Pierluigi Paganini
October 06, 2015
Snowden told the BBC’s Panorama that the GCHQ has developed a hacking suite dubbed Smurf Suite, it can hack any mobile by sending an encrypted text message. There is no way to stop secret services spying on users’ Smartphones, this is the last revelation of the US whistleblower Edward Snowden. Snowden told the BBC’s Panorama that the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 04, 2015
The creator of the popular Adblock Extension made a shocking revelation, the company has been sold to an unknown buyer. Who is and which are the risks? The popular Adblock Extension has been sold to an unknown buyer, Michael Gundlach its creator made the shocking revelation. Michael Gundlach doesn’t provide further details on the sale, he kept secret the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 26, 2015
A new collection of GCHQ’s documents published by The Intercept reveals how the British Agency tried to track Web visits of âevery visible user on Internetâ A new revelation made by The Intercept confirms that the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has conducted  a massive online surveillance starting from the 2007. The documents accessed by The Intercept detailed an operation […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 13, 2015
The Telecommunications giant Vodafone denies âimproper behaviourâ after its employee accessed Natalie OâBrienâs phone records to discover its sources. Vodafone Australia has admitted it hacked a journalistâs phone records for espionage purpose. The company was trying to discover the sources for journalist’s stories, but Vodafone denies any âimproper behaviourâ. The journalist is Natalie OâBrien and in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 06, 2015
The US Justice Department issued guidelines for StingRay Surveillance devices, new rules define aim to ensure privacy protection and transparency. Do you know what is a StingRay? If you want further details give a look to a post I wrote for the Infosec Institute on the StingRay Technology: “StingRay is an IMSI-catcher (International Mobile Subscriber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 28, 2015
An agreement between the German intelligence agency BfV and the NSA allows the access to the XKeyscore platform to return of  data on German citizens. The German weekly Die Zeit disclosed documents that reveal how the German Intelligence did a deal with the NSA to get the access to the surveillance platform XKeyscore. Internal documents show that Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 28, 2015
Symantec revealed the existence of 49 new modules of the Regin espionage platform, a circumstance that suggests that its operators are still active. In November 2014, security experts at Symantec have uncovered the backdoor Regin, a highly advanced spying tool used in cyber espionage campaigns against governments and infrastructure operators. The Regin malware has been around […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 19, 2015
The US National Security Agency has utilized an exceptional, decades-old association with AT&T to snoop on Internet utilization, as per recently uncovered reports spilled by Edward Snowden. The archives gave by the previous NSA foreman and checked on by The New York Times and ProPublica portrayed a “profoundly synergistic” telecom titan that showed a “great […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 18, 2015
By Exploiting a flaw in the SS7 protocol hackers can access every conversation and text message mobile users send from everywhere in the world. Hackers can spy on every mobile phone user wherever it is. Channel Nine’s 60 Minutes has revealed the existence of a security hole in modern telecommunication systems that could be exploited by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 02, 2015
While Microsoft is offering for free it new Windows 10 OS, security experts argue that the cost for user privacy is much higher. Microsoft Windows 10 is the new operating system of the IT giant, the newborn already reached more than 14 million downloads in just two days. The experts who have already analyzed Windows 10 […]
