Pierluigi Paganini
September 11, 2012
Yesterday was a terrible day, late afternoon in Europe Time, I noted that my blog Security Affairs, was down. I received several messages from my readers but when I tried to investigate on the reasons ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 11, 2012
Security Firm Rapid 7 has published an interesting analysis on government data breach reported from January 1, 2009 to May 31, 2012. The document present a worrying scenario in which 268 incidents ex ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 10, 2012
Article published on The Malta Indipendent Ron Kelson, Pierluigi Paganini, Fabian Martin, David Pace, Benjamin Gittins In our previous articles we discussed malware, phishing, viruses ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 09, 2012
Today, I would like to discuss the real effects of a cyber attack. We have recently introduced the direct and indirect effects of several cyber espionage campaigns, such as Flame and Gauss, but we ...
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