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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 05, 2012
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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2012
We all remember the Citadel trojan, based on the Zeus experience has evolved becoming one of the most interesting cyber criminal project. Few months ago I wrote on the excellent customer relationship management (CRM) model implemented by its creators. Thanks a malware evolution dictated by market needs, the trojan has evolved in time, many instances […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2012
In today’s society technology plays a crucial role and is used as a new cultural vehicle, and even aggregation element or carrier to express dissent against the policies of governments and private companies. Groups such as Anonymous are maximum expression of a phenomenon defined “Hacktivism” that refers the usage of computers and computer networks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2012
Last week a saw a satellite image taken by Google Earth related to a mysterious vehicle, apparently an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), parked at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. “Skunk Works” LM’s Advanced Development Program Facility is where some of the most futuristic and secret projects are developed. The image was dated […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2012
Article published on The Malta Indipendent by Ron Kelson, Pierluigi Paganini, David Pace, Ben Gittins Today, the chief executive officers (CEOs) of many businesses are becoming aware of the need to ensure their IT systems are secured to protect their organisation, their customers, and their stakeholders. According to Brian Snow, former technical director of the US NSA’s […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 30, 2012
Another excellent discovery of the active experts of Kaspersky Labs that have identified a new variant of the malware used in Tibet against Uyghur hacktivists, a Turkic ethnic group living in Eastern and Central Asia. The instance of Tibet malware detected infects OS X machines and is spread following a consolidated schema for politically motivated […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2012
Last Christmas the Stratfor Global Intelligence was hacked by Anonymous who disclosed company website and also the full client list of over 4000 individuals and corporations. The hacker gained access to a subscriber list stored on stratfor.com, and that list contained unencrypted credit card data. Stratfor is an organization that gathers open source intelligence which […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 28, 2012
The news has creating great surprise in the security community, a group of computer scientist has declared that has cracked the RSA SecurID encryption model. The news is sensational due the large diffusion of the tokens for the implementation of PKI infrastructures in both private and government sectors. RSA SecurID, is a mechanism developed by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 27, 2012
A couple of days ago a read about a new amendment to copyright laws passed in Japan last week. The amendment recognizes as illegal downloads of pirated material establishing extremely severe penalties for the violators. The law comes into effect in October and it establishes that those people that download pirated material such as DVDs […]
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