Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2014
Syrian Electronic Army hacked the US CENTCOM and it is threatening to leak secret documents due US decision to hit Syria with electronic warfare attacks. Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) is the group of hackers that most of all is threatening the giants of the IT industry and media, the list of victims is very long (Facebook, Microsoft, NYT, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 30, 2014
Interviewed with Mark Collier, CTO and VP of Engineering at Securelogix to better understand the topic of Telephony Denial of Service (TDoS). I briefly interviewed Mark Collier, CTO and VP of Engineering at SecureLogix (Www.securelogix.com) on the topic of Telephony Denial of Service (TDoS). Mark just completed the Hacking Exposed: UC and VoIP book, which covers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 26, 2014
Attackers breached the email accounts of Microsoft staff, probably with a spear phishing attack, accessing to documents on law enforcement inquiries. Spear phishing attacks are within most insidious attacks for private companies and organizations, they are primarily caused for data breach occurred in the last couple of years. Despite the awareness of this type of cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 12, 2014
Microsoft hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army for a second time in 2014, MSFTNews Twitter account hijacked, sends out SEA messages. Again Syrian Electronic Army, the popular group of Hackers this time hacked the Microsoft News Twitter account â @MSFTNews. The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has compromised early 2014 the Skypeâs Twitter account and blog to protest […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 07, 2014
The Indian Government is launching Netra project for internet surveillance. Obvious concerns for online privacy and freedom of expression of Indian population. The Internet surveillance in India is reality thanks a project codenamed NETRA (Network Traffic Analysis), it is able to detect and automatically capture any voice traffic passing through software such as VoIP systems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 02, 2014
The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) have compromised Skype ‘s Twitter account and blog to protest against the support provided to NSA surveillance programme. Syrian Electronic Army has conducted first hack of 2014 hitting Skype, the group of hackers want to remind us that nothing is secure and that netizens will never accept the monitoring of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 13, 2013
The guardian issued new top secret documents gathered by Edward Snowden demonstrating the intense collaboration between Microsoft and US government. Edward Snowden has issued new top secret documents demonstrating the intense collaboration between Microsoft and US government, in particular the whistleblower revealed the support received by the NSAÂ that obtained by the company the access to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 25, 2013
German researchers revealed that Microsoft is able to intercept Skype conversation for security reason. Which are risks to the users’ privacy? Microsoft intercept Skype conversations, the topic is at the center of a heated discussion. Before Microsoft acquisition the popular VOIP application was considered very secure and wiretap-proof, it was officially recognized that was impossible […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 10, 2013
In various articles I wrote on the large diffusion of botnets and the capabilities of malicious agents to use as spread channel the social media platforms or popular applications. The diffusion and management of a botnet architecture has never been so easy, the underground offer covers every need and provides advanced customization services. Security expert […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 10, 2013
In many occasion we have discussed about the consequences of monitoring activities on internet and communication channels operated by governments all over the world, in particular of the censorship and persecutions operated by authoritarian regimes. In discussion is the technological support often provide by Western IT company in the name of business that totally ignore […]
