Pierluigi Paganini
March 21, 2014
A collection of emails hacked by the group Syrian Electronic Army shows that Microsoft charges the FBI’s Digital Intercept Technology Unit for user data. No more than a week ago hackers of the group Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) published online documents leaked from US CENTCOM repository, now the pro President Bashar al-Assad sad hacking team successfully penetrated […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 21, 2014
Google has announced to have adopted encrypt mechanisms for all Gmail connections to reply to the increasing demand of privacy of Internet users. Google decided to encrypt all Gmail connections to reply to the increasing demand of privacy of Internet users, all the links between its data centers will be encrypted. The surveillance programs disclosed by documents leaked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 20, 2014
For more than two months is is present in the official App Store a fake version of the Tor Browser app. It’s full of adware and spyware. The Tor Browser is the most popular tool for anonymization of the user’s Internet experience, it’s use is literally exploded after the disclosure of numerous documents leaked by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2014
Documents leaked by Snowden reveals that NSA has built a surveillance system capable of recording all the phone calls of a foreign country. The information on the surveillance capabilities of the National Security Agency is updated on a daily base and last news is that the agency has the necessary technology to record all the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2014
Darpa is scouting the private companies to recruit high skilled professional and use company infrastructure to protect classified information. The Pentagon is searching cyber experts to address the growing shortage of highly professional in the field, the US Government is making scouting for expert hackers in the private sector. The control of the cyberspace and the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 16, 2014
Security experts at Rapid7 firm have public disclosed a series of flaws affecting several thousands of critical infrastructure using Yokogawa software. Several thousands of critical infrastructure may still be vulnerable to SCADA flaws public disclosed this week. It has been estimated that more than 7,600 different chemicals, power and petrochemical plants are affected by the bugs disclosed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 14, 2014
A security consultant disclosed a security flaw in WhatsApp which can be exploited to gain access to the private chats of Android device owners. The recent acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook has done much to discuss, ever a price so high was paid for an app, but major concerns relate to users’ privacy. The security consultant Bas Bosschert […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 05, 2014
A serious flaw in the certificate verification process of GnuTLS exposes Linux distros, apps to attack. Another flaw exploitable for surveillance purposes. GnuTLS is an open source secure communications library implementing the SSL, TLS and DTLS protocols, it is used in hundreds of software packages including Red Hat desktop, all Debian and Ubuntu Linux distributions and many […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 28, 2014
The Guardian revealed that under the surveillance program Optic Nerve the GCHQ has intercepted webcam images from millions of Yahoo users around the world. A new collection of documents leaked by Edward Snowden has made public the program Optic Nerve, yet another surveillance operation operated by the intelligence agencies since 2008. The news was reported by The Guardian, Optic […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 28, 2014
Secunia’s Vulnerability Review 2014 provides an interesting analysis of the number of vulnerabilities in the Top 50 portfolio products. The Secunia Vulnerability Review provides a vision on global vulnerability trends, evaluating carefully the 50 most popular programs on private PCs. These programs are practically everywhere, in many cases, they are key application for ordinary IT […]
