Pierluigi Paganini
May 29, 2015
The Conservatives are planning new laws to give MI5 the power to force IT giants to hand over encrypted messages from terror suspects. Potential global terrorism threats are persuading to Conservatives in UK to move the pieces of chess by law; in advance of the world’s biggest internet companies, such as Google, Apple and Facebook […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 16, 2015
Security researchers at Security Explorations firm have published PoCs code for some of security issues in the Google App Engine. The Polish firm Security Explorations has published online the technical details and a proof-of-concept code for security flaws affecting the Google App Engine (GAE) for Java. “Security Explorations decided to release technical details as well as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2015
A Google study on Ad injection activities revealed that more than 5% of unique IPs visiting Google-owned websites had at least one ad injector installed. According to a new report published by Google 5.5% of unique daily IP addresses visiting google-owned websites have at least on ad injector installed, superfish.com is the most popular, being […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2015
You can find a manual on how to hack drones online, simply searching on Google. This can lead to severe problems and negative consequences. Drones have become truly popular, due to the multiple benefits that they offer. In the military, drones have been in use thanks to their versatility, their low cost and of course […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 02, 2015
A few hours after the presentation of the Google Password Alert extension a researcher already have developed two methods to bypass it. A few hours ago, Google released the Password Alert extension that was designed to warn users when they are submitting their Google credentials to fraudulent websites. “Here’s how it works for consumer accounts. Once you’ve […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 21, 2015
Google is improving its services, last decision it related to the Ads, the company takes a step towards by deployeng “HTTPS Everywhere”. Another good step, coming from google involving encryption. As you may remember Google started to encrypt back in 2008, when Gmail started to use HTTPS. Since 2008, Google has done a remarkable work […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2015
Google Launches Chrome 42 that deprecates the NPAPI (Netscape Plugin API)  due to the numerous problems it caused in the past. Google has released Chrome 42, a version that implements the important choice to exclude any plugin using the API called NPAPI (Netscape Plugin API) to extend browser functionalities. The Netscape Plugin API is dated back 1990 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 05, 2015
Gmail and Google Apps have noticed on Saturday that the Google Internet Authority G2 has become untrusted due to an expired digital certificate. On Saturday April 4, the Google Internet Certificate Authority G2 has become untrusted due to an expired digital certificate in the chain of trust. The Google Internet Authority G2 is an essential component of the Google PKI […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 01, 2015
A Russian researcher has discovered a critical vulnerability in YouTube that could have been exploited by a hacker to delete any video from the website. The Russian security researcher Kamil Hismatullin has discovered a critical flaw in YouTube that could be exploited by attackers to delete any video the popular video sharing service. The bug hunter is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 13, 2015
Expert at Cisco discovered a privacy breach caused by a software problem, which exposed personal information of users that opted for privacy setting. A software problem occurred at Google have exposed personal information of users that registered their website and had chosen to keep their profile private. The flaw affected the whois database that contains contact […]
