surveillance

Pierluigi Paganini July 13, 2013
Microsoft provided encrypted messages key and Skype calls access to NSA

The guardian issued new top secret documents gathered by Edward Snowden demonstrating the intense collaboration between Microsoft and US government. Edward Snowden has issued new top secret documents demonstrating the intense collaboration between Microsoft and US government, in particular the whistleblower revealed the support received by the NSA that obtained by the company the access to […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 29, 2013
Stellar Wind, Prism,EvilOlive,ShellTrumpet, US massive surveillance

Stellar Wind, Prism,EvilOlive, ShellTrumpet are the names of some of the US massive surveillance programs revealed recently by the press … The Guardian published new uncomfortable documents that revealed another surveillance program dubbed Stellar Wind that was started in 2001, after the tragic events of 9/11. According to the secret documents obtained by the Guardian, the program was authorized by President George W. […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 23, 2013
Operation Tempora, massive tapping program conducted by Britain’s GCHQ

Operation Tempora, is the name of GCHQ program to tap fibre-optic cables for secret access to communications. Operation Tempora, this is the name of last massive tapping program conducted by Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and revealed by The Guardian. Operation Tempora has been going on for at least 18 months, British intelligence adopted “intercept probes” […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 17, 2013
Palantir, private industries … Who helped NSA to build Prism?

Palantir Technologies is considered the principal company behind the design of software used for PRISM program, think of it as the work of a single company is truly an understatement. Palantir Technologies, this is the most popular company name referred when discussing those who have supported the U.S. Government in the development of massive surveillance […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 07, 2013
PRISM – US Top Secret massive surveillance program revealed

The top-secret PRISM project claims direct access to servers of major IT corporates including Google, Apple and Facebook. The recent news on the control of communications made ​​by the US Government through the PRISM program has literally left bewildered public opinion, everyone imagined it but when the Population has been confronted with the evidence remained shocked. […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 06, 2013
NSA collecting phone records of millions of US citizens daily

The U.S. NSA is collecting phone records of millions of Verizon Communications customers, according to a secret court order obtained by the Guardian. The U.S. NSA is collecting phone records of millions of customers Verizon, the second telephone company in the country. The shocking news has been revealed by ‘Guardian‘ whose journalists had access to a “Top […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2013
NetTraveler, new global cyber espionage campaign from Kaspersky

NetTraveler cyber espionage campaign, revealed by Kaspersky’s team, targeted over 350 high profile victims from 40 countries. NetTraveler, this is the name of a new global cyber espionage campaign revealed  by researchers at Kaspersky, the team of experts discovered an espionage activity against over 350 high profile victims from 40 countries. The name of the operation derives […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2013
ThinThread spy system secretly tested on New Zealand population

The author Tim Shorrock revealed that the US spy system ThinThread was tested on the unsuspecting population of New Zealand from 2000 to 2001 ThinThread is the name of a project that the National Security Agency conducted during the 1990s, the program was focused on sophisticated techniques for wiretapping and intelligence analysis. The program was discontinued after […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2013
Mac malware detected by Appelbaum at Oslo Freedom Forum

NEW MAC MALWARE HAS BEEN DISCOVERED BY JACOB APPELBAUM ON ATTENDEE COMPUTER AT OSLO FREEDOM FORUM WHERE IS DEBATED ALSO GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE. A new Mac Malware has been detected at recent Oslo Freedom Forum workshop, the concerning discovery has been made by the popular security expert Jacob Appelbaum. “Hundreds of the world’s most influential dissidents, innovators, journalists, philanthropists, and […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 16, 2012
Google Transparency report, let’s read it together

I consider the Government surveillance one of the most interesting security topic, the possibility legally and not to interfere with digital experience of its citizens. In many cases governments for various reasons, such as homeland security, spy on users tracking their operations on internet, intercept their communications and access to mail accounts. The phenomenon is […]