surveillence

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2014
Surveillance – How to secretly track cellphone users position around the globe

Using the proper surveillance systems available on the market it is easy and quick to track cellphone and the movements of targets everywhere on the globe. We recently discussed the decision of Wikileaks to publish copies of the criticized surveillance software FinFisher, highlighting the dangers for the militarization of the cyberspace and in particular for […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 15, 2014
Treasure Map – Fiveeyes tap into German telco networks to map end devices

Documents leaked by Snowden reveal the existence of the Treasure Map program run by FiveEyes Intelligence agencies to control the global network. Treasure Map is the name of the last program of intelligence revealed by documents leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden. Treasure Map is a program to map every device exposed on the Internet, […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 24, 2014
Location services, Google is tracking your every move you make

Location services are considered a serious threat to privacy because data managed by company like Google could be used for online surveillance. Many experts consider privacy a utopia, every activity we make online is constantly tracked and in many cases principal service providers manage much more information than needed. Google company has been accused many times […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 21, 2014
SEA has stolen invoices that shows Microsoft charges FBI for user data

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 15, 2014
Syrian Electronic Army hacked the US CENTCOM

Syrian Electronic Army hacked the US CENTCOM and it is threatening to leak secret documents due US decision to hit Syria with electronic warfare attacks. Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) is the group of hackers that most of all is threatening the giants of the IT industry and media, the list of victims is very long (Facebook, Microsoft, NYT, […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2014
The Syrian Electronic Army hacked Forbes

The Syrian Electronic Army has hacked Forbes WordPress CMS and has hijacked Twitter accounts belonging to the media agency. Who will be the next one? Forbes is the new victim of the popular group of hackers Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), the popular group pro Syrian President Assad. The hackers took responsibility for a coordinated attack against multiple […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 06, 2014
Syrian Electronic Army hacks into Facebook’s domain

The Syrian Electronic Army claimed Wednesday that it managed to hack into Facebook violating an administrator account of the Facebook’s Domain Registrar. Syrian Electronic Army hit again, 2014 has started with the exploits of the popular group hackers that hit the giants of IT industry. Microsoft, PayPal, Ebay and also the CNN were hacked in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 02, 2014
Syrian Electronic Army hacked Ebay and Paypal websites

  Ebay and PayPal hacked by Syrian Electronic Army, “For denying Syrian citizens the ability to purchase online products” said SEA. The group of hackers Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has monopolized the attention of the media, the hacking team has practically hit every possible target within government organizations, big enterprises and media agencies. The list of […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2014
Israeli Defense computer hacked via spear phishing attack

Aviv Raff, CTO at Seculert, confirmed that the attackers have penetrated into the network of Israeli Defense accessing to 15 computers. Israeli Defense is another illustrious victim of spear phishing attack, just on Friday Microsoft suffered a similar attack and attackers breached the email accounts of its staff accessing to documents on law enforcement inquiries. Reuters agency […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2014
Spear phishing against Microsoft, exposed law enforcement inquiries

Attackers breached the email accounts of Microsoft staff, probably with a spear phishing attack, accessing to documents on law enforcement inquiries. Spear phishing attacks are within most insidious attacks for private companies and organizations, they are primarily caused for data breach occurred in the last couple of years. Despite the awareness of this type of cyber […]