Pierluigi Paganini
August 03, 2012
Crazy … a year ago on a warm June evening I began to formalize some ideas on a concept of great relevance today, the âsocial network poisoningâ. I am the person who coined the term, proposing the scientific community with some colleagues who share my ideas as Andrea Zapparoli Manzoni and Kalos Bonasia. Immediately I inserted […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 07, 2012
It’s happened, today has been diffused the news that usersâ passwords of the most famous business social network LinkedIn have been stolen and leaked on Internet. The company, through it blog, has confirmed the event declaring that more than six million passwords were compromised. Following the message published We want to provide you with an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 17, 2012
The experts of Trusteer firm have discovered a new variant Zeus malware responsible of a series of attacks against principal internet service providers. The variant carried out attacks using the P2P network architecture targeting users of Facebook, Hotmail and Yahoo and Google Mail. What is Zeus? The Zeus Trojan is one of most notourios malware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2012
Social Networks represent a rich mine of information of great interest for researchers, cybercriminals and government agencies. Analyzing the networks is possible to track detailed profile of any users, his relationships and his habits, the possibility to exercise the control of social networks is an actual form of power, the power of knowledge. We have […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 03, 2012
It’s a pleasure for me to propose to my readers an article of my colleagues of TheBestDegrees Group on social networking and related crimes. Several times I highlighted the importance of social networking and of all related form of communication. Of course with the rapid diffusion of technology the number of crimes is increased dramatically. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 15, 2012
Another Saturday, another round, as announced today the group Anonymous has targeted government sites to protest against British government policy. Nothing new over last week, same goals, same mode of attack, the same result. On internet bounced messages of joy for having staged the second act of the operation called by the group #OpTrialAtHome. Let’s start making some reflections on the real utility of these […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 23, 2012
A few days ago I wrote about the dangers relating to a not careful attendance of social networks, powerful platforms and privileged communication tools, the subject of increasing interest of cybercrime. Many possibilities for attack across these platforms, from social engineering to cyber espionage, not forgetting the spread of all types of malware. Endless audiences […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 12, 2012
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 11, 2012
A few days ago I wrote an article on cyber espionage and its higher incidence in the computer crimes. What are the figures who most frequently perform operations of this type? An interest in cyber espionage has been demonstrated by government agencies in search of sensitive information and information relating to industrial technologies used by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 28, 2012
It is impossible to argue otherwise, after one days from the publication of mail stolen during the hack to Stratfor, it’s time to analyze them in the light of political events in recent years. More than a surprise in many cases we have had confirmation on the controversial work made by governments, companies and security […]
