Pierluigi Paganini
August 08, 2017
The CDT urged US federal trade authorities to investigate VPN provider AnchorFree for deceptive and unfair trade practices. The digital rights advocacy group Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) urged US federal trade authorities to investigate VPN provider AnchorFree for deceptive trade practices. AnchorFree provides the Hotspot Shield VPN app claiming it allows to protect users from online tracking, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 21, 2017
ProtonMail announced ProtonVPN is now available to the general public. ProtonVPN is officially out of beta. You can now directly get ProtonVPN by visiting https://protonvpn.com After more than 1 year of development, and four months of beta testing by over 10â000 members of the ProtonMail community, weâre finally making ProtonVPN available to everyone. And we […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 07, 2017
Browsers are constantly targeted by hackers. Here are 4 ways you can make your browser hacker-proof. Use them to stay secure on the web. Browsers have long been a hot target of numerous hacking-related incidents. They are the primary source of hacking incidents as we search, share, watch and download files from browsers. Moreover, various […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2016
Cisco has started releasing patches for its ASA software to address the Equation Group’s EXTRABACON exploit included in the NSA data dump leaked online. Security firms and IT giants are analyzing the huge archive leaked by the Shadow Brokers crew after the hack of the NSA-linked Equation Group. We reported that some of the exploits […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 20, 2016
Researchers tested the BENIGNCERTAIN tool included in the NSA data dump that allows attackers to extract VPN passwords from certain Cisco devices. Following the disclosure of the NSA dump, IT vendors Cisco and Fortinet issued security patches to fix the flaws exploited by the Equation Group in their products. Now, security researchers have uncovered another […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2016
A security advisory recently released by CISCO announce that three Cisco wireless kits are affected by a critical bug, but no fix is available at the moment. SOHO devices are among most targeted network components in the wild, they are often poorly protected or not properly configured exposing users to serious risks. In these cases, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 27, 2016
The U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is probing US Government Agencies over use of backdoored Juniper equipment. A number of US Government Agencies are concerned about the use of Juniper firewalls affected by the recently uncovered backdoor. The U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has sent letters to dozens of government agencies and departments asking […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 18, 2015
An operating system running on firewalls sold by Juniper Networks contains unauthorized code that could be exploited to decrypt traffic sent through virtual private networks. An âunauthorized codeâ was discovered in the operating system for Juniper NetScreen firewalls. The company admitted the presence of the âunauthorized codeâ that could allow an attacker to decrypt VPN traffic. [âunauthorized codeâ] âcould allow […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 27, 2015
Security experts at the VPN provider Perfect Privacy discovered a new vulnerability dubbed Port Fail that could be exploited to de-anonymize VPN users. Security experts at the VPN provider Perfect Privacy discovered a new vulnerability dubbed Port Fail which affect all VPN (Virtual Private Network) protocols and operating systems. An attacker can exploit the Port Fail flaw […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 24, 2015
Now that it is known a critical flaw in the Diffie-Hellman key-exchange protocol was exploited by the NSA to break the internet encryption, how to stop it? Recently a group of researchers has revealed how the NSA has cracked HTTPS, SSH, and VPNs rely on the Diffie-Hellman encryption by exploiting a wrong implementation of the cryptographic algorithm. The […]
