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Pierluigi Paganini August 27, 2015

GitHub Again Hit by a new DDoS attack

GitHubhit by another major DDoS attack to because Chinese developers have been forced by police to remove projects of tools to circumvent “Great Firewall.” The software collaboration site GitHub was hit by another DDoS on Tuesday morning that made the website unavailable to many users for several hours. The GitHub platform already suffered a major DDoS attack in March, in that […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 13, 2015

Hacking Team supported Italian Special Operations Group with BGP Routing Hijack

Documents leaked online after the Hacking Team hack revealed how the Italian firm supported the Italian Special Operations Group with BGP Routing Hijack. We are following day by day the evolution of the recent Hacking Team hack, the hackers posted online 400 GB of source code, company emails and documents, a treasure for hackers, cyber spies and […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 07, 2015

Hacking Team asks customers to stop operations and don’t use its malware

Following the clamorous Hacking Team hack the company asked all its customers to shut down all the operations and don’t use its solutions in this phase. Hacking Team has been hacked and its social media account hijacked, the news is shocking the IT security industry because privacy advocated have always accused the company to sell […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 06, 2015

Surveillance firm Hacking Team hacked [Updated]

Hacking Team, the Italian surveillance firm that develops spyware and hacking software has been hacked by attackers that exfiltrated some 400Gbs of data. The Italian security firm Hacking Team has allegedly been hacked, unknown attackers have exfiltrated some 400Gbs of data. The company has often been at the center of heated debate because of surveillance […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 23, 2015

What is the Dark Web and Why is it so popular?

What is the Dark Web? Unveiling the myth of the Dark Web and making sure that people understand its magnitude and its limitations. Let’s begin by explaining what the so called “Dark Web” actually is. This is a term used to describe a collection of websites that may be publicly visible, but they hide information […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 06, 2015

The Turkish Government banned YouTube, Facebook and Twitter

The Turkish Government has blocked the access to YouTube, Facebook and Twitter in the country over Istanbul prosecutor siege images. Once again, I’m writing about online censorship, once again the protagonist is the Turkish Government that this time has blocked the access to popular social media sites, including Twitter and YouTube. The ban follows a court ruling […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 28, 2015

Is China responsible for Massive DDoS Attack against GitHub?

The Chinese Government is suspected for the large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that hit the popular GitHub website. The popular coding website Github suffered a large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that lasted more than 24 hours starting from Thursday night. The attack exploited the redirection of users who were connecting to many other websites on the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2015

MPs Try to Ban Tor network for the Common Good, but Raise Concerns

Banning Tor network would bring a lot of public distress and would raise reactions, according to Governmental advisors and thus David Cameron is left without support on the matter of banning encryption. The MPs know really well that the Internet is a really magnificent service that can be used in an excellent manner by simple […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2015

Chinese Government runs a MITM attack against Microsoft Outlook

GreatFire revealed that the popular Microsoft Outlook emailing service was subjected to a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack in China. This time the popular Outlook email service was allegedly hacked by Chinese authorities. The Outlook email service was not reachable in China over the weekend and according the to experts at the GreatFire organization, Chinese Government run a man-in-the-middle […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2015

India blocks 32 Sites to fight the ISIS. Censorship will not stop the terrorism

India is asking to ISPs operating in the country to block a list of websites, including GitHub and Vimeo, to prevent the publication of the ISIS material. In this week we have discussed about the Chinese censorship China and the alleged block of Gmail service in the country, unfortunately the Government of Beijing isn’t the […]

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GitHub Again Hit by a new DDoS attack

Hacking Team supported Italian Special Operations Group with BGP Routing Hijack

Hacking Team asks customers to stop operations and don’t use its malware

Surveillance firm Hacking Team hacked [Updated]

What is the Dark Web and Why is it so popular?

The Turkish Government banned YouTube, Facebook and Twitter

Is China responsible for Massive DDoS Attack against GitHub?

MPs Try to Ban Tor network for the Common Good, but Raise Concerns

Chinese Government runs a MITM attack against Microsoft Outlook

India blocks 32 Sites to fight the ISIS. Censorship will not stop the terrorism

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