Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2017
According to a draft document leaked online, UK Government is assigning itself more powers to spy on live communications and use malware for surveillance. While the NSAÂ is announcing it will stop surveillance activities on emails, texts, and other internet communications, the UK government has secretly drawn up more details of its new bulk surveillance powers. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 03, 2017
A CIS study estimated number of Aadhaar numbers leaked through 4 gov portals could be around 135 million and 100M bank account numbers. The Aadhaar is the worldâs largest biometric ID system, with over 1.123 billion enrolled members as of 28 February 2017. The role of the system is crucial for both authenticating and authorizing transactions and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 02, 2017
NSA announces a change in its surveillance activities, it will no longer spy on citizens’ emails, texts, and other Internet communications. It is official, the US NSA announced it will no longer spy on emails, texts and other internet communications that mention targets of surveillance.The NSA issued the official statement last week, announcing a historical change of tactic […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 26, 2017
Here are the top four extensions for the Chrome browser to keep your online activity safe, secure and private. The recent global wave of cybercrimes, particularly via exploiting loopholes in many leading browsers, has put internet privacy and online security directly in the line of fire. Internet users, in general, are worried about securing their […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2017
A security researcher presented a method to exfiltrate sensitive data from a laptop or a smartphone through built-in ambient light sensors. The security expert Lukasz Olejnik discovered that it is possible to steal sensitive data exploiting the ambient light sensors built-in many smartphones and laptops. The ambient light sensors are installed on electronic devices to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2017
Microsoft published the biannual transparency report – The number of US foreign intelligence surveillance requests more than doubled. Microsoft shared data included in the biannual transparency report, the IT giant received more than double what the company said it received under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during the preceding six months. Microsoft Corp announced […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 13, 2017
A group of researchers has demonstrated that attackers can steal PINs and Passwords capturing data from smartphone sensors. Modern mobile devices are full of sensors (i.e. GPS, Camera, microphone, accelerometer, magnetometer, proximity, gyroscope, pedometer, and NFC) that could be exploited by hackers to gather data about owner’s activities? A group of researchers from Newcastle University demonstrated that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2017
Fappening 2.0, Nude pictures of several celebrities have been leaked online, including Rose McGowan, Amanda Seyfried and Jillian Murray. Here we are speaking again of Fappening, new nude pictures of celebrities have been leaked online. In 2014 for the first time, several lots of private photographs of celebrities were leaked online, the phenomenon was dubbed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 16, 2017
Privacy Guard is an Android app that evaluates the risks of data privacy relying on the permissions requested by the apps installed on a device. Mobile devices collect a large volume of personal information that could be used for malicious purposes by adversaries. In order to increase the awareness of user towards the possibility of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 12, 2017
Researchers devised a new attack method that can be leveraged to track mobile devices that rely on MAC address randomization mechanism. The MAC address is a unique and an hardcoded identifier assigned to a deviceâs network interface. This characteristic makes it an excellent tool for the tracking of the devices. A group of researchers from the U.S. Naval […]
