privacy

Pierluigi Paganini April 17, 2017
Microsoft biannual transparency report – US foreign intelligence surveillance requests more than doubled

Microsoft published the biannual transparency report – The number of US foreign intelligence surveillance requests more than doubled. Microsoft shared data included in the biannual transparency report, the IT giant received more than double what the company said it received under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during the preceding six months. Microsoft Corp announced […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 13, 2017
Hackers can steal PINs and Passwords capturing data from smartphone sensors

A group of researchers has demonstrated that attackers can steal PINs and Passwords capturing data from smartphone sensors. Modern mobile devices are full of sensors (i.e. GPS, Camera, microphone, accelerometer, magnetometer, proximity, gyroscope, pedometer, and NFC) that could be exploited by hackers to gather data about owner’s activities? A group of researchers from Newcastle University demonstrated that […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 19, 2017
Fappening 2.0 – More explicit pictures of celebrities leaked online

Fappening 2.0, Nude pictures of several celebrities have been leaked online, including Rose McGowan, Amanda Seyfried and Jillian Murray. Here we are speaking again of Fappening, new nude pictures of celebrities have been leaked online. In 2014 for the first time, several lots of private photographs of celebrities were leaked online, the phenomenon was dubbed […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2017
Privacy Guard – Let’s evaluate privacy risks caused by the apps installed on our device

Privacy Guard is an Android app that evaluates the risks of data privacy relying on the permissions requested by the apps installed on a device. Mobile devices collect a large volume of personal information that could be used for malicious purposes by adversaries. In order to increase the awareness of user towards the possibility of […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 12, 2017
Flaws in MAC address randomization implemented by vendors allow mobile tracking

Researchers devised a new attack method that can be leveraged to track mobile devices that rely on MAC address randomization mechanism. The MAC address is a unique and an hardcoded identifier assigned to a device’s network interface. This characteristic makes it an excellent tool for the tracking of the devices. A group of researchers from the U.S. Naval […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2017
How to Browse The Internet Securely And Anonymously

These are some of the top methods you can use to browse the internet securely and anonymously. Even as the world becomes more aware of the imminent threat to our online privacy, few people understand the need to hide crucial information, such as IP addresses and private data streams, from entities such as our Internet […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 06, 2017
FCC gives full powers to US ISPs, they can sell users’ data without consent

The United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC)  announced the suspension of the privacy rules just before they came into effect. Someone considers the privacy the modern utopia, it is daily threatened by law enforcement and intelligence agencies and authoritarian regimes. Unfortunately, I have bad news for privacy defenders. On October 2016, the United States Federal […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 01, 2017
The Google E2EMail is now fully community-driven open source project

Google has now announced that E2EMail is no more a Google product, instead, it has become a “fully community-driven open source project.” The End-to-End crypto library is a core component of several projects of the IT giant such as the E2EMail, a Chrome app that runs independent of the normal Gmail web interface and allows non-technical users to […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 18, 2017
German regulators ban the My Friend Cayla doll fearing it is surveillance device

German regulators have banned ‘My Friend Cayla,’ an internet-connected doll that can chat with our children, it can be abused for surveillance activities. German regulators have banned ‘My Friend Cayla,’ an internet-connected doll that can chat with our children. The authorities believe the device is a “spying device”. The Federal Network Agency is inviting parents to […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 09, 2017
5 Anti-Surveillance tools that can help you enhance online security and privacy

The current digital era is filled with all sorts of cyber dangers. The following tools will help you remain safe by enhancing your online security and privacy. There are many software tools that can help you preserve and protect your privacy online. For your benefit, I’ve compiled a list of the top 5 software tools […]