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Pierluigi Paganini March 27, 2012

Huawei – Symantec, broken join venture and the fear on chinese firms

Huawei – Symantec joint venture is ended because the US firm feared business repercussion for the collaboration with the Chinese giant It’s official, the joint venture between Symantec and Huawei Technologies is ended because the American IT security firms feared that the collaboration with the Chinese telecommunications producer could have a sensible impact on its business. […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 26, 2012

Reflections on the Zero-Days Exploits market starting from Forbes’s article

The news that I wish discuss was published on the website of Forbes magazine, titled “Shopping For Zero-Days: A Price List For Hackers’ Secret Software Exploits“, that focuses on the commercial value of the vulnerability of popular applications. Time ago the figure of the hacker was recognized mainly as a researcher interested to measures its skills […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 25, 2012

US Experts say: Government Networks constantly hacked

For years, we have discussed the importance of appropriate cyber strategy and the necessity to preside over the main critical infrastructures to defend them from cyber threats of any kind and in our imagination we have always considered the US as a country at the forefront. While the cyber security experts analyze the progress made […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 22, 2012

Face to Face with Duqu malware

Once again we discuss about Stuxnet, cyber weapons and of the malware that appears derivate from the dangerous virus. The international scientific community has defined a Stuxnet deadly weapon because been designed with a detailed analysis of final target environment supported by a meticulous intelligence work that for the first time in history has embraced the world of […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 21, 2012

China again victim of cyber attacks

We have always been accustomed to reading incursions of Chinese cyber army into networks belonging to foreign private companies and government institutions. The Beijing government has been accused of pursuing a very aggressive cyber strategy responsible for serious damage to foreign companies. An emblematic case of Nortel, the company spied on for a decade by Chinese hackers ended […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 19, 2012

Millions US government email addresses in the hands of the cybercrime

It has repeatedly reiterated the need for a cyber strategy to reduce risks related to cyber threats from various sources, military, cyber crime or hacktivism. Cyber threats expose our intelligence agencies, our critical infrastructures and our companies to significant risks causing untold perfidious finance. In the area of cyber warfare governments have made considerable strides, gained awareness of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 18, 2012

Anonymous fake OS, who is behind it?

In recent days, by chance I discussed with colleagues the relationship between the Vatican and Anonymous groups because I consider the Holy See a very attractive target for several reason. A few hours later the site of Vatican went down, while I was writing of the possibility of OpBlackout and regarding the basting operations to discredit the group in terms of […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2012

CIA and the intelligence components of the things

Unfortunately, we rarely stop to reflect on the reality that surrounds us and the potential of the devices we use every day in the office, at home and when we’re out. The technology behind each of them has became the main architect of their operation and no matter whether we are talking about our phone or […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2012

Anonymous vs Vatican, thirst for justice or criminal act?

Everyone in Italy have read of the attacks made by Anonymous against the Vatican, but very few professionals have expressed a clear position on the incident. Everyone in Italy knows the risks and effects associated with exposure to radio waves emitted by the antennas of radio Vatican, but no one is really the opposite. Children and people […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 14, 2012

Surgical malware attack agains US via Iran

Sometimes warfare operation and cyber crime are really difficult to distinguish, especially when the cyber scenario is related to country that is facing with rising political tension such as Iran. I refuse to call cyber criminals, a group of expert hackers who made himself the protagonist of a complex story from different points of view. The […]

Cyber attacks

Huawei – Symantec, broken join venture and the fear on chinese firms

Reflections on the Zero-Days Exploits market starting from Forbes’s article

US Experts say: Government Networks constantly hacked

Face to Face with Duqu malware

China again victim of cyber attacks

Millions US government email addresses in the hands of the cybercrime

Anonymous fake OS, who is behind it?

CIA and the intelligence components of the things

Anonymous vs Vatican, thirst for justice or criminal act?

Surgical malware attack agains US via Iran

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