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Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2012
Concerned over rising threats online, Cyber security agents in Africa are taking a proactive step by collaborating with global network-security experts, to curb cybercriminal activities in the continent where they will share information and technical know how. Cyber security agents in Africa will gain an even better view of emerging cyber threats by working with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 07, 2012
The world is holding its breath, the cyber threat is announced by the Anonymous group who has decided to celebrate November 5th in its own way, attacking a wide selection of targets. Anonymous celebrates Guy Fawkes Day, the British holiday commemorating a failed 17th-century plot to blow up British Parliament, with an incredible media operation, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 06, 2012
F-Secure security firm has recently published the “Mobile threat report Q3/2012” related the past quarter that presents the mobile threat landscape, a scenario that has been characterized by Android’s dominance. The rapid diffusion of Android devices has had the effect of increasing the number of malware developed for the famous OS, during the third quarter […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 05, 2012
Last month we have discussed on the attacks conducted by the group of hackers Team GhostShell against universities all over the world. The 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. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 04, 2012
Do you remember the case of the Anonymous OS proposed during last months? Who developed that OS and why? Difficult to say, maybe law enforcement to track members of the collective or someone else that desired to benefit of the popularity of the group to exploit a large number of users. A similar case has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2012
Last year I wrote about a new powerful surveillance system that Russian government committed to private business to implement a complex monitoring system, officially to prevent terrorist attacks against Russia. The day is come, today the system has been deployed officially to prevent on-line pedophilia but it obvious that a similar system is also able […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 01, 2012
Trend Micro published a very interesting report on the Russian underground market, the document written by Max Goncharov analyzed the services and the products marketed by cyber criminals. The study is based on data obtained from the analysis of online forums and services attended by Russian hackers such as antichat.ru, xeka.ru, and carding-cc.com. Trend Micro […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 31, 2012
The cybercrime represents today one of the primary concerns on global scale, it is a growing industry that is impacting every sector of the society in serious way causing relevant financial loss. The crime is exploring new channels and it is implementing new sophisticated fraud schemas to increase its earnings, daily IT security community registers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 30, 2012
Time passes and the dispute between Iran and Israel is becoming increasingly more complex to manage. Apparently everything seems crystallized waiting for one of the contenders make the first move, in fact, both states are boosting investment in the development of their cyber capabilities. The cyberspace is the domain in which both countries are trying to offend […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 29, 2012
After the publishing of the book “Deep Dark Web” many colleagues asked me to explain how does work the finance in hidden world and which is the currency used for the transactions? Of course I receive many question also on Bitcoin by common people so I decided to introduce the basic concepts behind the famous […]
