Laws and regulations

Pierluigi Paganini June 02, 2015
Cyber-politics to debate on surveillance versus privacy

The Data “crown jewels” on global Cyber Risk: New scenarios of Cyber-politics to debate on surveillance versus privacy After two-year, stop-and-go legislative effort on the controversy of section 215 of the Patriot Act, the American Senate voted in plenary 77-to-17 on Sunday-night to move a House bill forward to object political conflict on surveillance vs. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 31, 2015
Popular Kim Dotcom’s domains, seized by the FBI, now in the hands of crooks

Two of the most popular domains of ever, that were seized by the FBI from Kim Dotcom three years ago, are now used for illegal activities. Former FBI web domains were used by crooks to serve porn or spread adware. Some of the sites that were abused by cyber criminals belong to a lot of domains that […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 29, 2015
MI5 to Google and Whatsapp, hand me your messages

The Conservatives are planning new laws to give MI5 the power to force IT giants to hand over encrypted messages from terror suspects. Potential global terrorism threats are persuading to Conservatives in UK to move the pieces of chess by law; in advance of the world’s biggest internet companies, such as Google, Apple and Facebook […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2015
IRRITANT HORN – NSA plan to Hijack Google Play Store to serve spyware

A new top-secret document leaked by Snowden revealed how the NSA and its allies planned to target Android platforms under the project IRRITANT HORN. New top-secret documents leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA and its allies of the Five Eyes group (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Australia) planned to hijack […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2015
No restrictions for the GCHQ. UK government rewrites its hacking law ‘quietly’

The UK Government is giving GCHQ, Intelligence services and law enforcement full hacking powers. People are scared by a law that gives GCHQ the immunity. New legislation exempting police, GCHQ and other officers from intelligence department from prosecution in a connection to mobile and computer hacking by the said government guns, has been passed by […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 12, 2015
Google Hangouts doesn’t use end-to-end encryption, law enforcement can access it

Google Hangouts doesn’t implement end-to-end encryption, when users message or talk with someone on Hangoutsis exposing to Government Wiretapping. Edward Snowden has revealed how the US intelligence spy on communication worldwide, despite the market is offering solutions that promise to be “NSA-surveillance proof” the majority of people still use messaging apps like iMessage or Google […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 07, 2015
Traditional crooks and violent offenders are turning to the cybercrime

According to data provided by British law enforcement, at least a 25 percent of organised criminals in the country is converting themselves to cybercrime. Cybercrime is becoming even more attractive to traditional crooks, including violent offenders. According to data provided by British law enforcement traditional crimes were continuing to fall while the number of online crimes […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 05, 2015
USBKill used to wipe clean criminal’s PCs

Criminals, activists, and whistleblowers have a new weapon dubbed USBKill in their arsenal to shut down laptops before they police start examining them. The best way to protect data from prying eyes is to destroy them, this is the thought of criminals when law enforcement is investigating on them. The best option for crooks it […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 30, 2015
Canadian Woman arrested for Spying through webcams

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has arrested a Canadian woman accused of remotely taking over victims’ PCs and spying on them using webcams. Canadian Federal police has arrested a woman last week that was accused to have hacked several computers to take over their webcams. The suspect is a 27-year-old woman that is the allegedly administrator […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2015
Romanian law enforcement dismantled a cyber criminal gang that has stolen over $15 million from banks

Romanian law enforcement dismantled a cyber criminal gang operating worldwide that has stolen over $15 million from banks and financial institutions. Romanian law enforcement has discovered and arrested 25 people who are suspected of being members of an international criminal crew who was specialized in banking hacking and cloning of payment cards. According to the Romanian […]