surveillance

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2015
Snowden reveals New Zealand surveillance Waihopai Base

A new collection of documents leaked by Edward Snowden shines light on shadowy New Zealand surveillance activities operated at the Waihopai Base. A new collection of documents leaked by Edward Snowden provides an interesting analysis of the relationship between the Five Eyes countries and the surveillance activities they managed. The documents published Saturday by the […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 26, 2015
Doubts about how CSE monitors Canadian emails to the Government

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 22, 2015
PowerSpy – How to spy on mobile users by monitoring the power supply

A group of researchers has proposed a new technique dubbed PowerSpy to track mobile users’ location by analyzing data related to the power supply. A group of researchers at Stanford University and the Israeli defense company Rafael has discovered a way to track mobile devices by analyzing the power supply. The experts have proposed a technique […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 30, 2015
Snowden revealed intelligence activities of Canadians spies

New documents leaked by Edward Snowden revealed the monitoring activities run by the Canadian Intelligence agency, the Communications Security Establishment Edward Snowden seems to be a bottomless pit, month after month his revelations are shocking the IT security community. Surveillance, hacking, cyber espionage, these are the main activities carried out by the NSA and its […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2015
Dotcom launches MegaChat for end-to-end encrypted audio and video communications

The entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has launched MegaChat, a new feature on Mega.nz that allows end-to-end encrypted audio and video communications. The Internet community is even more scared by continuous violation of the privacy for this reason IT community is looking new solutions that could protect users’ experience online from prying eyes. Government could be snooping in our […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2015
TURNIPSCHOOL – DIY NSA spying technology from the NSA Tao catalog

Researchers have presented the TURNIPSCHOOL project and other activities that replicate NSA surveillance implants with cheaper and off the shelf components. In December 2013, the popular cyber security expert Jacob Appelbaum, with the support of Der Spiegel news agency, disclosed the NSA’s catalog of surveillance. “Germany’s Der Spiegel has published another disturbing article on the NSA surveillance activities, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 18, 2015
New Snowden documents reveal the NSA Digital Arms Race

A new collection of document examined by Der Spiegel magazine reveals that the NSA is now preparing for future dominance in cyberspace. Snowden‘s revelations on mass surveillance by the NSA have shocked the IT industry, but experts say the worst is yet to come. The NSA is working to significantly evolve its methods in relation […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 13, 2015
British Prime Minister wants to ban Online Messaging Apps including WhatsApp

Prime Minister Cameron said that the UK would pursue banning encrypted messaging apps if the Intelligence was not given access to the communications. At this historical moment, governments are facing increasingly dangerous cyber threats, but their activities are hampered by the large diffusion of encryption mechanisms. Following the Snowden‘s revelations, several IT firms like Google and Apple are […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 30, 2014
Until 2012 the Intelligence failed to decrypt Tor network

A new collection of documents leaked by Snowden and disclosed by the Der Spiegel reveals the difficulties of Intelligence agencies to de-anonymize Tor users A new collection of NSA documents crawled by the Edward Snowden was leaked online during the weekend, the German news agency Der Spiegel has published online a dump of PDF files […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 29, 2014
Gmail service has been blocked in China

Gmail has been blocked in China, experts speculated that the Chinese Government used the China’s Great Firewall to interfere with the email service. Bad news for Chinese Gmail users, the popular email service offered by Google was blocked in China. Anti-censorship and privacy advocates speculated on filtering activity operated by the national Great Firewall system. According to the freedom […]