Pierluigi Paganini
November 11, 2012
Today a colleague alerted me on a news published on-line related to a patent obtained by Microsoft titled “CONTENT DISTRIBUTION REGULATION BY VIEWING USER” The patent could, according to some experts, a clear violation of privacy because it uses technology to gather information on user’s consumption of video content. The major concerns are related to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 24, 2012
Trend Micro has released the report “3Q 2012 SECURITY ROUNDUP -Android Under Siege: Popularity Comes at a Price” that presents a worrying trend for malware growth increased of 483%. The increment include cyber espionage malware and also destructive malicious agents targeting mainly the mobile world and in particular Google Android platform. Malware targeting Android platform increased […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 05, 2012
We have often discussed the fact that governments and intelligence agencies regularly use tools to spy on communications and navigation data of millions internet users. The market monitoring is a thriving market, where revenue opportunities are high and where demand is far outstripping supply. Malware, backdoors, appliances are just some of the solutions used to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 29, 2012
Article published on The Malta Indipendent by Ron Kelson – Vice Chair ICT Gozo Malta Project, Pierluigi Paganini – Director and CISO of Bit4ID, Italy and Benjamin Gittins – CTO Synaptic Laboratories Ltd. Mobile phones were once the status symbols of high-flying business executives. Today, mobile phones have become an essential part of our day-to-day lives. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 27, 2012
This time target of attacks of the Anonymous group is the Australian government, at least 10 websites were taken down to protest proposed changes to privacy laws. The government want to force national ISP to spy on users make available their information to law enforcement and security agencies. The Anonymous Australia collective in a mail […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 24, 2012
We daily assist to continuous violations to user’s privacy, mobile apps that expose its data, communication channels apparently secure that reveals law enforcement interferences or network devices suspected to contains a secret backdoor. The imperative is the monitoring of users, for commercial and national security purposes, we have read in many occasions of the development […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2012
Last week a saw a satellite image taken by Google Earth related to a mysterious vehicle, apparently an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), parked at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. “Skunk Works” LM’s Advanced Development Program Facility is where some of the most futuristic and secret projects are developed. The image was dated […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 24, 2012
The Deep Web (or Invisible web) is the set of information resources on the World Wide Web not reported by normal search engines. According several researches the principal search engines index only a small portion of the overall web content, the remaining part is unknown to the majority of web users. What do you […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 09, 2012
The NFC technology Near field communication (NFC) is a set of standards for Smartphones and similar devices to establish radio communication with each other by touching them together or bringing them into close proximity. The standard describes a radio technology that allows two devices to communicate at a short distance, no more than a few centimeters, allowing the exchange of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2012
The massive use of new technologies has often raised thorny questions about the privacy of network users. The most difficult issue to resolve in the necessary to reach a compromise to assure the users requirements of security and privacy. The debate generates heated arguments, confusion and sometimes decisions in apparent contrast. In Japan, to the multinational […]
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