Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2013
The purpose of this article is to cover the challenges SMBs are facing when it comes to using authentication methods to protect their online websites and applications, and comparing a number of two factor authentication services for SMBs. The report includes: – Why ‘password only’ protection is not enough anymore – The challenges of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2012
The large diffusion of new services on mobile platforms and social networks was accompanied with a sensible increase of cyber crimes, mainly of identity theft. The US nonprofit consumer watchdog organization Consumer Reports has recently spread an alert on online purchases benefiting of Cyber Monday sales and more in general of discounts for this holiday […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 24, 2012
Article published on The Malta Indipendent Ron Kelson, Pierluigi Paganini, Fabian Martin, David Pace, Benjamin Gittins We use the Internet on a daily basis to access numerous services available on the web, most of which require a process of identification and validation of a user’s identity, a process commonly defined as Authentication. As Wikipedia states, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 10, 2012
Article published on The Malta Indipendent Ron Kelson, Pierluigi Paganini, Fabian Martin, David Pace, Benjamin Gittins In our previous articles we discussed malware, phishing, viruses and other computer infections designed to maliciously acquire your personal information. Last week we talked about low privacy settings on social networks, today we will talk about weak passwords. Most people […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 07, 2012
It’s happened, today has been diffused the news that users’ passwords of the most famous business social network LinkedIn have been stolen and leaked on Internet. The company, through it blog, has confirmed the event declaring that more than six million passwords were compromised. Following the message published We want to provide you with an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 22, 2012
A serious vulnerability has been found in the authentication process of the popular network LinkedIN, the news published on the Spanish blog of the security expert Fernando A. Lagos Berardi. The article published reports that a vulnerability in LinkedIn allows obtaining user’s password. For the authentication process LinkedIn adopts a token in login phase that can […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 15, 2012
In this article I desire to discuss about the data provided in the 2011 IC3 Internet Crime Report that provide evidence of the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) against cybercrime in US and of the obtained results. On May 8, 2000 from a partnership between NW3C, BJA and the FBI was born The Internet Fraud Complaint […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 01, 2012
Every day we exchange personal information with colleagues, friends and unknown people with no idea how they are treated and for what use they will be managed. Telephone number, email address or driver’s license number are example of the data we provide ordinary using new media channels like internet and the social networks. The use […]
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