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Pierluigi Paganini April 17, 2013

Almost all game hacks are infected with malware

Security worldwide community is alarmed by the explosion of number of cyber threats that are becoming even more sophisticated and are exploring new channel to infect a larger number of machines for various purposes, from cyber espionage to the realization of complex fraud. Antivirus company AVG has published an interesting study on games hacks that […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 10, 2013

Stylometric analysis to track anonymous users in the underground

Law enforcement and intelligence agencies conscious of the high risks related to cyber threats have started massive monitoring campaign, everything must be controlled to avoid unpleasant surprises. The trend is shared by every governments of the planet, intelligence agencies are making great investments in term of money and resources to define new methods and to […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 24, 2012

Trend Micro Q3 security report

Trend Micro has released the report “3Q 2012 SECURITY ROUNDUP -Android Under Siege: Popularity Comes at a Price” that presents a worrying trend for malware growth increased of 483%. The increment include cyber espionage malware and also destructive malicious agents targeting mainly the mobile world and in particular Google Android platform. Malware targeting Android platform increased […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 18, 2012

Anonymous vs Wikileaks…you can condemn a man but not wipe out an ideology

Hacktivism is considered one of the most interesting phenomena of the last year, despite this form of dissent is dated in the last years it has catalyzed the media attention with its exploit. Hacktivism is considered one of the main cyber threats and its operations have created serious problems to private businesses and governments, for […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2012

Why do we need hackers today?

In the last decade the role of hacker is deeply changed, these strange characters were once kept away from government affairs, but the scenario is reversed, there has been an unprecedented technological evolution and principal countries have discovered a new way of making war, a new way of spying. Today the hacker is the most […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 07, 2012

Team GhostShell hacktivists against temples of knowledge

In this days the hacking 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. The hackers named the campaign #ProjectWestWind. The group accessed to the databases of universities stealing hundred of […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2012

GAO invites FDA to improve Information Security for medical devices

In the last decade the number of cyber incidents related to technologies that surround us is growth exponentially, the principal concerns are related to all those objects with an “intelligent component” that we daily use and that we expose on internet for different purposes. This category includes also the Medical devices, elements with increasing complexity […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 03, 2012

Why humans could be the weakest link in cyber security chain?

Last month I attended the Cyber Threat Summit in Dublin and I had the opportunity to assist to the interesting presentation “Humans The weakest link in cyber security” of Mark Johnson, Chairman, The Risk Management Group. The topic of presentation is one of the most interesting in cyber security, the massive introduction of technologies in […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 26, 2012

Malware,Botnet & cyber threats,what is happening to the cyberspace?

Article published on Hakin9 IT Security Magazine “Raspberry Pi Hacking – Exploiting Software” 08/12 The article proposes an analysis of the main cyber threats that worry security experts and that are profoundly changing the cyber space. The exponential growth of the number of cyber threats and attacks is rebutted by a wide range of statistical […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 21, 2012

CleanIT project, concerns for a global surveillance project

I’m just returned from the Cyber Threat Summit in Dublin, one of the most interesting European events in cyber security that gave me the opportunity to share opinion notes with expert professionals of international security context. The event revealed an alarming scenario on the main cyber threats, no matter if it is cybercrime, hacktivism, cyber […]

cyber threats

Almost all game hacks are infected with malware

Stylometric analysis to track anonymous users in the underground

Trend Micro Q3 security report

Anonymous vs Wikileaks…you can condemn a man but not wipe out an ideology

Why do we need hackers today?

Team GhostShell hacktivists against temples of knowledge

GAO invites FDA to improve Information Security for medical devices

Why humans could be the weakest link in cyber security chain?

Malware,Botnet & cyber threats,what is happening to the cyberspace?

CleanIT project, concerns for a global surveillance project

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