Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2017
The Cyber Division of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns the companies in the healthcare industry of FTP attacks. The Cyber Division of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns the healthcare industry that malicious actors are actively targeting File Transfer Protocol (FTP) servers of medical and dental facilities that allow anonymous […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 11, 2017
According to Privacy groups, the FBI search warrant used to hack into thousands of computers around the world in the PlayPen case was unconstitutional, Privacy groups are claiming the FBI hacking campaign against the Playpen child pornography community violated international law. According to the court documents, the FBI monitored the Playpen bulletin board Tor hidden service […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2017
CyberZeist claims that he hacked the FBI’s website exploiting a zero-day flaw in Plone, but the Plone security team declared the FBI hack is a hoax. Security Affairs was probably the first blog to spread the news of the alleged FBI hack. I was contacted by the notorious hacker CyberZeist, he is very popular in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2016
The US DoJ has charged the US contractor Harold Thomas Martin with theft of secret documents and highly classified government material. A couple of months ago, the FBI announced the arrest of an NSA contractor, Harold Thomas Martin III, over a massive secret data theft. The US DoJ has charged Harold Thomas Martin (51) with theft […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 06, 2016
A few hours after the Reuters reported the existence of a surveillance tools used by Yahoo for email massive scanning, the Tech giant denied it. This week the Reuters reported Yahoo reportedly scanned all of its users’ incoming emails with a secret software program that is designed to gather information for the US Government agencies. According to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 05, 2016
Yahoo may have allowed US government to search user emails by using a secret software program that scanned hundreds of millions of Mail accounts. Yahoo is still in trouble, this time the company has reportedly scanned all of its users’ incoming emails with a secret software program that is designed to gather information for the US Government […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2016
A researcher has demonstrated that the NAND mirroring technique was able to bypass the passcode retry limitations on the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone. The battle between the FBI and Apple for unlocking an iPhone 5C belonging to the San Bernardino shooter went in the headlines in the first part of the year. Apple refused to unlock the device, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 28, 2016
KimDotcom’ Megaupload, the popular website seized by feds 5 years ago and currently managed by the FBI is serving adult content. Sometimes really bizarre things happen and it is difficult to explain them. Is it possible that the FBI hosts a porn website? The first thing that I have is that the FBI might run […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 03, 2016
An FBI cyber security expert funneled sensitive information about the Bureau to the Chinese government, and now faces years in the jail. If it can happen to the FBI, it most likely is happening in the private industry. Yesterday, the FBI revealed that it was been the victim of insider espionage campaign by a Chinese-born electronics […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 02, 2016
Operation Pacifier is the massive hacking campaign against computers worldwide launched by the FBI in early 2015 to track criminals on the dark web. We are now aware that the FBI launched a massive hacking campaign against computers worldwide in early 2015 in the attempt to de-anonymize criminals visiting dark web child porn website The use of the NIT was […]
