Pierluigi Paganini
December 23, 2017
The Chinese authorities have sentenced a man to five-and-a-half years in prison for selling a VPN service without the authorization. China continues to intensify the monitoring of the cyberspace applying, the authorities always fight any services that could be used to bypass its censorship system known as the Great Firewall. The Great Firewall project already blocked access to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 11, 2015
Researchers uncovered the Great Cannon, a powerful hacking tool, used by the Chinese Government to run MITM attacks, that was used also against GitHub. The researchers from the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Toronto have uncovered a powerful weapon of the Chinese Government cyber arsenal, dubbed the Great Cannon, used to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 13, 2013
The use of technologies to support censorship is deplorable and condemnable but it must be considered that is a sad reality that has sustained the growth of a billionaire market. Many IT companies around the world are specialized in the providing of solutions used by authoritarian regimes to monitor internet use and persecute the opponents. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2012
Last year I wrote about a new powerful surveillance system that Russian government committed to private business to implement a complex monitoring system, officially to prevent terrorist attacks against Russia. The day is come, today the system has been deployed officially to prevent on-line pedophilia but it obvious that a similar system is also able […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 04, 2012
The word “Anonymous ” evokes the myth of the hacker in today’s society that defends freedom of expression and agrees with sensational cyber operations in the fight against censorship and government and industrial questionable policies. If Anonymous is perceived by future generations as an attractive ideology to follow, industry and government view with concern the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 08, 2012
As announced during last days Anonymous has launched a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) against several UK government websites. A massive recruiting campaign is started on social media, a call to arm to protest the extradition of U.K. citizens to the United States. The Operation named “Operation Trial At Home,” fight the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) that could […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2012
The Chinese government is famous for the high level of monitoring implemented on the internet and in the specific on all the new social media, that is the modern form of censorship, a model that several countries all over the world are taking for example. Nothing is changed, the government plans to continue censoring […]
