TITLE
Cybercrime: wrong myths and erroneous researches, compared with the 
Hacker's Profiling Project (HPP) by ISECOM

ABSTRACT
This talk will detail the results learned from the first 3 years of 
activity of the HPP research study, developped by Raoul Chiesa, a 
security researchers, and Dr. Stefania Ducci, a criminologic researcher 
at UNICRI (United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research 
Institute, ONU). The research project includes the dissemination of 
questionnaires, the installation of targetted Honeynet systems and the 
cross-linked analysis of computer intrusions and IT attacks.
You will discover how many myths about the hackers and the so-called 
"security underground world" have been often misunderstood, giving to 
this world kind of a "black vision", taking away the attention from the 
really important psicological and technical issues of a reality in 
continuos development.


BIO:

Raoul Chiesa was born in Turin on 3rd July 1973: he has been one of the 
first hackers in Italy.

His first wanderings on the international computer networks of the 
biggest Eighties and Nineties companies date back to 1986, when he was 
13, under the nickname of Nobody After a series of sensational 
interferences, such as telcos and other military, governmental, and 
financial institutions, he was officially recognised as one of the main 
members of the European and North American hacker scene by international 
authorities in 1995.

As founder and C.T.O. of @ Mediaservice.net, an italian 
vendor-independent, security consulting firm, Raoul Chiesa has been 
active in the field of computer security research at a high level since 
1997, together with a team of experts and technicians who gave their 
contribution to national and international Security R&D projects.

In 2000, Prof. Danilo Bruschi, President of CLUSIT, asked him to be a 
founder member of the Italian Association for Computer Security; since 
the first year of activity of the association, Raoul Chiesa has been a 
member of its Board of Directors, participating in the work of the Study 
Commission about theCertifications in Computer Security and acting as a 
coordinator of the Open Source and Security’s Commission.

In 2002, two security researchers and Raoul founded the italian-based 
association “Blackhats.it”, a group of security experts and hackers, 
some of whom working in the field of ICT, who decided to collaborate as 
a single entity. It is a handful of computer security professionals, 
strongly linked to “underground” world and genuine hacker 
philosophy, men and women who devoted themselves to technological 
innovations and to the improvement of security standards on the Internet.

Since 2003, Raoul Chiesa is the Southern Europe Referent for TSTF 
(Telecom Security Task Force), an international panel of consultants 
with high level skills on telcos present in four continents; in the same 
year Raoul Chiesa was elected in the ISECOM’s International Executive 
Board, following his role of Director of Communications for the 
Institute (2004).