GCHQ

Pierluigi Paganini August 16, 2014
HACIENDA, GCHQ Port Scanning Program on a wide-scale

New revelation on British GCHQ confirms the existence of the HACIENDA Port Scanning Program which is targeting systems in 27 countries. In the last years the British GCHQ has conducted numerous hacking operation against systems in 27 countries, through a massive port scanning the intelligence agency was searching for vulnerability to exploit in cyber attacks. […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 15, 2014
GCHQ JTRIG Tools and Techniques for propaganda and internet deception

Edward Snowden leaked a top-secret GCHQ document which details the operations and the techniques used by JTRIG unit for propaganda and internet deception. The JTRIG unit of the British GCHQ intelligence agency has designed a collection of applications that were used to manipulate for internet deception and surveillance, including the modification of the results of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 04, 2014
Revealed the spy bases of GCHQ intelligence agency tapping undersea cables

A last revelation on the surveillance activities of British intelligence GCHQ confirms the existence of spy base tapping undersea cables in the Middle East. In the last year Edward Snowden has leaked many disconcerting documents for the surveillance activity conducted by the NSA and GCHQ intelligence agencies, the last revelation is related Britain covert spying programme, in particular the information on clandestine British base […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 16, 2014
Intelligence could exploit Whatsapp bug to track users location

A group of researchers discovered a vulnerability in WhatsApp “Location Share” feature which exposes user’s location to the attackers. Security issues related to WhatsApp application are not a novelty, so popular application are continuously targeted by hackers and security experts that search for vulnerabilities to exploit. Early 2014 experts at Praetorian have been conducting the Project Neptune to […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2014
How GCHQ and NSA spied on German citizens and global politics

GCHQ infiltrated German firms while NSA obtained a court order to spy on Germany and collected information about the chancellor in a special database. A new report published by Der Spiegel agency based on the document leaked by Edward Snowden has revealed that the National Security Agency (NSA) and the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) spied on private […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 28, 2014
Optic Nerve, GCHQ intercepted webcam images from millions of Yahoo users

The Guardian revealed that under the surveillance program Optic Nerve the GCHQ has intercepted webcam images from millions of Yahoo users around the world. A new collection of documents leaked by Edward Snowden has made public the program Optic Nerve, yet another surveillance operation operated by the intelligence agencies since 2008. The news was reported by The Guardian, Optic […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2014
Unclassified NSA memorandum provides further details on Snowden case

An unclassified NSA memorandum disclosed by the NBC News reveals Snowden allegedly managed to access classified documentation stealing coworker’s passwords. The hypothesis that Edward Snowden has operated using a simple web-crawler is very curious, how is it possible that a lonely consultant had access to a so huge collection of documents from NSA archives? Why Does […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 10, 2014
Snowden has leaked secret documents with a common web crawler

According an internal investigation Snowden has leaked the secret NSA’documents using a web crawler software designed to search, index and backup a website. The last assumption of the Snowden case is related to the way the whistleblower has collected the huge quantity of secret document from the National Security Agency (NSA). The leaked documents have shown […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 06, 2014
GCHQ ran DoS attack on chatrooms used by Anonymous and LulzSec

New slides leaked by Snowden, and published by NBC NEWS, reveal that GCHQ ran DoS attack on chatrooms used by Anonymous and LulzSec. The last revelation on the investigation conducted by NBC News on Snowden case reveals that British intelligence GCHQ ran denial-of-service attacks against Anonymous and LulzSec. Documents leaked by the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden reports the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 12, 2014
How the NSA Monitors Target Computers with Radar Wave Devices

If you desire to read the details on each of the above components and discover how NSA used it please read my article at Infosec Institute “How the NSA Monitors Target Computers with Radar Wave Devices” Introduction Germany’s Der Spiegel has published a couple of disturbing articles on the NSA surveillance activities. The media agency has focused its articles on […]