Pierluigi Paganini
June 11, 2019
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) revealed that photos of travelers and license plates collected at a single U.S. border point have been stolen by hackers. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) revealed that photos of travelers and license plates collected at a single U.S. border point have been stolen as a result of a cyber attack. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 08, 2019
German intelligence agencies could hack servers, smartphones and any other devices under a draft law drawn up by the German Interior Ministry. The German Interior Ministry would allow the German domestic and foreign intelligence services are to hack into computers and smartphones under a draft law. According to the draft law, the country’s intelligence agencies […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2019
A new version of the popular Tor Browser was released by the Tor Project, it is Tor Browser 8.5.1 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The Tor Project has released Tor Browser 8.5.1 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android, the new version of the popular anonymizing browser. This release includes a temporary fix for a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2019
Google aims at eliminating the use of deceptive installation tactics among Chrome browser extensions introducing a new policy. Google announced a new policy for Chrome browser extensions to eliminate the use of deceptive installation tactics. The additional changes are part of the Project Strobe presented by Google in October 2018 in the aftermath of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 02, 2019
The popular privacy-focused email service ProtonMail has been accused of offering voluntarily real-time surveillance assistance to law enforcement. The popular privacy-focused email service ProtonMail made the headlines because it has been accused of supporting real-time surveillance carried out by law enforcement. On May 10, while Stephan Walder, a public prosecutor and head of the Cybercrime […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 30, 2019
Innovative Connecting is actually a Chinese company that secretly owns 10 VPN products with a total of 86 million installs under its belt. Recent research by the cybersecurity experts at VPNpro shows that the popular mobile VPN developer Innovative Connecting is actually a Chinese company that secretly owns 10 VPN products with a total of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 25, 2019
Snapchat internal staff has allegedly abused their role in the company to spy on Snapchat users using and internal tools and steal data. Snapchat is a multimedia messaging app that makes pictures, videos, and messages (snaps) available for a short time before they become inaccessible to their recipients. Initially, it was only allowing person-to-person photo sharing, but now […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 22, 2019
Google accidentally stored the passwords of its G Suite users in plain-text for 14 years allowing its employees to access them. The news is disconcerting, Google has accidentally stored the passwords of the G Suite users in plain-text for 14 years, this means that every employee in the company was able to access them. According […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 15, 2019
Twitter confirmed revealed that a bug in its iOS app it the root cause for an inadvertent collection of location data and sharing it with a third-party. A new story of a violation of the user’s privacy made the lines, Twitter revealed that due to a bug is collected and shared iOS location data with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2019
Facebook sues South Korean data analytics firm Rankwave over alleged data misuse and violation of social network’s rules. Facebook filed a lawsuit against Rankwave in a California State court in Silicon Valley to verify if the analytics firm is violating the rules of the social network giant. Facebook is asking the court to audit the […]
