Pierluigi Paganini
December 15, 2014
A newspaper discovers that bad actors are spying on cell phone communications of Norwegian politicians using the StingRay mobile surveillance equipment. The journalists of a daily newspaper in Norway have discovered a mobile phone surveillance equipment hidden around the Government and Parliamentary building and apparently there is no information on who has used it. Everyday we read about cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 13, 2014
Yesterday Pierluigi Paganini presented at the ISACA Roma & OWASP Italy conference the state of the art for the Internet of Things paradigm. Yesterday I presented at the ISACA Roma & OWASP Italy conference the state of the art for the Internet of Things paradigm. The presentation highlights the security and privacy issues for the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 28, 2014
Twitter announced app graph, it will now track every mobile app its users have Installed on their smartphones and tables. Privacy advocates arise. Twitter announced the implementation of the “app graph” function that will allow the company to provide “more personal Twitter experience” by serving targeted advertisements by serving targeted advertisements. This means that also Twitter, like […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 28, 2014
Verizon Wireless injects UIDH headers to every user’s Web request to track its web experience including visited websites and his habits. Verizon Wireless, the greatest US Telecom operator is tracking the internet traffic of its mobile users by adding a token to Web requests. The token is used by the company for advertising purpose, Verizon tracks the user’s habits, even if he had opted out […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2014
The Snappening, hundreds of thousands of unaware users have had their personal Snapchat photos and videos public disclosed by hackers. The Fappening is considered my mass media one of most interesting case of privacy violation, four archives containing a numerous celebrities nude photos have been released in the last weeks … and many experts sustain that the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 20, 2014
Google has announced that its new Android L will encrypt users’ data by default, the rise of the User Controlled Encryption paradigm. Google decided to make a further step to improve security of its customers enabling data encryption by default in the next version of Android OS. According to a Google spokesman, encryption on Android devices is already […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2014
A serious flaw vulnerability has been discovered in the default browser on a large number of Android devices that allows to bypass the Same Origin Policy. A critical flaw has been discovered in the Web browser installed by default on the majority of Android mobile devices, it has been estimated that nearly 70 percent of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 10, 2014
Researchers from the UNHcFREG (University of New Haven) is publishing on YouTube a series of videos to disclose vulnerabilities in a dozen Android apps. Experts at the University of New Haven’s Cyber Forensics Research and Education Group (UNHcFREG) have decided to disclose vulnerabilities in a dozen Android apps, including the popular mobile applications Instagram, Vine and OKCupid. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 09, 2014
De-Anonymize Google Users with new Timing Attack is possible, it is also possible identify Tor users if they’re logged in to Google while using Tor browser. De-anonymize Google users is the goal of different studies and a new research conducted by Andew Cantino, the vice president of engineering at Mavenlink, demonstrates that it is possible to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 08, 2014
Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that the company will improve the security of its solutions, including iCloud, starting from extension of 2FA mechanisms. The recent disclosure of hundreds celebrity pictures has raised the discussion on the level of security offered by the Apple iCloud stored service. To improve the security offered by the iCloud service, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook […]
