Pierluigi Paganini
April 26, 2012
 Summary of previous episodes In beginning of the year a news circulated on internet regarding the planned blackout of Internet for millions of users on March 8th decided by FBI to deal with DNSChanger Trojan. The action must be done to stop the diffusion of the malware that has infected millions of computers all over […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 23, 2012
The article is published on the last edition of PenTest AUDITING & STANDARDS 03 2012. Several reports published in the last months demonstrate that Cybercrime has double digit growth, being today among the four biggest crime threat all over the world, within asset theft crimes, frauds and corruption. The trend is the same all over the word, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 22, 2012
Yesterday I discussed with a friend and colleague Francesco on the lack of awareness of Apple’s users on malware that plague products of the house in Cupertino. This consideration is one of the reasons of the success in malware development for Apple, the users totally ignore that Apple machines are equivalent to any other kind of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2012
Today I desire to share with you the results of a study of Trend Micro security firm focused on mobile threat incidents related to the first quarter of 2012. The large diffusion of mobile devices and the leak of awareness on the principal cyber threats have produced an increasing interest of the cybercrimein mobility sector, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2012
The story that I desire to report seems the plot of a movie, Khosrow Zarefarid an Iranian software manager after finding security vulnerability in Iranâs banking system tried to inform the management of the affected banks preparing a detailed report. As usually the bank’s manager ignored the alert so the Iranian expert decided to demonstrate the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 15, 2012
Another Saturday, another round, as announced today the group Anonymous has targeted government sites to protest against British government policy. Nothing new over last week, same goals, same mode of attack, the same result. On internet bounced messages of joy for having staged the second act of the operation called by the group #OpTrialAtHome. Let’s start making some reflections on the real utility of these […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 13, 2012
The US Government is very close to the theme of warfare being among the countries that invest more in the field. In a cyber security context we can enumerate a huge quantity of cyber threats that daily are designed and enhanced, a heterogeneous world and that includes many different options that could harm military and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 11, 2012
The Utah Department of Technology Services (DTS) has announced that the Utah Department of Health (UDOH) was victim of an hack. On Monday the server that hosts Medicaid was hacked, the news of the breach has been published on Wednesday. In a first time the entity of the data breach has been estimated in 181,604 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 09, 2012
When discuss on cyber warfare we cannot regardless of the role played by nations such as China, U.S. and Russia. In particular, the Beijing government has distinguished itself in recent years for two key aspects: the aggressive strategy cyber conduct towards foreign countries the country’s willingness to become independent from the technological The second aspect is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 06, 2012
The encounter with terrorism technology, widely defined cyber terrorism, is one of the main threats for each country. Wrongly, we tend to associate a terrorist act to a physical event as an explosion, a conflict, a tragedy, but the common people totally ignore the potential threat of a cyber offensive. We learned about the devastating […]
