Pierluigi Paganini
July 13, 2016
The National Security Agency (NSA) has reportedly turned its focus on Tor and Linux users, having recently shown a keen interest in these users’ online activities. The NSA has gone as far as calling users of products such as The Amnesic Incognito Live System (Tails) and Tor as extremists. Readers of Linux Journal were also […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 06, 2016
Report on wiretaps in 2015 suggests Americans are using less encryption to hide their activities online, is it really true. Last week, a wiretap report from 2015 surfaced on the United States Courts website that suggests Americans are using less encryption to hide their activities online but the report may not tell the whole story. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2016
Russian cyber spies belonging to the Pawn Storm APT group have targeted a significant number of Google accounts belonging to individuals worldwide. The Pawn Storm APT group is once again in the headlines, this time the hackers targeted a significant number of Google accounts belonging to individuals in Russia, former Soviet Union countries, the United States, Europe. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2016
The government of Berlin approved new measures to rein in the activities of BND agency after its scandalous support to NSA surveillance activity. In April 2016, the German government replaced the head of the external intelligence service after a barrage of criticism over the support offered by the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) to the NSA in spying […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 28, 2016
According to The Intercept, FBI has at its disposal “hundreds of millions of dollars” for developing technology to use in its investigations. The FBI has at its disposal “hundreds of millions of dollars” for developing technology to use in both national security and domestic law enforcement investigations, including surveillance. But, the FBI won’t release that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 23, 2016
According to the experts from FireEye attacks from China against the US started declining in mid-2014 and has continued to decrease, why? Earlier this week, FireEye released a report showing a significant decline in cyber-attacks originating from China. According to the report, the attacks started declining in mid-2014 and has continued. According to FireEye, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 22, 2016
A coalition of tech groups asked the Congress to roll back changes to Rule 41 that allowed law enforcement to do mass hacking. Congress should block the changes to the rules for the regulation of US law enforcement investigations. The rules allow law enforcement agencies hacking in computers worldwide for its investigation. In April, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 20, 2016
Earlier June the Tor Project announced a hardened version of the popular Tor Browser that implements a feature dubbed Selfrando to defeat exploits. Early June the Tor Project announced a hardened version of the popular Tor Browser, the Tor Browser 6.5a1-hardened. “A new hardened Tor Browser release is available. It can be found in the 6.5a1-hardened […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2016
A hacker using the pseudonymous Guccifer 2.0, claimed responsibility for the cyber-attack on the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Yesterday, we blogged about the cyber-attack on the Democratic National Committee (DNC) that led a dossier of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump. According to the US-based cyber security company CrowdStrike, two sophisticated Russian espionage groups, COZY […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2016
The Democratic National Committee’s network was hacked by Russian hackers belonging to nation-state groups that have had access to the group’s communications and databases. Yesterday, the security research firm CrowdStrike reported on a cyber breach of the Democratic National Committee (DNS). CrowdStrike’s incident response time discovered not one, but two hacking groups that it considers “some […]
