Digital ID

Pierluigi Paganini April 20, 2019
Hacker broke into super secure French Government’s Messaging App Tchap hours after release

A white hat hacker discovered how to break Tchap, a new secure messaging app launched by the French government for officials and politicians. The popular French white hat hacker Robert Baptiste (aka @fs0c131y) discovered how to break into Tchap, a new secure messaging app launched by the French government for encrypted communications between officials and […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 18, 2019
Facebook ‘unintentionally’ collected contacts from 1.5 Million email accounts without permission

Facebook made the headlines once again for alleged violations of the privacy of its users, this time collecting contacts from 1.5 Million email accounts without permission. New problems for Facebook, the company collected contacts from 1.5 Million email accounts without user’permission. We recently read about an embarrassing incident involving the social network giant that asked […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 12, 2019
VPN apps insecurely store session cookies in memory and log files

At least four VPN apps sold or made available to enterprise customers share security flaws, warns the Carnegie Mellon University CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC). Virtual private networks (VPNs) are affordable, easy to use, and a vital component in your system. Along with many security features, it ensure the user’s privacy and security. People use VPNs […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 25, 2019
Telegram allows users to delete any sent/received message from both sides with no time limit

Telegram development team implemented a new feature that allows users to delete any received message from the sender’s device. Telegram announced a new feature to improve user privacy, the development team implemented a functionality that allows users to delete any received message from the sender’s device. Two years ago, Telegram introduced the “unsend” feature that […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 21, 2019
Facebook passwords stored in plain text, hundreds of millions users affected

News problems for Facebook that admitted to have stored the passwords of hundreds of millions of users in plain text. Facebook revealed to have stored the passwords of hundreds of millions of users in plain text, including passwords of Facebook Lite, Facebook, and Instagram users. “As part of a routine security review in January, we […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 21, 2019
South Korea – 1,600 guests at 30 motels secretly live streamed

Four people from South Korea are accused of secretly live streaming, and selling videos made with spy-cam installed in 42 motel rooms at 30 motels in 10 cities in South Korea. According to the media, 1600 motel guests between November 24 and March 2 were spied by the indicted individuals that now face up to […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 13, 2019
Russia attempts to prevent Russian citizens from using ProtonMail

ProtonMail back after the Russian government has been attempting to prevent Russian citizens from sending messages to ProtonMail. ProtonMail is now running normally in Russia, the popular encrypted email service was blocked after students at a sports competition were using it to spread anti-regime propaganda. The Russian news aggregator service Habr reported that Russian telcos […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 05, 2019
Hundreds of Docker Hosts compromised in cryptojacking campaigns

Poorly protected Docker hosts exposed online continue to be a privileged target of crooks that abuse their computational resources in cryptojacking campaigns. Security experts have recently discovered hundreds of exposed Docker hosts that have been compromised by hackers exploiting the CVE-2019-5736 runc vulnerability in February. The flaw was discovered by the security researchers Adam Iwaniuk […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 04, 2019
German police storing bodycam footage on Amazon servers

Privacy advocates and cyber security experts raised concerns on the choice of German police to store bodycam footage, which may be used as evidence, on Amazon servers. The choice of the German police of storing bodycam footage on Amazon cloud storage has raised privacy and security concerns. The news was first reported by the Neue […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 28, 2019
CoinHive Cryptocurrency Mining Service will shut down on March 8, 2019

The popular in-browser cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive has announced that it will shut down on March 8, 2019. The service made the headlines across the years because it was used by crooks to abuse computational resources of the victims that were visiting compromised websites hosting the Coinhive script. Coinhive was initially launched as a legitimate […]