Pierluigi Paganini
March 09, 2012
In this first couple of months of 2012 we have assisted to an escalation of cyber attacks made by groups of hacktivist, first Anonymous, that have hit main institutions and agencies all over the world. The modus operandi of the group is now well known, attacks that have crippled many victims were mainly of DDoS type, in this way […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 08, 2012
The continued technology push that is shaping our society during the last decade has brought an exponential increase in computer crimes, every technology innovation has in fact represented an opportunity for industry of crimeto make profitable frauds and business. The cyber crime has many facets, cybercrime fact manifests itself in countless forms and contextualized in relation […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 06, 2012
Symantec company recently has disclosed the news that the collective Anonymous has deceived his supporters favoring the spread and installing of Zeus malware on their machines. The charge is heavy and would undermine the trust that underpins the recruitment methods of the collective, it seems that all supporters who have participated to various Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 04, 2012
Published on The Hacker News Magazine – March 2012 During the last years we have seen the tendency to use social media as a major vector for the exchange of information. The communication concept has been totally revolutionized as billions of people could be in contact with a few clicks thanks to the social network platforms. Imperative is to be social, no matter if […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 29, 2012
We live in economically tumultuous days and even more in the cyberspace. Not a day goes by that you do not observe a striking hack, yet another multinational ridiculed and made bare and vulnerable to human eyes. It’s happened with Sony, with RSA with Stratfor, clay giants collapsed at the hands of groups of hactivists, a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2012
The day has come, WikiLeaks began publishing more than five million emails from Texas-based global security think tank company Stratfor, a global intelligence firm. This time WikiLeaks has chosen a strategic partner, the international Internet hacktivist group of Anonymous, two forces that together are able to frighten the world’s great, the new alliance against dirty affairs. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 24, 2012
The Mehr News Agency has published a declaration of brigadier general Gholamreza Jalali collected during an official conference that demonstrate the high interest in warfare of Iran. “The US is downsizing its army for bigger cyber defense infrastructure. So countries like Iran also have to set up and upgrade their cyber defense headquarters and even [build] […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2012
Where can I find money? At the bank of course, this is the thought which underlies dell’orietamento of cyber crime that seems to have targeted the banking industry and its services. The event is not new but the intensification of efforts in this area is troubling . The banking sector is considered a strategic sector […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2012
By now the news of successful attacks perpetrated against private companies are no more surprising except sometimes for inefficiency of the implemented security policies . The Wall Street Journal has reported the news that the telecoms company Nortel Networks has been repeatedly exploited by Chinese hackers for a long time, almost a decade. The former Nortel […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2012
Just this morning I wrote in my article the ability of the Anonymous group that stands out in my assessment for the effectiveness of its operations. I tried to analyze the phenomenon, and I noticed that many colleagues tend to approach hacktivists ideology as a student movement, disorganized, and that can only be due to […]
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