privacy

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 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 29, 2015
British Airways Executive Club members accounts compromised

British Airways Executive Club member accounts were hacked, it isn’t a data breach but hackers used credentials available in the underground. The popular security expert Graham Cluley reported that Members of British Airways Executive Club are noticing suspicious activities for their accounts. The Members of British Airways Executive Club observed that their accounts were mysteriously emptied of […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 25, 2015
Discovering who is tracking your emails with UglyEmail

UglyEmail Chrome extension could help Google users to discover which are the companies on the web that track their email messages. Even if the following names don’t ring you a bell, companies like Yesware, Bananatag, and Streak are aware of your existence, to be more specific, they know when you open e-mail sent by one […]

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 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 […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 05, 2015
Drones spying on cell phones for Advertizing campaigns

The Singapore-based company AdNear is using a fleet of commercial drones to determine users’ location and deliver hyper-targeted ads. Drones that spy on unaware people, a nightmare come true, apparently nothing new considering that it is a common practice of law enforcement and Intelligence agency. The bad news is that also a few advertising companies are also […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 02, 2015
Facebook Policies and New Terms of Use Have Been under Scrutiny in Europe

A recent report about the privacy policy of Facebook has shed light to potential problems and disagreements with legal concerns in the EU. There is a recent report from Belgium focusing on the revised terms of use that have to do with Facebook. Due to its enormous popularity even apart from the fact that it’s […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 27, 2015
Tor Browser 4_0_4 Release improves security and privacy

The Tor Project has announced a new version of Tor Browser Bundle, Tor version 4.0.4, that improves privacy and security features. The Tor Project has announced a new release of the Tor Browser Bundle, Tor Browser version 4.0.4, that improves privacy and security features implemented by the popular anonymizing software. The Tor Browser is used by Internet users […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 26, 2015
Doubts about how CSE monitors Canadian emails to the Government

New secret documents leaked by Snowden reveal that CSE monitors millions of Canadian emails to Government, but privacy advocates criticized how CSE does it. Privacy advocates and Canadians are worried by the last bunch of document leaked by Edward Snowden related to the surveillance activities conducted by the Canadian Security Establishment (CSE). The national broadcaster Canadian […]