Pierluigi Paganini
December 29, 2014
Recent revelations have made it clear that SS7 breaches can occur, thanks to the vulnerabilities of such a set of protocols for telecom. Hackers can take advantage of these threats, like they have done in the past, as German researchers warn. The example of Ukraine and Russia highlights the danger crawling towards countries wishing to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 29, 2014
The National Security Agency (NSA) has released a collection of compliance reports that details failures and errors in compliance to US laws on surveillance. It’s Christmas time and the National Security Agency decided to post dozens of quarterly reports detailing cases where it potentially violated U.S. laws for monitoring of U.S. citizens and foreigners in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 19, 2014
German researchers have announced the discovery of news security flaws in SS7 protocol that could be exploited by an attacker to spy on private phone calls. A team of German researchers has discovered security flaws that be exploited by a threat actor to spy on private phone calls and intercept text messages on a large […]
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 14, 2014
Prime Minister Cameron announced that a newborn cyber unit composed by officials from GCHQ and NCA will fight online pedophiles even in the Deep Web. Prime Minister David Cameron has revealed that national intelligence agencies will join the efforts to track and arrest online abusers and pedophiles. The British Prime Minister announced that the British Intelligence […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 05, 2014
The Intercept revealed the Op AURORAGOLD run by the NSA to spy on hundreds of companies and organizations to hack cellphone networks worldwide. The Intercept has uncovered details of the operation AURORAGOLD, another massive surveillance program operated by the US Intelligence . The new program is ambitious, the NSA has developed AURORAGOLD with the intent to spy on every cellphone network in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2014
New documents leaked by Snowden reveal the crucial role of a Vodafone-owned company in wiretapping of undersea cables for massive surveillance. According to several secret documents leaked by Edward Snowden US and British Intelligence wiretap undersea cables used by telecommunication companies as part of their mass surveillance programs. In June, Snowden released documents that were published by The Register and that reveal the existence of a secret […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 18, 2014
WhatsApp implemented the encryption by default on Android OS with the collaboration of the Open Whisper company. Soon it will be extended to other platforms. Many time security community has discussed about security of the popular messaging application WhatsApp, early 2014 experts at Praetorian discovered different security issues in the way WhatApp implements SSL, the principal one is the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 14, 2014
The WSJ revealed that the US authorities coordinated by the Department of Justice has been using airplanes to collect Americans’ cell phone data. A new secret U.S. surveillance program was disclosed in a Wall Street Journalâs report, the post published by the popular media agency reveals the use of bogus cell phone towers installed in airplanes […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2014
A report confirms that China is collecting private data of more that 100 million Apple iCloud users resident in the country with a man-in-the-middle attack. The Chinese Government has launched a new hacking campaign that is targeting Apple iCloud users in the country, the news was reported by the censorship watchdog GreatFire.org is a blog post. […]
