Pierluigi Paganini
January 01, 2016
Experts at the last Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg  analyzed the North Korean ‘paranoid’ Red Star OS computer operating system. North Korea has its new operating system, the Red Star OS, which is used by the population of a country NOT connected to the World Wide Web to access state media and some officially approved sites. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 01, 2016
After a report from the WSJ, the US Government is facing an allegation regarding eavesdropping of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and members of Congress. After a report from the Wall Street Journal, the US Government is facing an allegation regarding eavesdropping of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and members of Congress. According to a report from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 31, 2015
Valve company publicly confirmed that Steam deployed a buggy caching configuration to mitigate a DDoS attack which exposed Steam users personal information. Still problems for the Steam gaming platform, details of 34,000 Steam users have been exposed during a DDoS attack. Last week, as a result of a configuration change, a security issue allowed some Steam […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 31, 2015
Google confirms that the next Android versions will use Oracleâs open-source OpenJDK instead the Java APIs, a strategic choice. Google is leaving Java application programming interfaces (APIs) in future versions of its mobile operating system Android. The company is planning to adopt as an alternative an open source solution. What is this OpenJDK? It is an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 30, 2015
Ian Murdock died in mysterious circumstances, is it a suicide or a murder? There are still a lot of things unclear. I’m shocked, Ian Murdock, the founder the Debian Linux operating system, one of the most brilliant minds of IT industry has passed away. How many times did you use the command apt-get, well it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 30, 2015
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and local law enforcement confirmed that Drug Traffickers are hacking surveillance drones on the border. Small drones are another powerful tool used by the US Department of Homeland Security to monitor its borders, but drug traffickers already adopting countermeasures. In order to avoid surveillance, drug traffickers are hacking US […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 30, 2015
The Tor officially announced to launch the Tor Bug Bounty Program in the next year, a great news for the Tor community. The non-profit organization that is maintaining the TOR project plans to launch very soon a Tor Bug Bounty Program for researchers who find vulnerabilities in the popular anonymizing platform. This is a great for all the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 30, 2015
The US Department of Corrections discovered a long-standing software bug that resulted in the early release of prisoners. This news is disconcerting and demonstrates the importance to carefiĂŹully consider the technology in our lives. The Washington State Department of Corrections (DoC) launched an investigation after it early released 3,200 prisoners over the course of 13 years. It […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 30, 2015
The Ukrainian Government is blaming Russians state-sponsored hackers for a number of electricity cut-offs occurred in Western Ukraine. The Ukrainian Government is suffering a series of power outages in the Western region of the country likely caused by cyber attacks. The Ukrainian Government believes that the power outages are caused by operations conducted by Russian […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 29, 2015
A former employee at stole the source code of the Yandex Search Engine and its algorithms and tried to sell the for tens of thousands of euro. A former employee, Dmitry Korobov, of Russian search engine Yandex is accused of stealing the source code and algorithms implemented by the company. The man alleged attempted to sell […]
