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Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2013
Google data breach, Company’s Surveillance Database hacked

Chinese hackers who breached Google in 2010 are responsible for the recent violation to Google Company’s Surveillance Database according officials revelations. Google data breach is reality and Google Company’s Surveillance Database has been violated by the same hackers who breached Google’network in 2010, the attackers have obtained the access to the company’s tracking system for […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 12, 2013
Apple decrypts seized iPhones for law enforcement

Apple can “bypass the security software” if it chooses, accoring ATF no law enforcement agency could unlock a defendant’s iPhone except Apple that has created a police waiting list because of high demand. Apple is considered an impregnable fortress, the main functions provided by the iOS operating system and related data are inaccessible to ill-intentioned but […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 10, 2013
NSA published a book on Intelligence through Google for its cyber spies

Google is a mine of information that could be used for various purposes, for this reason National Security Agency realized a book to help its spies uncover intelligence hiding on the web. Few days ago I published an interested article inspired by security expert Dancho Danchev and focused on the use of Google Dorks based tool […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 07, 2013
Hacking with new DIY Google Dorks based hacking tool

A new version of DIY Google Dorks based hacking tool has been released, it is an extremely useful tool for reconnaissance of targets. A Webroot blog post announced that a new version of DIY Google Dorks based hacking tool has been released in the wild and it could be used for mass website analysis, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2013
Indian pentester discovers a flaw in Google Drive

As usual I was reading the news on The Hacker New security portal when a post attracted my attention, another security issue related to an IT giant, Google. The Indian penetration tester Ansuman Samantaray discovered a security flaw in Google drive that exposes millions of Google users to threat of phishing attacks. Too bad that Google […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 16, 2012
Google Transparency report, let’s read it together

I consider the Government surveillance one of the most interesting security topic, the possibility legally and not to interfere with digital experience of its citizens. In many cases governments for various reasons, such as homeland security, spy on users tracking their operations on internet, intercept their communications and access to mail accounts. The phenomenon is […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 22, 2012
How much do you know on search engines? Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?

Article published on The Malta Indipendent on October 21th 2012 Ron Kelson, Pierluigi Paganini, Fabian Martin, David Pace, Benjamin Gittins Every day billions of people submit an unimaginable number of queries through Internet search engines.  These powerful instruments have profoundly changed the user’s perception of web content. Before  search engine popularity, “web portals”, like “DMOZ  Open […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 04, 2012
New cyber attacks have caused serious damage to Internet connection in Iran

High tension in the cyberspace, recently a series of attacks have hit oil companies and also banking and Iran was blamed for most of them. This time the scenario appears overturned, according a news published few hours ago a huge cyber attack have targeted Iranian infrastructure and communications companies, causing serious damages to Internet connection. […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2012
Elderwood project, who is behind Op. Aurora and ongoing attacks?

Today, I would like to discuss the real effects of a cyber attack. We have recently introduced the direct and indirect effects of several cyber espionage campaigns, such as Flame and Gauss, but we have never approached the problem from a future projection, examining the possible impacts of an incident many years after it. Symantec researchers published an analysis […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 09, 2012
Google Online Security against state-sponsored attacks

According to a post of Eric Grosse, VP of security engineering at Google, on Google Online Security blog the company is constantly monitoring the web for malicious activity on its systems, with particular attention to attacks made by third parties to illegally access into users’ accounts. Google declared that is ready to adopt measurements to mitigate […]