privacy

Pierluigi Paganini April 04, 2016
The Dronecatcher evolves featuring a new improvement

Delft Dynamics conducted a successful test, where a drone was taken out of the air by another unmanned aerial vehicle named DroneCatcher. The drone industry is growing at a rapid pace. Aerospace research company Teal Group has estimated that sales of military and civilian drones will total over $89 billion in the next 10 years. […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2016
Feds request Judge to review the order to reveal TOR Exploit Code

FBI is fighting back against the federal judge’s order to reveal the Tor Exploit and with DoJ filed a sealed motion requesting the review of the ruling. A few weeks ago, a judge has ordered the FBI to reveal the complete source code for the TOR exploit to defense lawyers in a child porn case. In a […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 22, 2016
Tor Project and the new anti-tampering measures for its software

Tor Project revealed how the organization has conducted a three-year long work to improve its ability to detect fraudulent software. The experts at the Tor Project are working to improve the resilience of the anonymizing network to cyber attacks, in particular, they aim to quickly detect any surveillance activity conducted by tempering the Tor system. The researchers fear […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2016
ProtonMail is open. Do you want an encrypted email account? Sign in!

ProtonMail, the world’s largest privacy-focused and encrypted email provider, announced today that the service is leaving beta.     ProtonMail, the world’s largest privacy-focused and encrypted email provider, announced today that the service is leaving beta and will be allowing open registrations for the first time in nearly two years. For the past couple of […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 09, 2016
Let’s Encrypt has already issued one Million certificates

The Electronic Frontier Foundation announced that the Let’s Encrypt Certificate Authority issued its millionth certificate. The open Certificate Authority (CA) Let’s Encrypt seems to be a success, the EFF is reaching its goals with the creation of this new certificate authority run by Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). IT giants like Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, Automattic and […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 03, 2016
$17 smartwatch includes a backdoor in the pairing app

A group of researchers that analyzed security of a number of smart watches discovered a $17 smartwatch is sold with a backdoor in the pairing app. Be careful of cheap smartwatch offered on the web, security researchers at Mobile Iron have found that the U8 Smartwatch available on eBay for sale is offered with an Android or iOS app […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 03, 2016
RSA Conference Badge Scanning App has a default password hardcoded

Researchers at Bluebox Security discovered that the badge scanning application used at the RSA Conference 2016 includes a hardcoded default password. This year participants at the 2016 RSA Conference will have an ugly surprise, many vendors were provided with Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphones that run a special Android app, available on the Google Play, that allows them to […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 02, 2016
Brazilian police arrested Facebook Vice President for Latin America

Brazilian authorities arrested the Facebook Vice President for Latin America accused of ignoring judicial order in drug trafficking investigation. Law enforcement worldwide is increasing their pressure on IT companies for accessing users’ data, while we are discussing the San Bernardino case (aka Apple vs FBI) another news is shocking the industry, Facebook Vice President has been arrested […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 29, 2016
A journalist has been hacked on a plane while writing an Apple-FBI story

The journalist Steven Petrow had his computer hacked while on a plane, it was a shocking experience that raises the discussion on privacy. Experts in the aviation industry are spending a significant effort in the attempt of improving cyber security. The news that I’m going to tell you has something of incredible. The American journalist […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 28, 2016
German authorities approve the use of home-made Federal Trojan

The German Interior Ministry has approved the use of a federal Trojan developed by the German Federal Criminal Police. The German Interior Ministry has approved the use a spyware developed by the German Federal Criminal Police, aka the ‘federal Trojan’ or Bundestrojaner, for the investigative purpose. “Soon the state could re-enter the computer of suspicious […]