the 1930s, physical bank burglaries were a substantial problem. To counter these threats bank’s employed vaults to protect their contents from theft, unauthorised use, fire, natural disasters, and other […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2012
What could happen if a malware compromises a communication system adopted daily by 663 million users (info dated September 2011)? Security experts have spread an alert to Skype users about an ongoing attack that try to induce them to load a link that spreads malware. The famous voice-over-Internet application is totally changed from its original […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2012
At the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) event “Cybersecurity and American power,” Gen. K.B. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and chief at the Central Security Service (CSS), defined cybercrime “the greatest transfer of wealth in history.” alerting Government on the emergency related to intellectual property theft due cyber espionage. “Symantec placed the cost of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 09, 2012
In the last weeks we have assisted to a massive DDoS attacks against U.S. financial institutions that demonstrated how much invasive is this type of offensive. The dimension of the attacks was very impressive considering that it has beaten the defense systems of so large organizations, experts believe it is negligible if compared to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 08, 2012
In the last decade the role of hacker is deeply changed, these strange characters were once kept away from government affairs, but the scenario is reversed, there has been an unprecedented technological evolution and principal countries have discovered a new way of making war, a new way of spying. Today the hacker is the most […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 07, 2012
In this days the hacking group Team GhostShell claimed credit for the hack of servers of the 100 principal universities from around the world, including Stanford, Princeton Harvard, the University of Michigan and also the Italian University of Rome. The hackers named the campaign #ProjectWestWind. The group accessed to the databases of universities stealing hundred of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 05, 2012
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 04, 2012
High tension in the cyberspace, recently a series of attacks have hit oil companies and also banking and Iran was blamed for most of them. This time the scenario appears overturned, according a news published few hours ago a huge cyber attack have targeted Iranian infrastructure and communications companies, causing serious damages to Internet connection. […]
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