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Pierluigi Paganini March 02, 2015

Hacking the hackers : A cyber resilience approach

A cyber resilience approach: the need to become cyber resilient is very essential because eliminating risks completely is impossible. Hacking emerged as a geeky, tech-oriented culture that was a little mischievous, but ultimately was about programming and finding faults or bugs in the code. It has evolved over time to become a criminal activity. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 02, 2015

Facebook Policies and New Terms of Use Have Been under Scrutiny in Europe

A recent report about the privacy policy of Facebook has shed light to potential problems and disagreements with legal concerns in the EU. There is a recent report from Belgium focusing on the revised terms of use that have to do with Facebook. Due to its enormous popularity even apart from the fact that it’s […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 01, 2015

Shadow Cloud Services a serious risk for Government Networks

Cloud Security Alliance revealed that shadow cloud service used by employees and unmanaged by IT can pose a major security problem for organizations. Last month, Cloud Security Alliance found out that shadow cloud service used by employees and unmanaged by IT can pose a major security problem for organizations. Based on the survey, mostly half […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 28, 2015

Twitter is tracking phone numbers to prevent trolls and abuses

Twitter announced that it is starting to track phone numbers of users as a measure to prevent abuses like the creation of new bogus accounts. A few weeks ago, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo explained the difficulties the company is facing to prevent the abuse of its platform. Costolo revealed to be embarrassed for the company’s […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 28, 2015

The transportation giant Uber discloses a Data Breach

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

Tor Browser 4_0_4 Release improves security and privacy

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

Mysterious sightings of drones in the sky of Paris

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

Doubts about how CSE monitors Canadian emails to the Government

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

A critical remote execution flaw spotted in Samba Win-Linux interop code

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 smartTVs don’t encrypt voice and text data

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 […]

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Hacking the hackers : A cyber resilience approach

Facebook Policies and New Terms of Use Have Been under Scrutiny in Europe

Shadow Cloud Services a serious risk for Government Networks

Twitter is tracking phone numbers to prevent trolls and abuses

The transportation giant Uber discloses a Data Breach

Tor Browser 4_0_4 Release improves security and privacy

Mysterious sightings of drones in the sky of Paris

Doubts about how CSE monitors Canadian emails to the Government

A critical remote execution flaw spotted in Samba Win-Linux interop code

Samsung smartTVs don’t encrypt voice and text data

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