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Pierluigi Paganini October 30, 2012

Israel vs Iran.The strategic importance of 5° domain,the cyberspace

Time passes and the dispute between Iran and Israel is becoming increasingly more complex to manage. Apparently everything seems crystallized waiting for one of the contenders make the first move, in fact, both states are boosting investment in the development of their cyber capabilities. The cyberspace is the domain in which both countries are trying to offend […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2012

Cyber security landscape in Africa

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 17, 2012

Tens of zero day vulnerabilities, millions of users exposed

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 16, 2012

Flame, miniFlame, the mystery of an on going cyber espionage campaign

Last May The Iranian Computer Emergency Response Team (MAHER) detected a new targeted malware which hit the country, that has been named Flame, also known as Flamer or Skywiper, due the name of its main attack module. MAHER wasn’t the only one to detect the agent, also Kaspersky Lab and CrySyS Lab identified the new dangerous malware, recognized […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2012

Iran,increasing tension with Western countries under cyber perspective

The tensions between Iran and Western countries are always in the principal news, the fear for an imminent Israel attack raises many questions regarding the real level of military preparedness of the regime. Many experts have tried to analyzed a possible scenario of the attack, in which the cyber component could assume a strategic importance. […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2012

Analisys on Flame C&C, the cyber war began long ago

In May Iranian Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination CenterLab, CrySyS Lab and Kaspersky Lab have published a news regarding a new malware that has been detected and that have hit mainly Windows systems of Middle East area, specifically the Iran. The malware was evidence of a huge ongoing cyber espionage campaign, the level of complexity […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2012

State-sponsored attack or not, that’s the question

The defense of cyberspace is becoming one the most concerning question to approach, governments all around the world are massively investing in cyber technology with the resultants that the number of cyber operations is increasing exponentially. William J. Lynn, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, states that: “as a doctrinal matter, the Pentagon has formally recognized cyberspace as a […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2012

Elderwood project, who is behind Op. Aurora and ongoing attacks?

Today I desire to discuss on the real effect of a cyber attack, we have recently introduced the direct and indirect effects of the several cyber espionage campaigns discovered such as Flame and Gauss, but we never approached the problem in future projection examining the possible impacts of an incident many years after it. Symantec […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 07, 2012

Dangerous waves of malware are transforming cyberspace in a jungle

The cyberspace is becoming a jungle of malware, a place where the danger is just around the corner. Governments, cyber criminals, hacktivist and terrorist are focusing their activities in the new domain due this reason we are assisting to the born of new agents and very sophisticated attack tools. In a parallel manner is lowering […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 31, 2012

Wiper, assumptions and difficulties analyzing a malware

During last April many press agencies and security firms published a story related to the detection of a new malware, named Wiper that attacked computers at businesses throughout Iran. Kaspersky Lab and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) investigated on the event trying to isolate the malware and analyze it. During the investigation the team of […]

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Israel vs Iran.The strategic importance of 5° domain,the cyberspace

Cyber security landscape in Africa

Tens of zero day vulnerabilities, millions of users exposed

Flame, miniFlame, the mystery of an on going cyber espionage campaign

Iran,increasing tension with Western countries under cyber perspective

Analisys on Flame C&C, the cyber war began long ago

State-sponsored attack or not, that’s the question

Elderwood project, who is behind Op. Aurora and ongoing attacks?

Dangerous waves of malware are transforming cyberspace in a jungle

Wiper, assumptions and difficulties analyzing a malware

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