Pierluigi Paganini
July 20, 2016
According to the ICO Baby monitors are still open to hackers across the UK, the ICO issued a list of recommendations to avoid privacy breaches. Early this year, the Shodan search engine launched a feature that lets users easily access vulnerable webcams. In September 2015, researchers from the Rapid7 security firm discovered a number of security vulnerabilities affecting several Video […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 17, 2016
A group of researchers has developed Riffle, a new anonymity scheme that provides better security and performance than others, including Tor. Tor is probably the most popular anonymizing network, million of users leveraged on it to protect their privacy and online anonymity. Now Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers revealed a new anonymity architecture that could rival Tor. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 14, 2016
Shard is a free tool that could be used by hackers to discover shared passwords between most popular web services, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, Twitter, or Instagram. In the past months, we have read about numerous data breaches, LinkedIn, MySpace, VerticalScope are just a few examples of illustrious victims. Hundreds of thousands of millions of credentials have flooded the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 09, 2016
Facebook Messenger Starts Testing End-to-End Encryption with Secret Conversations, it is already available for a limited number of users. Facebook is planning to use end-to-end encryption for its Messenger app and has begun rolling out the feature. Facebook has called the new feature ‘Secret Conversations’ and will allow Messenger users to exchange messages that no […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 06, 2016
Cifas, a leading group in fraud protection, recently released its report on the fraud landscape for 2016 and the numbers are staggering. The first lesson taught to anyone working with classified data is that if someone can get all the little pieces of the picture, theyâll eventually have the whole picture. Unfortunately, many users of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 06, 2016
Report on wiretaps in 2015 suggests Americans are using less encryption to hide their activities online, is it really true. Last week, a wiretap report from 2015 surfaced on the United States Courts website that suggests Americans are using less encryption to hide their activities online but the report may not tell the whole story. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2016
Compare and contrast WhatsApp and Telegram, so as to see which of the two messaging apps offers the best option for encrypted chat. Messaging apps have been increasing rapidly in popularity. WhatsApp has gone over one billion users and Telegram claims to have over 350,000 people a day signing up for its services. So, it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2016
The US border authority seeks individuals that want to enter in the Country into providing their social media details in order to improve their screening. It is not a joke, travellers that ask for a visa waiver entry to the US may be asked to provide their social media details. I’m speaking about a proposal of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 30, 2016
In these days, a new anti-terrorism bill is becoming law in Russia, it includes a large number of issues related to internet monitoring. The terrorism is one of the dreaded threats on a global scale, almost every government is spending a significant effort in order to prevent plots against their population. Modern Terrorism is technological, it makes a large […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 08, 2016
The FTCâs chief technologist gets her mobile phone number hijacked, she shared her experience of a victim of such kind of Id Theft. The incident that I’m going to tell you is worrisome, the US Federal Trade Commission’s chief technologist Lorrie Cranor gets her phone number hijacked. The FTC’s chief technologist was hacked by someone posing […]
