Pierluigi Paganini
September 23, 2012
Reports from main security firms confirm the increasing growth of cyber attacks based on malware, in particular the large diffusion of Apple products has made them desirable targets. The explosion of malicious agents designed for Apple OS X operating system as surprised Apple users that have found themselves suddenly vulnerable exactly such as users of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 12, 2012
The malware factory still evolving, every day security firms detect new cyber threats that show new sophisticated techniques to avoid protection systems, this is a war that law enforcement fight against cyber criminals. Internet has a new web exploit produced by crime industry, its particularity is that in the deployment phase it is able to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 30, 2012
Another excellent discovery of the active experts of Kaspersky Labs that have identified a new variant of the malware used in Tibet against Uyghur hacktivists, a Turkic ethnic group living in Eastern and Central Asia. The instance of Tibet malware detected infects OS X machines and is spread following a consolidated schema for politically motivated […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 22, 2012
Yesterday I discussed with a friend and colleague Francesco on the lack of awareness of Apple’s users on malware that plague products of the house in Cupertino. This consideration is one of the reasons of the success in malware development for Apple, the users totally ignore that Apple machines are equivalent to any other kind of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 27, 2011
The control of information is the main concern of Governments. More or less declared the major players of a precarious global economy have implemented digital surveillance systems, from India to China, passing Russia and USA. The crucial point is the legality of these actions conducted by Intelligence Agencies in the name of Nations Security abusing the rights of citizens. To this we must consider another significant issue , the corruption. Corruption has no Country and is a cross problem […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 06, 2011
Mac malware has been making some headlines in the last few months, as attackers have begun applying to OS X some of the tactics they’ve been using on Windows for decades. Security analysts have discovered several variants of the DevilRobber Mac OS X Trojan, the last one is also able to steal files, installs a […]
