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Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2012

Malware and new sophisticated cyber techniques against banking

Money motivates the cyber assault to banking by cybercrime, but the finance world is also considered a privileged target for sponsored-state attacks as part of cyber offense strategies. Let’s consider that the banking world is profoundly changing, the introduction of mobile devices, social networks, the openess to web services, the coming of new technologies such […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 19, 2012

Deep Web and censorship

We clarified the use of anonymizing networks is not only related to criminal intents, they represent in fact a powerful instrument to elude censorship introduced by governments in critical areas of the planet. We have provided the examples of Syria and Iran, but the world is full of similar operations that introduce a detailed […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 18, 2012

On new generation of P2P botnets

Zeus is one of the longest-running malware that raged for months, appearing in various forms on the web thanks to the continuous changes made by the cybercrime industry. This time the news is really interesting, Symantec security researchers have detected a new variant of Zeus that not relies on command and control (C&C) servers for […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 18, 2012

Part 2 of 2 – Serious safety and security problems in automotive, aviation, aerospace and other cyber-physical systems

Article published on The Malta Indipendent by Ron Kelson, Pierluigi Paganini, David Pace In last week’s article, we explored the issue of today’s high-speed computers and why their inability to consistently meet software deadlines causes serious problems to automotive applications, industrial control systems, (nuclear) power generators and other computer systems that interact with the real world. […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 17, 2012

Serious safety and security problems in automotive, aviation, aerospace and other cyber-physical systems

Article published on The Malta Indipendent Convergence in world leading research in Europe to tackle these problems This the first part of a two-part mini-series in which we look at the safety (and security) problems in real-time cyber-physical systems used around the world Ron Kelson, Pierluigi Paganini, David Pace, Benjamin Gittins Modern computer chips… a marvel of […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 16, 2012

The malware factory

Article Published on The Hacker New Magazine – June Edition “Malware” With the term malware we refer a heterogeneous family of malicious software designed with the purpose to disrupt computer operation, gather sensitive information, or gain unauthorized access to victims systems. With the term we indicate in fact several types of malicious code such as computer […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 15, 2012

US cyber warfare, budget cuts and shortage of cyber experts

The Flame case has raised the question on the real cyber warfare capabilities of every country, we have spoken of the strong commitment of Indian and German government, praising the US capabilities for the involvement in operations such as the “Olympic Games” project. But what are the real cyber capabilities of the United States? No […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 14, 2012

The right to anonymity on Internet and legal implications

The demand of anonymity services is increased in response to the increase network monitoring and censorship,but the anonymity is a concept that induces fear. Everyday, all our web actions leave traces of ourselves and of our way of life through the storing of massive amounts of personal data in databases in the internet, all these information […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 13, 2012

Cyber security during sporting events

Excerpt from the article published on the last edition of PenTest AUDITING & STANDARDS 05 2012. The article offers an overview on cyber security issues relating to sports events, competitions that are a priority target for terrorists and cyber criminals. What weight has the information security component on the overall organization? An analysis of the main types of computer attacks and possible consequences in a highly critical contest such as a sporting event. Introduction Whenever we see a major sporting event we […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 13, 2012

Hacktivist vs Twitter, security of OAuth authorization

There isn’t peace for social network platforms, priority target for cybercrime and governments, they represent a mine of data useful for business and espionage. After the news of the LinkedIN hack, also Twitter have been successfully attacked by a group of hacktivist named LulzSec Reborn that has leaked user credentials of more of 10,000 accounts. […]

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Malware and new sophisticated cyber techniques against banking

Deep Web and censorship

On new generation of P2P botnets

Part 2 of 2 – Serious safety and security problems in automotive, aviation, aerospace and other cyber-physical systems

Serious safety and security problems in automotive, aviation, aerospace and other cyber-physical systems

The malware factory

US cyber warfare, budget cuts and shortage of cyber experts

The right to anonymity on Internet and legal implications

Cyber security during sporting events

Hacktivist vs Twitter, security of OAuth authorization

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