Digital ID

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2015
G20 World leaders were victims of accidentally privacy breach

G20 World leaders were victims of accidentally privacy breach, but Australian authorities decided to not inform victims due to low risk of exposure. The personal details of world leaders have been accidentally revealed by the organisers of the G20 summit, passport numbers and other details belonging to Obama, Xi Jinping, Putin, Merkel, Cameron, Modi and others were […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 24, 2015
Chinese CA issued bogus digital certificates for Google domains

Google security team has recently discovered and blocked fraudulent digital certificates issued for several Google domains by a Chinese CA. On March 20, Google security team has discovered and blocked fraudulent digital certificates issued for several Google domains. The investigation revealed that a Chinese certificate authority was using an intermediate CA, MCS Holdings, that issued the bogus […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2015
Microsoft discovered a bogus SSL digital certificate for Live that could be exploited for MITM attacks

Microsoft has blocked a bogus HTTPS digital certificate that was issued for one of Live Web addresses and could be exploited to run MITM attacks. In January, an unnamed man came into possession of the live.fi certificate after noticing that he was able to use [email protected] as an alias for his normal e-mail address. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2015
Yahoo launches its on-demand password feature

Yahoo announced its new on-demand password feature that lets users into login in their account with a code sent to their mobile phone. Yahoo has announced a new Password-Free login feature to let users access their account without the need for a password. When users will sign in his account, an on-demand password is sent to a […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2015
MPs Try to Ban Tor network for the Common Good, but Raise Concerns

Banning Tor network would bring a lot of public distress and would raise reactions, according to Governmental advisors and thus David Cameron is left without support on the matter of banning encryption. The MPs know really well that the Internet is a really magnificent service that can be used in an excellent manner by simple […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 13, 2015
Google privacy breach caused by a software defect

Expert at Cisco discovered a privacy breach caused by a software problem, which exposed personal information of users that opted for privacy setting. A software problem occurred at Google have exposed personal information of users that registered their website and had chosen to keep their profile private. The flaw affected the whois database that contains contact […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 12, 2015
ECIPS – SKYPE HOSTS ID THEFT FAKE ACCOUNTS

European Centre for Information Policy and Security (ECIPS) reported identity thefts to Skype, but the company refused to take down the fake account. Skype refused to take down a fake account after it was notified by the European Centre for Information Policy and Security, ECIPS that it was hosting two fake accounts in the name […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 07, 2015
Which are the principal threats for children online?

Kaspersky Lab experts carried out a study of the principal threats for children encountered in 2014 by users of the Parental Control module. The Internet is a dangerous place for Children, almost every teenager is always online through desktop PC and mobile device, resulting exposed to dangerous threats. The dangers are not negligible for children […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 05, 2015
Drones spying on cell phones for Advertizing campaigns

The Singapore-based company AdNear is using a fleet of commercial drones to determine users’ location and deliver hyper-targeted ads. Drones that spy on unaware people, a nightmare come true, apparently nothing new considering that it is a common practice of law enforcement and Intelligence agency. The bad news is that also a few advertising companies are also […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 05, 2015
Identity Fraud Cost US Consumers $16 billion in 2014, less than in 2013

The annual study published by Javelin Strategy & Research on identity fraud estimates that U.S. consumers actually suffered fewer losses than in the past. Last year we observed a significant number of data breaches that cause the exposure of a huge quantity of information in the criminal ecosystem. According to the 2015 Identity Fraud Study (“2015 IDENTITY FRAUD: […]