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Pierluigi Paganini April 22, 2012

Flashback? Are you joking? There aren’t malware for Mac

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

Cyber threats in mobile environment

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

Iran, 3M bank accounts hacked.Hypothesis on cyber warfare scenario

The story that I desire to report seems the plot of a movie, Khosrow Zarefarid an Iranian software manager after finding security vulnerability in Iran’s 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 16, 2012

DDoS, detailed analysis of the phenomenon

Last year we have observer an impressive grow of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks mainly related to operation arranged by group of hacktivists such as Anonymous. During a DDoS attacks multitude of compromised systems attack a single target causing denial of service for users of the targeted system. I desire to analyze with you the interesting results […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 13, 2012

Botnets and cyber warfare, a dangerous combination

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 12, 2012

OSINT research to discovery lucrative business of monitoring systems

The dramatic events of recent months have occurred in Syria should lead us all in deep thought. What value do we place on human life? Are we really willing to sacrifice the life of a child for money? International opinion has been found before the massacres of innocent civilians by the Assad regime, but little […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 09, 2012

China, cyber warfare and challenges for the future

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 08, 2012

Anonymous attacks the UK government.OpTrialAtHome, Tango Down

As announced during last days Anonymous has launched a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) against several UK government websites. A massive recruiting campaign is started on social media, a call to arm to protest the extradition of U.K. citizens to the United States. The Operation named “Operation Trial At Home,” fight the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) that could […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 06, 2012

Cyber terrorism, cyber attacks against al Qaeda 2.0

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 […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 05, 2012

Anonymous, its strategy against censorship and the diversionary theory

Groups of hacktivist like Anonymous are the actual news of the global technology landscape, a new force with which and against which confront. As repeatedly stressed I consider the moment of confrontation with the group a moment of growth for the IT professional in many ways, on all: having to deal with the cyber threat that […]

cyber threats

Flashback? Are you joking? There aren’t malware for Mac

Cyber threats in mobile environment

Iran, 3M bank accounts hacked.Hypothesis on cyber warfare scenario

DDoS, detailed analysis of the phenomenon

Botnets and cyber warfare, a dangerous combination

OSINT research to discovery lucrative business of monitoring systems

China, cyber warfare and challenges for the future

Anonymous attacks the UK government.OpTrialAtHome, Tango Down

Cyber terrorism, cyber attacks against al Qaeda 2.0

Anonymous, its strategy against censorship and the diversionary theory

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