Intelligence

Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2012
Anonymous vs Vatican, thirst for justice or criminal act?

Everyone in Italy have read of the attacks made by Anonymous against the Vatican, but very few professionals have expressed a clear position on the incident. Everyone in Italy knows the risks and effects associated with exposure to radio waves emitted by the antennas of radio Vatican, but no one is really the opposite. Children and people […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 13, 2012
Why consider an enemy Iran and not Russia?

There is no doubt that through the analysis of the operations of a State in cyber space it is possible to create a political profile of the country itself, discover the level of technology available and design covenants and relations with other countries. Not a day passes without discussion on the hostile Iran, which would seem […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 12, 2012
Give me your mobile and I’ll tell you who you are!

No doubt the last two years witnessed the true revolution in information technology world is the development and deployment of mobile systems. I speak of mobile systems and I avoid simply to define them “devices” because of their processing capacity equal to a common desktop. Unfortunately the development of the sector is not paid to the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2012
Cyberespionage and new opportunities for cybercrime

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
Mud against Anonymous using Zeus malware

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 February 29, 2012
Young cyber army, cyber threat or resource to enhance?

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
Wikileaks & Anonymous, new alliance against dirty affairs

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 26, 2012
Syria, a massacre began on the web

Syria massacre shocks the world, syrian army has repeatedly bombed the protest city of Homs killing several hundred civilians. The images of the bombings and violence have been broadcasted by the main satellites television Al-Arabiya and Al Jazera, but the Damascus government denied involvement in operations made against civilians, blaming groups of mercenaries trying to incite unrest […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 15, 2012
Stuxnet “neutralized” – Who sows the wind storm gathers!

The news has caused much uproar in the scientific community, according European and U.S. officials and private experts the iranian scientists have isolated and made harmless the Stuxnet malware that has infected the control systems of the nuclear plants all over the country. For some years Iranian security experts are facing with this virus that is […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2012
Nortel, from industrial espionage to bankruptcy

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 […]