surveillance

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2018
The US Global surveillance bill has been signed by President Trump

US Government missed a historic opportunity to reform a dangerous surveillance law that opens to a global surveillance, instead it has signed a version that makes it worse. The U.S. legal framework related to the domestic surveillance has been signed by President Trump one day after the Senate approved it with 65 votes against 34. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2018
Force 47 – The Vietnamese brigade tasked with fighting “wrongful views” spreading online

Force 47 is a brigade composed of 10,000 cyber warriors to fight online dissent in Vietnam, a new threat to freedom of speech in the country. Like many other Governments, also Vietnam is deploying a cyber army of 10000 cyber experts to fight online dissent in the country. The news was revealed by a top Vietnamese […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 29, 2017
Two Romanians charged with infecting US Capital Police cameras with ransomware early this year

Two Romanian people have been arrested and charged with hacking into US Capital Police cameras ahead of the inauguration of President Trump. Two Romanian people have been arrested and charged with hacking into control systems of the surveillance cameras for the Metropolitan Police Department in the US. The two suspects, Mihai Alexandru Isvanca, 25, and Eveline […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 05, 2017
German Government prepares Law for backdoors and hacking back

The German Government is preparing a law that will force hardware vendors to include a backdoor in their products and to allow its unit to hack back. The German Government is preparing a law that will force hardware vendors to include a backdoor in their products. The law aims to allow law enforcement agencies to […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 04, 2017
Google Unwanted Software Policy – It’s a fight against snooping apps

Google has expanded enforcement of Google’s Unwanted Software Policy waring Android developers to explicitly declare data collection behaviors. A few days ago, Google was caught collecting users’ location data even when location services were disabled, many privacy experts questioned the behavior of the tech giant. Google promptly admitted the practice and suspended it. Now Google made another move to […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2017
Terabytes of US military social media surveillance miserably left wide open in AWS S3 buckets

Three AWS S3 buckets containing dozen of terabytes resulting from surveillance on US social media were left wide open online. It has happened again, other three AWS S3 buckets containing dozen of terabytes resulting from surveillance on US social media were left wide open online. The misconfigured AWS S3 buckets contain social media posts and similar pages […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 30, 2017
iPhone Apps you granted camera access can secretly take photos and record video

A serious privacy issue in iPhone that could be exploited by iOS app developers to silently take your photos and record your live video by enabling cameras. Do you use an iPhone? If yes, there is probably something that you need to know about it! The Austrian developer and Google engineer, Felix Krause, has discovered a […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 30, 2017
New Dutch legal framework could cause Mozilla to take off the Dutch CA from its trust list.

Mozilla would remove the Dutch CA, the CA of the Staat de Nederlanden, from its trust list due to the new national legal framework. The Dutch Information and Security Services Act will come into force in January 2018 and one of the main effects of the new legal framework is that country’s certificate authority, CA of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 19, 2017
Wikileaks Spy File Russia – the surveillance apparatus implemented by firm Peter-Service

Wikileaks releases a new batch of documents that claim to detail the Russia mass surveillance apparatus implemented with the help of firm Peter-Service. Wikileaks has released a batch of documents, dubbed Spy File Russia, that detail the surveillance infrastructure implemented by Russia. The Kremlin’s surveillance apparatus allows the Russian agencies to spy online activities and […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 04, 2017
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg on Crypto weakening: Crypto War 2.0

Sheryl Sandberg on crypto weakening. The new Crypto war being started where government agencies are wanting a reduction in encryption strengths. DISCLAIMER: All views and facts explained in this article are the views of the author and does not in anyway related to the views of organization where the individual is employed. The article is […]