Pierluigi Paganini
April 30, 2012
Last week I reported the virus attack to the Iranian oil industry, a cyber attack that seems has caused few damages but that raised again the theme of cyber warfare. Oil industry is the primary economic business of Iranian Government and an attack to the sector appears to the experts as a cyber war acts. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 24, 2012
A new cyber attack against Iran, in particular this time the Oil Industry was the target of a Malware Attack. The news was widespread by Officials in the Iranian oil ministry, they say that their network and the country’s main oil export terminal were infected with a malware; due this event the government has taken […]
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 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 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
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 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 12, 2012
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 05, 2012
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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 03, 2012
Article Published on The Hacker New Magazine – April Edition “Cyber_Warfare” First let’s try to provide a definition of cyber-weapon, to do this I get inspiration from an article written by experts Thomas Rid and Peter McBurney. Correctly define cyber weapon has significant legal and political consequences as well as the security itself. The line […]
