Pierluigi Paganini
April 07, 2016
The government authority who oversees the export of “dual use” technologies revoked the Hacking Team ’s global export license. On July 2015, the Italian surveillance company Hacking Team suffered one of the worst data breaches in the history. Unknown attackers have exfiltrated some 400Gbs of data, including internal emails, exploit source code and invoices. A few months […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 20, 2016
A redaction error in court-ordered release of the Lavabit case files confirmed that Edward Snowden was the target of the FBI. Lavabit was an encrypted webmail service founded in 2004 by Ladar Levison, it closed on August 8, 2013 after the US authorities ordered it to turn over its Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) private keys to order government surveillance activities. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 17, 2016
ProtonMail, the world’s largest privacy-focused and encrypted email provider, announced today that the service is leaving beta. ProtonMail, the world’s largest privacy-focused and encrypted email provider, announced today that the service is leaving beta and will be allowing open registrations for the first time in nearly two years. For the past couple of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 28, 2016
The German Interior Ministry has approved the use of a federal Trojan developed by the German Federal Criminal Police. The German Interior Ministry has approved the use a spyware developed by the German Federal Criminal Police, aka the ‘federal Trojan’ or Bundestrojaner, for the investigative purpose. “Soon the state could re-enter the computer of suspicious […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 13, 2016
The British Intelligence Agency GCHQ has a license to hack computers and devices, the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) ruled. This means that the UK Government is giving full power to its intelligence agency to spy on Britons as well as people living abroad. The verdict was issued on Friday after Privacy International and seven ISPs […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2016
The FBI requests $38 Million to counter the threat of Going Dark, in particular asking more economic resources to break encryption when needed. The FBI Director James Comey has highlighted in different occasions the difficulties faced by law enforcement when dealing with encryption during their investigations. Now, the FBI is making its request for budget […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 06, 2016
The US and UK authorities are working on a secret agreement that would allow a mutual access to data of their private companies. The imperative is “monitor everything,” for espionage, business, and homeland security. Now the British Government is negotiating with the US Government the possibility to allow the British intelligence to tap into servers the US companies. The Washington […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 04, 2016
Afaaq Electronic Foundation (AEF) is conducting a training campaign to spread awareness on anti-surveillance software among ISIS members. The members of the Islamic state have a strong propensity for the technology is a reality, and this is confirmed by the news that I am going to share with you. The ISIS always instructs its militants […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 22, 2016
Experts from the security firm SEC Consult discovered a backdoor in the AMX equipment being used by US President Obama and the US Military. AMX is a company that supplies communications systems and building control equipment to the US military, the White House and many other security organizations in the States. The particularity of these systems is the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2016
An investigation conducted by The Motherboard demonstrates that is quite easy to buy Surveillance Equipment avoiding export restrictions. Recently I wrote a post titled “Cellphone Surveillance: The Secret Arsenal” that includes interesting information about the principal cellphone surveillance equipment available on the market. This equipment is reserved in the majority of cases for a military or law enforcement usage, but […]
