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Pierluigi Paganini November 12, 2015

Did FBI pay the Carnegie Mellon to hack Tor?

The Director of the Tor Project Roger Dingledine has accused the FBI of commissioning to the Carnegie Mellon boffins a study on methods to de-anonymize Tor users. The experts at the Tor Project have collected more information about the attack launched last year by Carnegie Mellon researchers on the popular anonymizing system. The Director of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 11, 2015

Drone regulation – Keeping the skies safe from commercial drones

My participation at the World Insight on CCTV discussing the Federal Aviation Administration regulation for the commercial drones. Q1 First of all, the Federal Aviation Administration gave a very compressed timeline. They’re asking a expert panel task force to make registration guideline recommendations by November 20 and these recommendations implemented by mid-December, so that 1 […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 10, 2015

Three men charged for the attack on the JPMorgan Chase

U.S. Authorities have charged other three men in huge cyber fraud targeting JPMorgan, and at least another nine financial institutions. The US authorities have charged three individuals over the hack of the JPMorgan Chase and other financial institutions. The data breach suffered by the JPMorgan Chase is considered the largest ever hacking case in financial history, data related nearly 76 million households […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 09, 2015

British NCA revealed to have hacking abilities, aka equipment interference

Documents published by the UK Government reveal that the UK’s National Crime Agency has the hacking capabilities, so called equipment interference. We have debated for a long time about hacking capabilities of principal law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Many documents leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the UK intelligence agency, the GCHQ has the […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 02, 2015

CISA Passes Senate, criticism about privacy and security

The CISA cyber security bill passes US Senate despite tech giants, privacy advocates, and civil liberties groups express their disappointment. The US Senate voted overwhelmingly to pass a version of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), a bill that has been debated for a long because it will authorize government pervasive monitoring of citizens. Many politicians, tech […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2015

The surveillance firm Hacking Team is back stronger than before

Motherboard has obtained a non-public email sent by the Hacking Team CEO to its customers that announce a new generation of hacking tools. Hacking Team is the popular surveillance company that suffered a serious data breach this year. More than 400 GB of its sensitive data were exfiltrated from the Italian company, including internal emails, zero-day exploits, surveillance […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 30, 2015

Second teen arrested in Connection with the TalkTalk breach

A few days after the arrest of 15-year-old in Northern Ireland, the British Police arrested a second in connection with the TalkTalk breach. There is a second arrest for the TalkTalk hack, the UK Police have arrested a second individual as part of the investigation into the recent data breach suffered by the company. Also in […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2015

The Jailbreaking procedure is now legal in the United States

The Copyright Office has granted DMCA exemptions for jailbreaking making the procedure legal in the United States in the next years. Jailbreaking an iOS mobile device it is possible to remove hardware restrictions implemented by the Apple’s operating system, Jailbreaking gives users root access to the iOS file system and manager, this allows them to download and […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 21, 2015

Apple confirms Judge unlock a new iPhone is not possible

Apple told a federal judge that it “would be impossible” to access data on a locked iPhone running one of the newer versions of the iOS operating system. Unlock this iPhone, I need access it for the investigation. It is probably one of the most common requests US law enforcement makes to Apple, but it […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 28, 2015

#OpNimr Anonymous targets Saudi websites to stop al-Nimr’s crucifixion

#OpNimr – Anonymous targets Saudi websites to protest against a death sentence of crucifixion to a 17-years old for alleged anti government activities. The popular collective Anonymous has launched the #OpNimr campaign against the Government of Saudi Arabia to protest against it continuous violation of human rights. Anonymous targets Saudi websites is in response to the death sentence handed […]