Privacy – Security

Kazakhstan government begins intercepting all citizens’ HTTPS traffic

July 19, 2019 by Andrea Fortuna

Andrea Fortuna

Do you want to know the reason why? To “protect them from cyber threats”! Kazakhstan government has started intercepting all HTTPS internet traffic inside its borders, starting July 17. Governement instructed local ISPs to force their users into installing a government-issued certificate on all devices, and in every browser: it…

FaceApp privacy concerns: is it safe to use the app that make yourself look older?

July 19, 2019 by Andrea Fortuna

Andrea Fortuna

It’s the killer app of the last weeks, but FaceApp has been giving people the power to change their facial expressions, looks, and now age, since 2017. But at the same time, people have been giving FaceApp the power to use their pictures — and names — for any purpose…

Zoom RCE vulnerability also affects RingCentral and Zhumu

July 16, 2019 by Andrea Fortuna

Andrea Fortuna

I’ve already written something about Zoom vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-13576, CVE-2019-13586) in my WeeklyRoundup, but today the security researcher Karan Lyons, has published a new video confirming that the same RCE flaw is exploitable also in RingCentral and Zhumu (a chinese rebrand of Zoom) for macOS users. The Zoom conferencing app contained…

The Great Hack: a Netflix documentary about the Cambridge Analytica scandal

July 16, 2019 by Andrea Fortuna

Andrea Fortuna

The Great Hack covers the revelation that political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica secretly collected 87 million Facebook users’ data. The Great Hack starts with a light recap of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, enhanced with shimmering graphics that represent people’s data leaking from their phones and laptops. Then it jumps back…

Silent Mac update nukes dangerous webserver installed by Zoom

July 10, 2019 by Dan Goodin

Dan Goodin

Enlarge (credit: Kena Betancur/Getty Images) Apple said it has pushed a silent macOS update that removes the undocumented webserver that was installed by the Zoom conferencing app for Mac. The webserver accepts connections from any device connected to the same local network, a security researcher disclosed on Monday. The server…

Operation Soft Cell: threat actors are stealing years of call records from hacked telecommunication providers

July 9, 2019 by Andrea Fortuna

Andrea Fortuna

Security researchers from Cybereason have uncovered a massive espionage campaign involving the theft of call records from hacked cell network providers to conduct targeted surveillance on individuals of interest. The hackers have systematically broken in to more than 10 cell networks around the world to date over the past seven…

Tor transparent proxy on Linux: a simple implementation

June 19, 2019 by Andrea Fortuna

Andrea Fortuna

The starting idea comes from a colleague that asked me: “Is it possibile routing all system traffic thougth TOR, using it as a sort of VPN?”. Yes, It’s possible, using a specific feature of Tor. Tor has support for transparent proxy connections in addition to SOCKS connections.Using operating system’s packet…

SensorID: fingerprinting smartphones using data gathered from the accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer sensors

June 5, 2019 by Andrea Fortuna

Andrea Fortuna

A new fingerprinting technique, developed by a team of University of Cambridge, allows websites to uniquely identify a phone, based on data from the accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer sensors. Usually web browser provides a range of information to the website, including the name and version of software, screen size, fonts…

33 Linksys router models leak full historic record of every device ever connected

May 18, 2019 by Dan Goodin

Dan Goodin

(credit: US Navy) More than 20,000 Linksys wireless routers are regularly leaking full historic records of every device that has ever connected to them, including devices' unique identifiers, names, and the operating systems they use. The data can be used by snoops or hackers in either targeted or opportunistic attacks.…

Glenn Greenwald: Why privacy matters

April 26, 2019 by Andrea Fortuna

Andrea Fortuna

This TED Talk by Glenn Greenwald is really inspiring. Glenn Greenwald was one of the first reporters to see the Edward Snowden files, with their revelations about the United States’ extensive surveillance of private citizens. In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source…

Permanently delete files in Windows using built-in utilities

April 10, 2019 by Andrea Fortuna

Andrea Fortuna

A good wiping tool is available in all Windows systems since Windows 2000 Cipher.exe is a command line tool was originally released with Windows 2000 with the release of NTFS…

A Year Later, Cybercrime Groups Still Rampant on Facebook

April 8, 2019 by BrianKrebs

BrianKrebs

Almost exactly one year ago, KrebsOnSecurity reported that a mere two hours of searching revealed more than 100 Facebook groups with some 300,000 members openly advertising services to support all types of cybercrime, including spam, credit card fraud and identity theft. Facebook responded by deleting those groups. Last week, a…

To catch a drug thief, hospital secretly recorded births, women’s surgeries

April 3, 2019 by Beth Mole

Beth Mole

Enlarge / Not where you want a hidden camera. (credit: Getty | Brendan Hoffman) A California hospital faces a lawsuit from 81 women who allege they were secretly filmed by hidden cameras in labor and delivery operating rooms while undergoing extremely intimate procedures, including Caesarean births, sterilizations, and operations to…

Epic says its Game Store is not spying on you

March 15, 2019 by Kyle Orland

Kyle Orland

Enlarge / Despite what you may have read, Epic says this is not spyware. This week, certain corners of the gaming Internet have been abuzz with a bit of self-described "amateur analysis" suggesting some "pretty sketchy," spyware-like activity on the part of the Epic Game Store and its launcher software.…

Mozilla Firefox tweaks for enhanced privacy

February 27, 2019 by Andrea Fortuna

Andrea Fortuna

Mozilla Firefox allows a lot of configurations, the heaven for tweakers! Today i’d like to share my personal configurations, focused on privacy. This settings can be configured from about:config page, but i’ve also developed a small user.js file that can be installed on your Firefox profile. Configure from about:config Enter…

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