Digital ID

Pierluigi Paganini January 31, 2017
An IndyCar archive left unprotected online, details on 200k racing fans exposed

A notorious security expert has discovered online an open Rsync server hosting the personal details for at least 200,000 IndyCar racing fans. The notorious expert Chris Vickery has discovered an open Rsync server hosting the personal details for at least 200,000 racing fans. Further analysis revealed that data belongs to the archive of a defunct racing […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2017
TorWorld helps you to manage a Tor node, promising an upcoming Tor-as-a-Service

The TorWorld initiative aims to build a community area for those people that desire to set up either a Tor Relay or a Tor Exit node. We all recognize the importance of the Tor network, an important instrument to protect users’ anonymity and avoid censorship. Today I desire to present you an interesting initiative launched by Tor […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2017
Mozilla Internet Health Report calls for more security and privacy

The Mozilla foundation has published its first Internet Health Report to analyze the dangers of the Internet that we can consider as a global commodity. The Mozilla foundation has published its first Internet Health Report to analyze the dangers of the Internet that we can consider as a global commodity. The oligarchy of internet companies. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2017
Lavabit, the Snowden recommended encrypted email service, is back

Lavabit, the Snowden recommended encrypted email service, is back. Its CEO Ladar Levison announced new privacy-enhancing features. Do you remember Lavabit? It was the US Encrypted Email Service used by the popular whistleblower Edward Snowden. Lavabit was an encrypted webmail service founded in 2004 by Ladar Levison, it closed on August 8, 2013 after the US authorities ordered it to turn […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2017
ProtonMail announced that its Tor Hidden Service is online

The popular encrypted email provider ProtonMail has launched the Tor Hidden Service to provide further protection to its users. ProtonMail is the world’s largest encrypted email provider with over 2 million users worldwide. Its popularity exploded just after the US presidential election, its users include journalists, activists, businesses, and normal people that want to protect their […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 16, 2017
Weak passwords are still the root cause of data breaches

Key findings of a new study conducted by Keeper Security that analyzed 10 million hacked accounts from breached data dumps for the most popular passwords. Users’ bad habits are still one of the biggest problems for the IT industry, weak passwords and their reuse on multiple websites every day potentially expose a billion users to cyber […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 14, 2017
WhatsApp backdoor? What is wrong in the last claims?

A security issue can be used to intercept and read encrypted messages. Is this a WhatsApp backdoor? Which are potential risks? Is the popular messaging service Whatsapp affected by a backdoor? According to a blog post published by The Guardian, the application was affected by a vulnerability that could be exploited by attackers to intercept and read messages. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2017
Kaspersky fixing a serious problem with inspection digital certificates

Google hacker Tavis Ormandy discovered a serious flaw that affects the Kaspersky antivirus software and the way it manages inspection digital certificates. Experts from Kaspersky are solving a problem that disabled certificate validation for 400 million users. The problem was spotted by the notorious Google hacker Tavis Ormandy, the vulnerability affects the Kaspersky antivirus software […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2017
ZeroNet could be a solution against censorship and much more

ZeroNet is a new and revolutionary decentralized P2P internet that promise to avoid censorship and improve user privacy on the open web. ZeroNet is a decentralized and open source web platform. It’s based on BitTorrent(p2p) technology and BitCoin cryptography. These features ensure a decentralized censorship-resistant network. The contents published by users can never be deleted […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2017
Bitcoin passes above $1,000 for first time since 2013

The popular crypto-currency Bitcoin has jumped above the threshold of $1,000 for the first time since November 2013. Why? Did you invest in Bitcoin? Good news for you, the value of the crypto-currency has passed the threshold of $1,000 for the first time since November 2013. The digital currency peaked the value on 1 January and now […]