Digital ID

Pierluigi Paganini November 23, 2017
Google gathers Android users’ location data even when location services are disabled

Google is secretly gathering location data from billions of Android users, the news is disconcerting and once again raise the debate about user’s privacy. The disconcerting discovery was made by researchers from Quartz. Big G has been caught collecting location data on every Android device owner in the past 11 months. The worse news is that the […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 22, 2017
ProtonMail Contacts – ProtonMail launches world’s first encrypted contacts manager

ProtonMail launched ProtonMail Contacts, the world’s first contact manager with both zero-access encryption and digital signature verification. ProtonMail is announcing today the launch of the world’s first encrypted contacts manager that also features digital signature verification. Starting immediately, the new contacts manager is available to all of ProtonMail’s 5 million users around the world. The development […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 22, 2017
Unbelievable: Uber concealed data breach that exposed 57 Million records in 2016

Unbelievable: Uber concealed data breach that exposed 57 Million records in 2016 and paid hackers to delete stolen records. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced on Tuesday that hackers broke into the company database and accessed the personal data of 57 million of its users, the bad news is that the company covered up the hack […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 20, 2017
The controversial certificate authority StartCom will go out of business on January 1, 2018

The Startcom CA board chairman Xiaosheng Tan, announced that the controversial certificate authority will end its activity on January 1, 2018. The controversial certificate authority StartCom is going to close, according to board chairman Xiaosheng Tan, the business will end its activity on January 1, 2018. Starting from January 1, 2018, StartCom will no longer issue new digital […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 20, 2017
According to UIDAI, more than 200 government websites made Aadhaar system users’ details public

According to the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), details for Aadhaar system were displayed on 210 government websites. The state government websites publicly displayed personal details such as names and addresses of Aadhaar users. The Aadhaar system is the world’s largest biometric ID system, with over 1.123 billion enrolled members as of 28 February 2017. The role of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2017
Terabytes of US military social media surveillance miserably left wide open in AWS S3 buckets

Three AWS S3 buckets containing dozen of terabytes resulting from surveillance on US social media were left wide open online. It has happened again, other three AWS S3 buckets containing dozen of terabytes resulting from surveillance on US social media were left wide open online. The misconfigured AWS S3 buckets contain social media posts and similar pages […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 14, 2017
Freedom of the Net report – Manipulating Social Media, hacking election and much more

Freedom of the Net report – Online manipulation played a crucial role in elections in at least 18 countries over the past year, including the United States. While cyber security experts still debate cyber attacks against 2016 Presidential Election, according to the independent watchdog Freedom House at least 18 countries had their elections hacked last year. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 11, 2017
Ethereum Parity Wallet freeze that locked up $280 million in Ether was a hack, claims Cappasity

According to the startup Cappasity the Ethereum Parity Wallet freeze that locked up $280 million in Ether was deliberately triggered by someone. A few days ago the firm Parity Technologies made the headlines because someone has accidentally triggered a vulnerability in the popular Parity Wallet that locked up $280 million in Ether, including $90 million raised by Parity […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 08, 2017
A regular GitHub user accidentally triggered a flaw Ethereum Parity Wallet that locked up $280 million in Ether

A GitHub user accidentally triggered a flaw in the Parity Wallet library contract of the standard multi-sig contract that locked up $280 million in Ether. Ethereum made again the headlines, someone has accidentally triggered a vulnerability in the popular Parity Wallet that locked up $280 million in Ether, including $90 million raised by Parity Technologies’s founder Gavin Woods. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 03, 2017
Estonia suspends security digital certificates for up to 760,000 state-issued electronic ID-cards over Identity-Theft risk

It has happened, one of the most cyber-savvy states, Estonia decided to block Electronic ID Cards over identity theft risk. On Thursday, Estonia announced that it would suspend security digital certificates for up to 760,000 state-issued electronic ID-cards that are using the buggy chips to mitigate the risk of identity theft. The decision comes after IT security researchers recently […]