Laws and regulations

Pierluigi Paganini February 07, 2016
Dyre crackdown, the biggest effort to date by Russian authorities against cybercrime

Russian authorities raided offices of a Russian film distribution and production company as part of an operation against the Dyre gang. Russian law enforcement and intelligence agencies in November raided offices of a Russian film distribution and production company as part of an operation against one of the world’s most notorious cybercrime ring. The authorities […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 06, 2016
The UN panel rules Julian Assange is in arbitrary detention

The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ruled that Julian Assange ’ forced permanence in the Ecuadorian embassy is an “arbitrary detention.” On Friday, the commission of the United Nation decided that Julian Assange is being illegally detained since his arrest in London over four years ago. Assange has been residing in the embassy since […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 06, 2016
US and UK mutual agreement on wiretap orders and search warrants

The US and UK authorities are working on a secret agreement that would allow a mutual access to data of their private companies. The imperative is “monitor everything,” for espionage, business, and homeland security. Now the British Government is  negotiating with the US Government the possibility to allow the British intelligence to tap into servers the US companies. The Washington […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 04, 2016
Safe Harbor replaced with Privacy Shield

The alleged Privacy Shield deal swaps the Safe Harbor arrangement that remained for over fifteen years before being smash down by a court in October United States and European administrators have pounded out a very late arrangement to permit data streams across the Atlantic to proceed without violating the law. “Surprisingly, the US has given […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 04, 2016
Former DoE worker was hacking to steal nuclear secrets and resell them

A former Department of Energy (DoE) employee, Charles Harvey Eccleston [62], has been charged with trying to steal and sell nuclear secrets to foreign governments. A former employee at the Department of Energy (DoE), Charles Harvey Eccleston [62], has pleaded guilty of cyber espionage. The man attempted to infect al least 80 colleagues at the […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 03, 2016
Europol, a new move against terrorism and money laundering

The Europol is increasing its efforts against terrorism, it has joined forces with EU to fight terrorist financing and money laundering. Since 1 January 2016, Europol has increased the level of integration among the nodes of the decentralised computer network of the European Union Member States’ Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs), the FIU.net. “FIU.NET is a decentralised computer network […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 02, 2016
On Friday, United Nation can decide that Assange is being illegally detained

On Friday the United Nation can decide that Assange is being illegally detained, in this case the UK and Sweden must immediately release him. The United Nations will reveal very soon the results of its investigation on the case of Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder. WikiLeaks published secret information and classified media from anonymous sources. Wikileaks already published […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 30, 2016
ISIS – The first man charged of cyber terrorism has been extradited to the US

Malaysia extradited a hacker charged by DoJ with stealing the personal data of US members and passing it to the ISIS. A former computer science student accused of supporting the ISIL terrorist group has arrived in the US to face charges. The former computer science student Ardit Ferizi is charged with hacking crimes and providing support to […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2016
Government Agencies probed over use of backdoored Juniper equipment

The U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is probing US Government Agencies over use of backdoored Juniper equipment. A number of US Government Agencies are concerned about the use of Juniper firewalls affected by the recently uncovered backdoor. The U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has sent letters to dozens of government agencies and departments asking […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2016
TorMail hack, FBI surgical operation, or dragnet surveillance?

In 2013 the FBI agents seized TorMail, now new information are emerging on the operations. Someone believes it was a surgical ops others accuse Feds of dragnet surveillance. In 2013 the FBI agents seized TorMail, at the time the most popular dark web email services. The US law enforcement agency seized the TorMail database during in concomitants of the […]