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Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2013

Mac malware detected by Appelbaum at Oslo Freedom Forum

NEW MAC MALWARE HAS BEEN DISCOVERED BY JACOB APPELBAUM ON ATTENDEE COMPUTER AT OSLO FREEDOM FORUM WHERE IS DEBATED ALSO GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE. A new Mac Malware has been detected at recent Oslo Freedom Forum workshop, the concerning discovery has been made by the popular security expert Jacob Appelbaum. “Hundreds of the world’s most influential dissidents, innovators, journalists, philanthropists, and […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 10, 2013

Microsoft Skype accused of supporting the surveillance in China

In many occasion we have discussed about the consequences of monitoring activities on internet and communication channels operated by governments all over the world, in particular of the censorship and persecutions operated by authoritarian regimes. In discussion is the technological support often provide by Western IT company in the name of business that totally ignore […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 10, 2013

Stylometric analysis to track anonymous users in the underground

Law enforcement and intelligence agencies conscious of the high risks related to cyber threats have started massive monitoring campaign, everything must be controlled to avoid unpleasant surprises. The trend is shared by every governments of the planet, intelligence agencies are making great investments in term of money and resources to define new methods and to […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 08, 2013

SkypeHide system, steganography to secure communications on Skype

In this period there is an intense debate on the wiretapping of every communication channel, governments are increasing the monitoring of internet, of social network platforms and VOIP conversations in many cases with supports of the companies that provide those services. In a recent post I discussed on the control ordered by Indian Governments that […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 07, 2013

Iran and India, control and monitoring of networks

The news is circulating for days, the Iranian head of the national security forces , Esmail Ahmadi Moghadam, declared that low enforcement of the country is developing a software for “smart control” of social-networking sites, the authorities have understood that the control of the powerful platforms is more important filtering. Moghadam exposed the consideration made […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 30, 2012

Hacktivism and web monitoring in 2013 for Security Affairs

The year is ending and it’s very easy to read forecast for next year, experts are sure that we will assist to a sensible increase of state-sponsored attacks and to the raise of sophisticated malware, both cyber threats will exploit large scale channels such as mobile and social networks. The majority of forecast are focused […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 21, 2012

US develop exploitation methods for mobile devices while refuse UN treaty

Just one week ago a UN treaty was approved to update 24-year-old United Nations telecommunications rules. The agreement states that countries have the right to access international telecommunications services and control them to prevent cybercrimes such as spamming. The downside is that the UN treaty could open the doors to attitudes of censorship of governments […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 02, 2012

Russia deploys a massive surveillance network system

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 October 26, 2012

Cyber security landscape in Africa

Let me present you a very interesting study on cyber security landscape in Africa, conducted by IDG Connect, division of International Data Group (IDG), to which I gave my humble contribution. According the Economist data related to the first decade of this millennium shows that six of the world’s fastest growing economies were in sub-Saharan Africa. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2012

The Deep Web Part 1: Introduction to the Deep Web and how to wear clothes online!

Article published on The Malta Indipendent on October 14th 2012 Ron Kelson, Pierluigi Paganini, Fabian Martin, David Pace, Benjamin Gittins According to Cisco, by the end of this year, there will be more Internet-connected mobile devices than people on Earth! Not surprisingly there is a lot of interesting content being generated… According to Netcraft, there […]

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Mac malware detected by Appelbaum at Oslo Freedom Forum

Microsoft Skype accused of supporting the surveillance in China

Stylometric analysis to track anonymous users in the underground

SkypeHide system, steganography to secure communications on Skype

Iran and India, control and monitoring of networks

Hacktivism and web monitoring in 2013 for Security Affairs

US develop exploitation methods for mobile devices while refuse UN treaty

Russia deploys a massive surveillance network system

Cyber security landscape in Africa

The Deep Web Part 1: Introduction to the Deep Web and how to wear clothes online!

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