Digital ID

Pierluigi Paganini April 13, 2015
Encryption Increases Its Popularity and US Is in a Dilemma

Encryption has been used by more people over time and this has led to the NSA and the US Government to suggest new ways of accessing encrypted content. The uprising course of encryption and the fact that its use has become a lot more frequent and continues on increasing in popularity has made the United States wonder how they […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 11, 2015
Fake NYPD Badges available for sale on dark web

Experts at Trustev discovered on the Nucleus black market lifetime subscriptions to popular streaming services and fake NYPD badges. In the last months, we have assisted numerous operations run by law enforcement against illegal activities in the dark web, in particular against the numerous black markets that sell any kind of product and services. Everyone could […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 08, 2015
Snowden keeps saying that US is still catching our emails

The British television host scored a rare one-on-one interview in Moscow with Edward Snowden for the Sunday’s edition of the “John Oliver Tonight” show. A British channel hosted a rare interview with Snowden in Moscow, the interview was conducted by John Oliver from “John Oliver Tonight.” Aside from jokes like “Do you miss a hot […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 05, 2015
Google Internet Authority G2 has become untrusted due to an expired certificate

Gmail and Google Apps have noticed on Saturday that the Google Internet Authority G2 has become untrusted due to an expired digital certificate. On Saturday April 4, the Google Internet Certificate Authority G2 has become untrusted due to an expired digital certificate in the chain of trust. The Google Internet Authority G2 is an essential component of the Google PKI […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2015
G20 World leaders were victims of accidentally privacy breach

G20 World leaders were victims of accidentally privacy breach, but Australian authorities decided to not inform victims due to low risk of exposure. The personal details of world leaders have been accidentally revealed by the organisers of the G20 summit, passport numbers and other details belonging to Obama, Xi Jinping, Putin, Merkel, Cameron, Modi and others were […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 24, 2015
Chinese CA issued bogus digital certificates for Google domains

Google security team has recently discovered and blocked fraudulent digital certificates issued for several Google domains by a Chinese CA. On March 20, Google security team has discovered and blocked fraudulent digital certificates issued for several Google domains. The investigation revealed that a Chinese certificate authority was using an intermediate CA, MCS Holdings, that issued the bogus […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2015
Microsoft discovered a bogus SSL digital certificate for Live that could be exploited for MITM attacks

Microsoft has blocked a bogus HTTPS digital certificate that was issued for one of Live Web addresses and could be exploited to run MITM attacks. In January, an unnamed man came into possession of the live.fi certificate after noticing that he was able to use [email protected] as an alias for his normal e-mail address. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2015
Yahoo launches its on-demand password feature

Yahoo announced its new on-demand password feature that lets users into login in their account with a code sent to their mobile phone. Yahoo has announced a new Password-Free login feature to let users access their account without the need for a password. When users will sign in his account, an on-demand password is sent to a […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2015
MPs Try to Ban Tor network for the Common Good, but Raise Concerns

Banning Tor network would bring a lot of public distress and would raise reactions, according to Governmental advisors and thus David Cameron is left without support on the matter of banning encryption. The MPs know really well that the Internet is a really magnificent service that can be used in an excellent manner by simple […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 13, 2015
Google privacy breach caused by a software defect

Expert at Cisco discovered a privacy breach caused by a software problem, which exposed personal information of users that opted for privacy setting. A software problem occurred at Google have exposed personal information of users that registered their website and had chosen to keep their profile private. The flaw affected the whois database that contains contact […]