Pierluigi Paganini
September 27, 2014
The journalist Erich Möchel leaked photos reported alleged NSA monitoring stations in Vienna which are used by the Intelligence to spy on UN. Photos published by the journalist Erich Möchel in a blog post seems to confirm the presence of an NSA surveillance infrastructure, mentioned in the Snowden’s leaked documents “Vienna Annex”, in the attics of IZD Towers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 21, 2014
DoJ proposal is trying to legitimate FBI hacking operations against Internet users that make use of any kind of anonymizing technology. The FBI wants greater authority to hack overseas computers, according to a law professor. The Department of Justice (DoJ) is declaring war to online anonymity, its proposal to amend Rule 41 of the Federal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 15, 2014
Documents leaked by Snowden reveal the existence of the Treasure Map program run by FiveEyes Intelligence agencies to control the global network. Treasure Map is the name of the last program of intelligence revealed by documents leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden. Treasure Map is a program to map every device exposed on the Internet, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 26, 2014
ICREACH is the codename for the NSA’s Secret Google-Like Search Engine for Metadata Analysis disclosed by a new collection of documents leaked by Snowden. ICREACH is the name of a Google-like search engine designed by the National Security Agency (NSA) that provides metadata related to individuals living in US to more than two dozen US government agencies. The Intercept […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2014
Experts working at US and UK Intelligence agencies on monthly base leak Tor vulnerabilities to the developers at the Tor Project. The BBC reported that the executive director of the Tor Project revealed that both USÂ and UKÂ intelligence agencies share bugs anonymously with Tor developers. The circumstance is quite surprising considering that both NSA and GCHQ […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 15, 2014
Snowden revealed the existence of the MonsterMind system developed by the NSA to automatically mitigate and respond cyber attacks. In his last interview, Edward Snowden explained the risks related to use of automated attacks in response to the offensive against the US. Many experts identify with the term proactive defense the possibility to respond instantaneously […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 14, 2014
Edward Snowden revealed that NSA hacking elite team TAO accidentally caused Syria’s internet blackout in 2012 during a cyber espionage operation. Two years ago Syria suffered a huge Internet blackout, the entire country was disconnected from the Internet for three days. Security experts attributed the responsibility for the Internet blackout to the Syrian government that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 12, 2014
A security researcher claimed to have rooted the super secure Smartphone Blackphone in just five minutes. Is it true? What’s happened? Recently we read about the Blackphone, a super secure smartphone designed by SGP Technologies, a joint venture between Silent Circle and Spanish Geekphone, which is able to avoid surveillance of the NSA. The designer of Blackphone […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 05, 2014
China has excluded Symantec Corp and Kaspersky Lab from a list of approved antivirus software suppliers to limit the use of foreign technology. Cyber espionage is the first concern of government, China and US exchanged in the months reciprocal accusations on a series of hacking campaign conducted with the purpose of stealing sensitive information. According to the People’s Daily […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 01, 2014
A popular security researcher revealed that bad actors can tap into USB Devices to conduct attacks non detectable with known security defenses. Security experts demonstrated that USB devices can be used to compromise personal computers in a potential new type of attacks that evade all actual security protections. Karsten Nohl, chief scientist with Berlin’s SR Labs, discovered that […]
