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Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2012
All you have to know on DDoS attack against GoDaddy

Yesterday was a terrible day, late afternoon in Europe Time, I noted that my blog Security Affairs, was down. I received several messages from my readers but when I tried to investigate on the reasons I discovered, with a great surprise, that the entire GoDaddy Platform was down. The popular web host supports more than […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 20, 2012
Drone for freedom or cyber threat? The Pirate Bay idea

The news seems to come from a science fiction film, drone aircrafts used to escape the oppressive censorship practiced by many states, the idea has been presented by exponents of the most famous file sharing web site, “The Pirate Bay”. The idea is simple as efficient, they have planned to host their servers on GPS-controlled aircraft drones […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 30, 2012
Social Media, exercise or not exercise the control

Exercise or not exercise the control, that is the question that divides major governments on the social networks surveillance and social media, at the center of heated debates. Always consider myself an avid supporter of freedom of expression and free access to the network, but what I want to do in this post is to […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2011
The year of the networked protest, from SOPA act to Anonymous

It’s end of the year and time for reflections. Yesterday we have discussed on incident occurred to CAs, but what else will we remember of this 2011? No doubts, we will remember the new way to use Internet, an irreplaceable vector for social protests, expression of social malaise and of too much stolen liberty. We […]