Digital ID

Pierluigi Paganini April 15, 2016
Canadian law enforcement obtained BlackBerry Global encryption Key

A report published by the VICE News confirmed that the Canadian law enforcement obtained the BlackBerry encryption Key under the investigation Op Clemenza. BlackBerry is probably the first mobile vendor that implemented end-to-end encryption to protect communications of its users. Now an embarrassing report published by Vice News revealed that BlackBerry has shared a master Key to […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 14, 2016
Also the FBI Director Comey puts a tape over the webcam

During the Q&A session at Kenyon College last week, the FBI Director explained that he uses tape to mitigate the danger of cyber espionage. Privacy and security are top priorities for some security experts that are aware of threat actors’ capabilities, so I’m not surprised that the FBI Director James Comey uses to cover his laptop webcam […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 18, 2016
DB of the Kinoptic iOS app abandoned online with 198,000 records

Chris Vickery has discovered online the database of the Kinoptic iOS app, which was abandoned by developers, with details of over 198,000 users. The security researcher Chris Vickery has discovered a database belonging to an abandoned iOS app, the Kinoptic iOS app, that is exposing on the Internet personal details of over 198,000 users. The Kinoptic iOS app allowed […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2016
Fujitsu targets payment industry with PalmSecure Technology

Fujitsu has announced plans to launch its digital payment system PalmSecure Technology in Europe that is a security solution for biometric identification Fujitsu has announced plans to launch its digital payment system PalmSecure in Europe that is a security solution for biometric identification, which is offering the perfect user authentication for payment scenarios. It operates touchless, highly […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 10, 2016
Tracking users on the Tor Network through mouse movements

A security researcher has devised a new technique to track users by analyzing the mouse movements, even when surfing on the Tor network. While we surf on the Internet we leave an impressive amount of traces that could be used to track our profile and also reveal our identity even we are visiting resources in the darknet. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 09, 2016
Let’s Encrypt has already issued one Million certificates

The Electronic Frontier Foundation announced that the Let’s Encrypt Certificate Authority issued its millionth certificate. The open Certificate Authority (CA) Let’s Encrypt seems to be a success, the EFF is reaching its goals with the creation of this new certificate authority run by Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). IT giants like Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, Automattic and […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 23, 2016
Pay-by-Selfie – MasterCard is replacing the customer password with his selfie

MasterCard announced the extension of the ‘pay-by-selfie’ facial recognition technology to 14 countries this summer, this means no more passwords. The giant multinational financial services corporation MasterCard announced the extension of the ‘pay-by-selfie’ facial recognition technology to 14 countries this summer. In October Mastercard announced the creation of a new payment method based on the Identity Check […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2016
Tails 2.0 is out to protect your privacy and anonymity

Tails 2.0 is available for download, it implements new features, including security improvements. Speaking about privacy and operating system, we are obliged to mention the popular Debian-based distribution Tails “The Amnesiac Incognito Live System.” Now the version 2.0 is available online! Tails is a popular live operating system specifically designed to protect user privacy and […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2016
Apple can access your encrypted iMessages

Apple is not able to read messages sent between devices through iMessages but it is still able to access data in the backups. Let’s do a summary of previous events, following the Snowden‘ revelation of the global surveillance programs operated by the NSA the IT giants reacted defending their business and announcing the defense of the privacy of […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2016
Skype – IP will now be hidden by default to avoid attacks

Skype announced it will hide the user’s IP address, the new security feature is enabled by default in the latest update provided by the company. Skype now hides users’ IP addresses, a measure implemented to protect them against attacks from online trolls. Skype announced the security feature this week in a blog post, the feature is […]