Hacktivism

Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2012
Anonymous “United as one, divided by zero” a click for freedom

In these days we have witnessed the escalation of operations conducted by the Anonymous group, the hacker group that is espressing a social dissent througth cyber attacks. The Internet world is profoundly changing, and the threat of hacktivist groups represents one of the major cyber threats. We must consider that the attacks of these groups […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2012
Which is the main cyber threat? The violated freedom

In these days we have witnessed the escalation of attacks who took the state of Israel as a target. Groups of hackers have coalesced to express their dissent against the policy government. I mention this case because I consider emblematic the answer provided by the Israeli government officials, they have declared infact that attacks like […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 18, 2012
Symantec, the inconvenient truth on the data breach

Do you remember the case of Symantec and the theft of the source code of some of its products by an Indian group of hackers called the lord of Dharmaraja? On that occasion it was declared by Symantec officials that the source code of its products had been stolen in a successful attack to the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 17, 2012
Israel under a cyber warfare escalation

This week has began under worse auspices worse for Israel, which, despite its attention to the cyber threats posed by cyber-space, has been victim of a series of attacks that have checkmated the government of Jerusalem. Israel is facing with a true escalation in cyberwar, not identified attackers have in fact pulled down two principal […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 16, 2012
T-Mobile Hacked. Hacktivism strikes again

The year 2012 has started in the worst way in terms of cyber security, because we have observed several attacks settled successfully against military organizations and private companies. After the sensational case of the Zappos data breach and of the cyber escalation which Israel is a victim, also the company T-Mobile has suffered an attack. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 16, 2012
Zappos data breach, 24M users exposed

In this hours is circulating in internet the news regarding a new clamorous hack that this time has hit the online retailer Zappos.com, a division of Amazon. According the official announcement of the company it was victim of a cyber attack that gained access to its internal network exposing sensible information. Seems to be that […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 09, 2012
Rim, Nokia and Apple. Monitoring, interferences and violated privacy

What I want to discuss today is the interference of governments in what should be the private business and what are the consequences of an attitude so invasive. The news of this hour is that Nokia, RIM and Apple have provided to the Indian government, particularly its militia, a backdoor that provides the ability to control […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2012
The strategic importance of censorship in search engines

Every day, billions of people making an unimaginable number of searches through search engines. Complex algorithms seek to recover in the shortest possible time and with greater sorrowfulness the requested information. We may venture that a good 80% of Internet users interact with the web through these powerful applications. But the engines are much more, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2012
A Distributed Satellite Ground Station Network for internet freedom

The news that I desire to discuss with you is the will to put into orbit a satellite system to combat new forms of censorship. The project is certainly ambitious and effective, an hacker group has decided to launch a series of satellites for the composition of an alternative communication platform that would be used […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 31, 2011
The power of social networks

For years now we live with the confirmation of the importance of social networks and their impact on daily life. As with any other subject there are many and conflicting opinions on what is considered a social revolution. Millions, billions of people who daily exchange thoughts, opinions, images, emotions, anything that makes us feel alive […]