Pierluigi Paganini
January 01, 2017
Mozilla development team announced a new privacy protection mechanism that will come with Firefox 52, it aims to prevent websites from fingerprinting users. Mozilla announced the introduction of a new privacy protection mechanism to Firefox 52 that prevents websites from fingerprinting through system fonts. The technique is widely adopted by advertising companies via hidden scripts delivered with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 24, 2016
A Facebook hack could have been exploited to retrieve the private email address of any user with a serious impact on the privacy. A smart Facebook hack allowed to retrieve the private email address of any user. The issue was discovered by the hacker Tommy DeVoss who awarded with $5,000 under the Facebook Bug bounty program. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 05, 2016
The last update for the Uber app raises great concerns because it asks to track users’ location even when theyâve been dropped off and exited the program. The last update of the Uber App allows it to track the passengersâ locations even when they have been dropped off and the application is running in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2016
Unfortunately, many smartphones have never been designed with security in mind, which are the most secure smartphones? Enjoy it! In general, smartphones have never been designed with security in mind. The emphasis has always been on features and capabilities while security is usually relegated to the back burner. And, while no internet-connected device is 100% […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2016
The GeekedIn recruitment project scraped user data from GitHub and other similar websites, but data were inadvertently leaked online. The popular security expert Troy Hunt, who operates the data breach notification service the owner ‘Have I Been Pwned,’ recently received a 600 Mb MongoDB backup file containing data from a tech recruitment website called GeekedIn. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 14, 2016
Russia is going to ban Linkedin after a court ruling that found the professional social network  to be in violation of the country’s data protection laws. violation of the country’s data protection laws. On Thursday, a Moscow court has confirmed the decision to ban the professional social network LinkedIn in Russia. LinkedIn is violating the country’s data protection […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2016
Earlier this week, Donald Trump won a stunning election victory that will put him in charge of the worldâs most powerful mass surveillance infrastructure. Regardless of which side of the political spectrum you are on, Trumpâs control over the NSA is now an indisputable fact, and we think it is worth taking a closer look […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 31, 2016
AT&T has been data-mining and willingly sharing user phone data, through its âHemisphereâ Project, which is essentially a mass surveillance program. The NSA may be the well-known governmental entity notorious for conducting spy surveillance of its citizens and its massive record retention program, but the private sector is also capitalizing on such opportunities. AT&T, a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 20, 2016
A group of security experts discovered that the Microsoft Skype Messaging service exposes user keystrokes during a conversation. A group of researchers from the University of California Irvine (UCI) and two Italian Universities discovered that the popular Skype Messaging service expose user keystrokes during a call. The researchers have devised a method to record the acoustic emanations of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 05, 2016
The WiFox mobile app was designed as a huge container of network names and passwords for Wi-Fi airports networks worldwide. Do you travel a lot? Probably you have already read about WiFox, it is a legitimate Android/iOS mobile app that includes indications of thousands of airport Wi-Fi networks and their passwords. We have spoken several times about the […]
