Hacktivism

Pierluigi Paganini March 25, 2012
US Experts say: Government Networks constantly hacked

For years, we have discussed the importance of appropriate cyber strategy and the necessity to preside over the main critical infrastructures to defend them from cyber threats of any kind and in our imagination we have always considered the US as a country at the forefront. While the cyber security experts analyze the progress made […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 22, 2012
Verizon Report, the wind of hacktivism pushes cybercrime

Just yesterday I completed a lengthy article regarding several aspects of cybercrime and their impact on private and military sectors. In a section of the article describing among other factors the impact of the phenomenon hacktivism far from negligible.  According the study “Data Breach Investigations Report” published by Verizon hacktivists stole almost twice as many records of […]

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 March 19, 2012
Millions US government email addresses in the hands of the cybercrime

It has repeatedly reiterated the need for a cyber strategy to reduce risks related to cyber threats from various sources, military, cyber crime or hacktivism. Cyber ​​threats expose our intelligence agencies, our critical infrastructures and our companies to significant risks causing untold perfidious finance. In the area of ​​cyber warfare governments have made considerable strides, gained awareness of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 18, 2012
Anonymous fake OS, who is behind it?

In recent days, by chance I discussed with colleagues the relationship between the Vatican and Anonymous groups because I consider the Holy See a very attractive target for several reason. A few hours later the site of Vatican went down, while I was writing of the possibility of OpBlackout and regarding the basting operations to discredit the group in terms of […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2012
CIA and the intelligence components of the things

Unfortunately, we rarely stop to reflect on the reality that surrounds us and the potential of the devices we use every day in the office, at home and when we’re out. The technology behind each of them has became the main architect of their operation and no matter whether we are talking about our phone or […]

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 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 09, 2012
Anonymous, DNS Amplification Attacks for Operation Global Blackout

In this first couple of months of 2012 we have assisted to an escalation of cyber attacks made by  groups of hacktivist, first Anonymous, that have hit main institutions and agencies all over the world. The modus operandi of the group is now well known, attacks that have crippled many victims were mainly of DDoS type, in this way […]

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 […]