data breach

Pierluigi Paganini August 04, 2012
Reuters blogging platform hacked, the critical role of information

In this day my blog has dedicated a great attention to the security of social media, explaining the importance of new communication networks. Today the information is synonymous with power, due this consideration is critical develop the proper processes for its management. To acquire information today we infiltrate social networks, we attack forums and social […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2012
Anonymous AAPT data breach, 180k records published, 263k incoming

Anonymous maintained its promises, the hacktivists announced that would have gone forward to prove the inefficiency of the companies complicit of Australian Government. They have leaked data from the AAPT , Australia’s third largest land line telecommunications company, victim of a data breach occurred during the last week. Anonymous has published data tonight, it seems […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 13, 2012
All the truth about Yahoo Contributor Network data breach

It’s hacking time! Within a few days we saw two attacks that had disastrous consequences, the victims are prominent Formspring portal and the Yahoo Voices service. The Yahoo branch hacked is Yahoo Contributor Network a sort  of content farm that paid users to publish their submissions. The Yahoo service allow users to post articles and media such […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 05, 2012
Who really takes advantage of the operations of Anonymous?

I desire to tribute another article to the group that catch the  worldwide attention of security community, Anonymous. Few years to consolidate its image become one of the most debated phenomenon on internet, many consider the collective a threat, many other the expression of a dissent to listen. Both interpretations are correct, but let’s think […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2012
Hacktivism and Deep Web

  In today’s society technology plays a crucial role and is used as a new cultural vehicle, and even aggregation element or carrier to express dissent against the policies of governments and private companies. Groups such as Anonymous are maximum expression of a phenomenon defined “Hacktivism” that refers the usage of computers and computer networks […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 07, 2012
LinkedIn passwords compromised.Social network poisoning & other risks

It’s happened, today has been diffused the news that users’ passwords of the most famous business social network LinkedIn have been stolen and leaked on Internet. The company, through it blog, has confirmed the event declaring that more than six million passwords were compromised. Following the message published We want to provide you with an […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 06, 2012
Israel between cyber war and cyber warfare business

It’s not a secret, Israel military is one of the most advanced and active cyber army that is using cyber-warfare to attack its enemy in the cyber space. For years Israel conducts cyber espionage and cyber offensive operations that allow the state to operate undisturbed, away from media pressure always attentive to the controversial international policy […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 04, 2012
In the shadow of the Flame, Warner Bros, China Telecom & US Navy hacks

What’s happening while the world’s attention is on Flame malware? The cyberspace is a very turbulent place where groups of hackers daily attack governments and private industries. Governments, hacktivist, cybercrime opposing forces facing each other on the same board, a game of chess where the outcome is unpredictable and no shortage of twists. Stuxnet, Flame […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 07, 2012
US Cybersecurity capability. National Preparedness Report

The “National Preparedness Report” is the first assessment, directly commissioned by President Obama, on the US capabilities of response to a terrorist attacks and man-made and natural disasters. Really interesting is the component related to cyber security, U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has reported an impressive growth of the number of cyber attacks and […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 11, 2012
Medicaid incident. How much cost a data breach?

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 […]