Digital ID

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2017
Privacy Guard – Let’s evaluate privacy risks caused by the apps installed on our device

Privacy Guard is an Android app that evaluates the risks of data privacy relying on the permissions requested by the apps installed on a device. Mobile devices collect a large volume of personal information that could be used for malicious purposes by adversaries. In order to increase the awareness of user towards the possibility of […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 14, 2017
Facebook and Instagram will not allow developers from scanning social media profiles for surveillance

Facebook company and Instagram will not allow developers scanning their social media profiles for surveillance activities. Facebook and it app Instagram have updated the terms and conditions to prevent developers from scanning social media profiles for surveillance activities. A report recently published revealed the US Department of Homeland Security used software to scan social media […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 11, 2017
WikiLeaks is working with software makers on Zero-Days included in the Vault7 dump

WikiLeaks announced is working with software makers on Zero-Days by sharing information on the hacking tools included in the Vault7 dump with them. WikiLeaks announced on Tuesday that it has obtained thousands of files allegedly originating from a high-security network of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The Wikileaks dump, called “Vault7,” exposed the hacking […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 09, 2017
Researchers discovered severe flaws in the Confide which is also used by White House staffers

Confide App, the secure messaging app used by staffers in the White House and on Capitol Hill is not as secure as the company claims. Confide is the secure messaging app used by President Donald Trump’s staffers for their secret communication. The official website of the application defines the encryption implemented by the mobile application […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2017
How to Browse The Internet Securely And Anonymously

These are some of the top methods you can use to browse the internet securely and anonymously. Even as the world becomes more aware of the imminent threat to our online privacy, few people understand the need to hide crucial information, such as IP addresses and private data streams, from entities such as our Internet […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 06, 2017
FCC gives full powers to US ISPs, they can sell users’ data without consent

The United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC)  announced the suspension of the privacy rules just before they came into effect. Someone considers the privacy the modern utopia, it is daily threatened by law enforcement and intelligence agencies and authoritarian regimes. Unfortunately, I have bad news for privacy defenders. On October 2016, the United States Federal […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 03, 2017
Trolling, Doxing & Cyberstalking: Cybercrime & The Law

Trolling, Doxing & Cyberstalking: Cybercrime & The Law. Cybercrime is one of the greatest threats facing US with implications for national security. According to the US Department of Justice (DOJ), “cybercrime is one of the greatest threats facing our country and has enormous implications for our national security, economic prosperity, and public safety. The range of […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 02, 2017
ReBreakCaptcha – How to breaking Google’s ReCaptcha v2 using Google’s APIs

The researcher East-Ee Security devised a proof of concept bypass of the Google’s reCaptcha V2 verification system dubbed ReBreakCaptcha. East-Ee Security proposed a proof of concept bypass of the Google’s reCaptcha V2 verification system dubbed ReBreakCaptcha. The PoC uses the Google web-based tools for its purpose. According to the author, ReBreakCaptcha “lets you easily bypass […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 02, 2017
Tor webmail provider Sigaint is unavailable at least since February 11

Dark net webmail provider For the third consecutive week, the popular Tor web email service SIGAINT is unavailable and the real cause is a mystery. SIGAINT is one of the largest web email services on the TOR network that is used to send messages preserving the user’s anonymity. For the third consecutive week, the popular email service is unavailable […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 01, 2017
The Google E2EMail is now fully community-driven open source project

Google has now announced that E2EMail is no more a Google product, instead, it has become a “fully community-driven open source project.” The End-to-End crypto library is a core component of several projects of the IT giant such as the E2EMail, a Chrome app that runs independent of the normal Gmail web interface and allows non-technical users to […]