Pierluigi Paganini
September 28, 2013
An identity theft service that sells personal information on millions of US citizens has been hacked. Millions of US citizens exposed to Id Theft. Around 5 Millions of Americans are exposed to the concrete risk of identity theft, this is one of most clamorous and grotesque case of data breach, hackers stolen data on US citizens that were stored in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 10, 2013
Security experts continues to observe the evolution of the offer of services and malicious software for fraudsters in the Android underground mobile market. In the last months security firms have observed an increase in criminal activities that exploited Android OS supported by the proactive evolution of the offerings in the underground mobile market. Dancho Danchev is considered one of most accredited experts of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 05, 2013
The majority of financial service professionals considers Man In The Browser as the greatest threat to online banking, cybercrime increases its use. Man In The Browser attack, DDoS attacks, phishing are most insidious cyber threats against banking institutions. Last statistics proposed by principal security firms confirm that online banking is considered a lucrative business for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 09, 2013
China and US governments continue to exchange accusations about the continuing incursions into the respective national networks. China and US governments continue to exchange accusations about the continuing incursions into the respective national networks, the cyber attacks are mainly motivated by sabotage and cyber espionage purposes and are increasing exponentially. US government and intelligence agencies […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 22, 2013
When the HTTP protocol was born in 1999, no one ever thought it will be used by one of the most dangerous Cyber threats called Botnet. A bot is an application that can perform and repeat a particular task faster than a human. When a large number of bots infect different targets (e.g. Computers and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 24, 2013
Last week was monopolized by the discussion on cyber attacks that hit North and South Korea, but I found a news equally stunning, researchers at Hungary-based CrySyS Lab have discovered a decade-long cyber espionage campaign that targeted high-level political and industrial entities in Eastern Europe. The attackers, dubbed by security researchers TeamSpy, used the popular remote-access […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2013
Early this month it was spread the news regarding a sophisticated cyber espionage campaign against principal media agencies in the US, included NYT and Washington Post, the hackers have tried to compromise the email account of journalists to steal sensitive information. The campaign appeared very aggressive, the hackers have tried to infiltrate the network of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2012
Cyber Threat Summit 2012 – 20th & 21th Dublin Pierluigi Paganini presents “The rise of cyber weapons and relative impact on cyber space” About Pierluigi Paganini: Chief Information Security Officer, Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Security expert with over 20 years experience in the field. Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2012
For several days the news circulating online about a planned blackout of Int the rnet for million of users on 8 March decided by FBI to deal with cyber threats. The enemy to fight is named DNSChanger Trojan, a malware that has infected milion of computers all over the world in more than 100 countries. The story begins […]
