Pierluigi Paganini
April 08, 2012
As announced during last days Anonymous has launched a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) against several UK government websites. A massive recruiting campaign is started on social media, a call to arm to protest the extradition of U.K. citizens to the United States. The Operation named “Operation Trial At Home,” fight the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) that could […]
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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2012
We all remember the decision of the western states to prohibit the sale of anti-virus systems to Tehran, penalties determined to thwart the development of Iran’s nuclear program. A predictable decision that haven’t created any problem the state that seems has developed a new antivirus program to immunize the systems from the notorious Stuxnet virus. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2012
The massive use of new technologies has often raised thorny questions about the privacy of network users. The most difficult issue to resolve in the necessary to reach a compromise to assure the users requirements of security and privacy. The debate generates heated arguments, confusion and sometimes decisions in apparent contrast. In Japan, to the multinational […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 25, 2012
For years, we have discussed the importance of appropriate cyber strategy and the necessity to preside over the main critical infrastructures to defend them from cyber threats of any kind and in our imagination we have always considered the US as a country at the forefront. While the cyber security experts analyze the progress made […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2012
Just yesterday I completed a lengthy article regarding several aspects of cybercrime and their impact on private and military sectors. In a section of the article describing among other factors the impact of the phenomenon hacktivism far from negligible. According the study “Data Breach Investigations Report” published by Verizon hacktivists stole almost twice as many records of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 20, 2012
The news seems to come from a science fiction film, drone aircrafts used to escape the oppressive censorship practiced by many states, the idea has been presented by exponents of the most famous file sharing web site, “The Pirate Bay”. The idea is simple as efficient, they have planned to host their servers on GPS-controlled aircraft drones […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2012
It has repeatedly reiterated the need for a cyber strategy to reduce risks related to cyber threats from various sources, military, cyber crime or hacktivism. Cyber threats expose our intelligence agencies, our critical infrastructures and our companies to significant risks causing untold perfidious finance. In the area of cyber warfare governments have made considerable strides, gained awareness of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2012
In recent days, by chance I discussed with colleagues the relationship between the Vatican and Anonymous groups because I consider the Holy See a very attractive target for several reason. A few hours later the site of Vatican went down, while I was writing of the possibility of OpBlackout and regarding the basting operations to discredit the group in terms of […]
