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 26, 2012
Let me present you a very interesting study on cyber security landscape in Africa, conducted by IDG Connect, division of International Data Group (IDG), to which I gave my humble contribution. According the Economist data related to the first decade of this millennium shows that six of the world’s fastest growing economies were in sub-Saharan Africa. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 24, 2012
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 21, 2012
After much work during the last months I’m proud and happpy to announce the publishing of The Deep Dark Web book. It is AVAILABLE @Amazon website http://www.amazon.com/The-Deep-Dark-Web-hidden/dp/1480177598 PAPER BOOK It is AVAILABLE @Amazon website http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009VN40DU KINDLE It is AVAILABLE @SmashWords website http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/247146 It is AVAILABLE @Barnes & Noble website http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-deep-dark-web-pierluigi-paganini/1113594408?ean=2940015852837 and we have uploaded it also to Amazon […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 19, 2012
The second half of 2012 is started with an sensible increase of Distributed denial-of-service attacks against financial institutions and banking that caused several problems to the victims. To face with a so dangerous menace it’s fundament to analyze the phenomena starting from the data provided by security firms that desing solutions to protect companies from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 17, 2012
Every day we read about cyber threats, zero day vulnerabilities and new patch to apply so I decided to speak about a couple of vulnerabilities I believe potential dangerous for internet users. There is no peace for browsers, this category of application is considered a privileged target for hackers due their large diffusion. Once again […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2012
What could happen if a malware compromises a communication system adopted daily by 663 million users (info dated September 2011)? Security experts have spread an alert to Skype users about an ongoing attack that try to induce them to load a link that spreads malware. The famous voice-over-Internet application is totally changed from its original […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2012
At the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) event “Cybersecurity and American power,” Gen. K.B. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and chief at the Central Security Service (CSS), defined cybercrime “the greatest transfer of wealth in history.” alerting Government on the emergency related to intellectual property theft due cyber espionage. “Symantec placed the cost of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 09, 2012
In the last weeks we have assisted to a massive DDoS attacks against U.S. financial institutions that demonstrated how much invasive is this type of offensive. The dimension of the attacks was very impressive considering that it has beaten the defense systems of so large organizations, experts believe it is negligible if compared to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 03, 2012
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 […]
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