Security Affairs

Banking – new threats grow

Have you ever wondered what are the main threats have concerns the banks and financial institutions? Several survey have been conducted and apart small differenced of on numbers they all have evidenced that Top fraud threats are payment card fraud check...

The utopian privacy

Are you able to imagine a world in which everybody is free to communicate without being intercepted, spied on, tracked? Have you ever dreamt, reading sad and bad news pages on the censure of many governments, a world where the concept of freedom of thought...

December 7, 2011 By Pierluigi Paganini Posted In Digital ID Hacking Intelligence Laws and regulations Security Social Networks

How much cost malware production? Which are the processes for the production of virus? (Part.2)

Here I am, as promised, to continue the research started together regarding the cost of malware. Reading news of more or less aggressive viruses that cause many damages to public infrastructure to private citizens and sometimes endangering human life...

December 6, 2011 By Pierluigi Paganini Posted In Cyber Crime Hacking Malware Security

“Cyber India” lights and shadows of the country full of contradictions

The Economy of India is the ninth largest in the world by nominal GDP and the fourth largest by purchasing power parity (PPP). The country is a part of the G-20 major economies, Goldman Sachs predicts that "from 2007 to 2020, India’s GDP per capita...

December 5, 2011 By Pierluigi Paganini Posted In Cyber Crime Hacking Intelligence Laws and regulations Malware Security

Stuxnet, Duqu & Conficker, a new generation of cyber weapons … even “without a father”

Cyber warfare expert John Bumgarner claims that the Stuxnet and Duqu virus have been active for much longer than previously suspected, he says that they are active in different variant since 2006. Precisely he claims that the Stuxnet computer virus...

December 4, 2011 By Pierluigi Paganini Posted In Cyber Crime Hacking Intelligence Malware Security

Cybercrime, an industry that knows no crisis

During this days I had the opportunity to read the results of a couple of surveys: The PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Its Global Economic Crime Survey has demonstrated that Cybercrime has double digit growth being today third biggest crime...

December 3, 2011 By Pierluigi Paganini Posted In Cyber Crime Digital ID Hacking Intelligence Malware Security

Social Network Poisoning … they want to spy on us, we evade

Social Network Poisoning term refers the effect produced by the application of methods designed to make unreliable the knowledge related to a profile and its relationships. "Be Social" is the imperative of the last years. We live alternative lives, we...

December 2, 2011 By Pierluigi Paganini Posted In Digital ID Hacking Intelligence Security Social Networks

Assange, Spy Files and uncomfortable truths

If we talk about security which could be our worst nightmare? My answer is "to be vulnerable in every moment of our day, whatever we are doing and wherever we are" How could this happen? Imagine that someone has installed an app on our phones, and he is able...

December 2, 2011 By Pierluigi Paganini Posted In Digital ID Hacking Intelligence Laws and regulations Security Social Networks

“Mobile” intrigue … A prying eyes to carry around …

Let we use these ingredients to start some serious reflection on safety issues related to mobile devices: Robust growth in the mobile market, accompanied by technological advances that have made these devices real PC. No awareness of those...

December 1, 2011 By Pierluigi Paganini Posted In Cyber Crime Digital ID Hacking Intelligence Laws and regulations Malware Security

From printers to ovens … next step hack our brains.

Are we able to ensure that every peripherals connected to our computers and present in our offices is proof of attack? The first answer will be ... “sure”. We observe same problem with our household appliance that are being more intelligent. The...

November 29, 2011 By Pierluigi Paganini Posted In Cyber Crime Hacking Malware Security