Pierluigi Paganini
July 11, 2012
The hacktivists of Anonymous are always on and always operating despite many experts continue to downplay the importance and effectiveness of its operations. In recent days the name of the collective was involved in a clamorous revelations for his contribution in the dissemination of precious “Syria Files” a collection of correspondences that detect uncomfortable murky […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 10, 2012
Big outcry on Wikileaks that last week has published more that 2.4 million emails allegedly obtained from continuous hack against Syrian government and organizations connected to the regime. The correspondence of âSyrian political figures, ministries and associated companiesâ between August 2006 and March 2012 has been defined embarrassing for the government of Damascus and its […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2012
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 21, 2012
We live in the cyber era, governments measure their capabilities in the cyberspace with reciprocal attacks of increasing complexity.Every government is developing an adequate cyber strategy investing huge quantity of money in the establishment of cyber units, on formation of groups of cyber experts and on the development of new cyber weapons. In this scenario […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 20, 2012
Money motivates the cyber assault to banking by cybercrime, but the finance world is also considered a privileged target for sponsored-state attacks as part of cyber offense strategies. Let’s consider that the banking world is profoundly changing, the introduction of mobile devices, social networks, the openess to web services, the coming of new technologies such […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2012
Article Published on The Hacker New Magazine â May Edition âThey are Not What You Think they Are ⊠they are hacktivists” During the last couple of years, we have witnessed the escalation of operations conducted by the Anonymous group, the collective of hackers that is expressing a social dissent through cyber attacks. In modern society, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2012
The story that I desire to report seems the plot of a movie, Khosrow Zarefarid an Iranian software manager after finding security vulnerability in Iranâs 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
March 05, 2012
Everything started last week when has been announced that a laptop stolen from NASA during last year contained command codes used to control the International Space Station. The news is sensations as worrying, is it possible to store so sensible information without using any precaution like disk encryption. Are we discussing about an isolated case […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2012
What are the main dangers for our infrastructures? Too much threats which any country is exposed. The situation is bleak, suddenly the sectors of defense found themselves vulnerable to cyber threats. Once nations shown their proud arms, flaunt power, intimidating opponents in this way. Today the way of fighting is radically changed, the battleground is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2012
The group of hacktivist known as Anonymous is considered as the uncontrollable variable in the cyber space capable of surprising us with striking operations worthy of the most skilled cyber army. Precisely this is the point, are we sure that the group’s operations are so difficult to control or predict? Are we able to mitigate the risks of exposure? […]
