Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini April 29, 2012
Google used as cyber weapon. New attack method found

True, sometimes the big discoveries are the daughters of the case. That’s what happened to Panos Ipeirotis, a researcher of the New York University, he has discovered a new technique of attack on his Amazon web service using Google Spreadsheets. The methods of attack is a DDoS type and the researcher has named it as Denial of […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 24, 2012
Iran,Oil Industry under cyber attack,are we close to a military strike?

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
Analysis of cybercrime and its impact on private and military sectors

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 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 18, 2012
Walk trough the penetration testing fundamentals

The article is published on the last edition of Pentest Magazine. Enjoy the reading, the magazine is free and to download it you just have to create a free account on www.pentestmag.com. Talking about penetration testing fundamentals and their introduction in private and military sectors. The growing request for experienced IT professionals is demonstration of the awareness […]

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 15, 2012
Anonymous,from OpTrialAtHome to the streets,is time for changing

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
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 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 […]