Pierluigi Paganini
February 28, 2015
The giant Uber announced a data breach that resulted in unauthorized access to the driver partner license numbers of roughly 50,000 of its drivers. Are you a user of the Uber service? There is a bad news for you! Uber also enters the long list of companies who are victims of a data breach. On Friday, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2015
The Tor Project has announced a new version of Tor Browser Bundle, Tor version 4.0.4, that improves privacy and security features. The Tor Project has announced a new release of the Tor Browser Bundle, Tor Browser version 4.0.4, that improves privacy and security features implemented by the popular anonymizing software. The Tor Browser is used by Internet users […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 26, 2015
Mystery drones have flown over landmarks in central Paris for the second night, authorities still searching for the operators, it’s a mystery. The rapid diffusion of drones in both civil and military industries is rising a heated debate on privacy and security guaranteed by their technologies. Security experts fear that technologies that equip the UAVs could be abused […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 26, 2015
New secret documents leaked by Snowden reveal that CSE monitors millions of Canadian emails to Government, but privacy advocates criticized how CSE does it. Privacy advocates and Canadians are worried by the last bunch of document leaked by Edward Snowden related to the surveillance activities conducted by the Canadian Security Establishment (CSE). The national broadcaster Canadian […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 24, 2015
CVE-2015-0240 is a critical security flaw in Samba that resides in the smbd file server daemon and can be exploited by a malicious Samba client remotely. Linux administrators urge to update their systems due to the discovery of a critical vulnerability the open source Linux-and-Windows-compatibility software Samba. The vulnerability in Samba, coded as CVE-2015-0240, affects versions […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2015
Samsung smartTV send unencrypted voice recognition data and text information across the Internet without encrypt it, allowing hackers to capture them. A few days ago I was one of the first to publish the news about the Samsung privacy policy that reports smartTV are sending user voice data to third parties. “Samsung SmartTV transmits data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2015
A group of researchers has proposed a new technique dubbed PowerSpy to track mobile users’ location by analyzing data related to the power supply. A group of researchers at Stanford University and the Israeli defense company Rafael has discovered a way to track mobile devices by analyzing the power supply. The experts have proposed a technique […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2015
The Founder of Shodan John Matherly was revamping the SSH banner when discovered a large number of devices that share same SSH keys. The Founder of Shodan, John Matherly, has conducted in December 2014 a personal research discovering that more than 250,000 routers used in Spain and deployed by Telefonica de Espana, and thousands more used in other […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2015
Telephone DDoS attacks are on the rise, the criminal group known as “TNT” gang has released a new hardware tool in the underground ecosystem. The IntelCrawler cyber threat intelligence company has discovered a new advanced tool, dubbed ‘TNT Instant Up’, for Telephone Denial of Service attacks (TDoS). TDoS is a common practice in the criminal underground, it consists in flooding […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2015
DNA Cryptography can be defined as a hiding data in terms of DNA Sequence. Why DNA Cryptography and which are the principal benefits for its adoption? DNA Computing Information Security is very vital in today’s digital era of e-commerce and e-business. While 2014 was “The Year of Data Breach”, 2015 is off to a fast […]
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