Pierluigi Paganini
March 13, 2015
Expert at Cisco discovered a privacy breach caused by a software problem, which exposed personal information of users that opted for privacy setting. A software problem occurred at Google have exposed personal information of users that registered their website and had chosen to keep their profile private. The flaw affected the whois database that contains contact […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 05, 2015
The Singapore-based company AdNear is using a fleet of commercial drones to determine users’ location and deliver hyper-targeted ads. Drones that spy on unaware people, a nightmare come true, apparently nothing new considering that it is a common practice of law enforcement and Intelligence agency. The bad news is that also a few advertising companies are also […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 02, 2015
A recent report about the privacy policy of Facebook has shed light to potential problems and disagreements with legal concerns in the EU. There is a recent report from Belgium focusing on the revised terms of use that have to do with Facebook. Due to its enormous popularity even apart from the fact that it’s […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2015
The Tor Project has announced a new version of Tor Browser Bundle, Tor version 4.0.4, that improves privacy and security features. The Tor Project has announced a new release of the Tor Browser Bundle, Tor Browser version 4.0.4, that improves privacy and security features implemented by the popular anonymizing software. The Tor Browser is used by Internet users […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 26, 2015
New secret documents leaked by Snowden reveal that CSE monitors millions of Canadian emails to Government, but privacy advocates criticized how CSE does it. Privacy advocates and Canadians are worried by the last bunch of document leaked by Edward Snowden related to the surveillance activities conducted by the Canadian Security Establishment (CSE). The national broadcaster Canadian […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 24, 2015
Experts at Facebook have discovered at least ten more applications using the Komodia library that allows Superfish adware traffic hijacking capabilities. Matt Richard security researcher from Facebook revealed that The Social Network has discovered at least ten more software applications using the Komodia library that allow Superfish adware traffic hijacking capabilities. Komodia installs a self-signed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2015
Lenovo, with the support of Microsoft and McAfee, has developed a removal tool to clean its laptop and delete the Superfish malware. Last week, the news of the presence of Superfish adware in the laptops sold by the Chinese Lenovo has captured the attention of the media. The presence of the Superfish malware exposes Lenovo users to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2015
Samsung smartTV send unencrypted voice recognition data and text information across the Internet without encrypt it, allowing hackers to capture them. A few days ago I was one of the first to publish the news about the Samsung privacy policy that reports smartTV are sending user voice data to third parties. “Samsung SmartTV transmits data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2015
The presence of the Superfish software in Lenovo laptops exposes the users to serious risks of hacking. The researcher Graham explained the reason. The news of the presence of Superfish adware in the laptops sold by the Chinese Lenovo has shocked the IT industry. The company has intentionally pre-installed a malware on laptops, but which are the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2015
A young hacker disclosed the details of an attack that by exploiting a couple of flaws in Facebook allowed him to delete any comment on the social network. The 19-year-old hacker Joe Balhis has discovered the way to delete any comment on Facebook by leveraging a session validation flaw and a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability. The expert highlighted that […]
