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SOLVED: the Italian mobile phone number exposed

Hi, i have written this old post about an italian online newspaper site, showing a subscription proposal personalized showing my mobile phone number… I was really puzzled about that. I got a lot of hints from a lot of people. Someone suggested to inform the “garante della privacy” (a sort of privacy agency). But i [...]

the Italian mobile phone number exposed

Hi to everybody! i have bought a nice nexus 7 8GB ram at the shining price of 169 Euro. I am really happy. It is a nice tablet, it has a camera really useful to catch photo of yourself while you are using it. Really: it has only a camera, so you you can’t easily [...]

who cares about it security ?

Really: it security it is only a stupid cost… IT security does not matter for the common users. IT security it is important for bankers and online sellers. But if so: tell me why all of you are reading this articles:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/04/10/researcher-says-hes-found-hackable-flaws-in-airplanes-navigation-systems/ http://www.askthepilot.com/hijacking-via-android/

For you relax, please read this too: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57579334/can-airplanes-be-hacked-with-an-android-app-researcher-claims-its-possible/

Please think again [...]

About transparency reports:

Hi, some considerations about corporate-transparency habits: today seems that the new mantra is about transparency and openess of the corporate policies. I have found some reports about the “law-enforcement policies” of some of the internet “big-guy”. However: i have found this kind of report for US-based enterprises but i was not able to find european [...]

total control …

today i have read some interesting articles:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20469486 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/22/bionic_mannequins_are_looking_at_you/ http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-19/bionic-mannequins-spy-on-shoppers-to-boost-luxury-sales.html

in brief: seems that saudi government is using IT technologies to control and monitor women movement, use of mannequin to track shoppers’ behaviour.

The first one is interesting because seems to aimed to monitor only women. So seems that their government is going [...]

linux security (Magic SysRq key)

IT security is important. In some application is really important. I will not make example or statement on this fact. I will speak on a possible way to disrupt services, and obviously how to avoid that these nasty things happens. Today a lot of linux users uses linux as desktop or for software development. In [...]

it security reloaded

Hi to everybody two links:

http://qz.com/#21606/how-hurricane-sandy-broke-the-internet/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/29/credit_report_data_breach_worries/

So seems that put your server farm in a really cool place under the the water flood level, maybe it is not a good idea. Put a a server farm in cooll places prone to blackout maybe it is not a really good idea.

And perform screen [...]

yet another IT security link: (bilingual)

The link is: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/16/santander_cookie_risk. Now please read this other link! I have no word to comment it. I have no way to very fact or assumption of the articles. I have no experience with the banks cited in the article, BUT, i can say that IT SECURITY IS A REALLY SERIOUS THING. If you make [...]

Sandia lab. for mobile networks security!

Hi, i have found some news about a tool called megadroid. This tool is coming from the famous Sandia Labs. This tool simulates about 400k android mobile terminal. So that you can verify the effect of mobile network partial disruption or, of other network accident.

The Sandia Labs news release is here.

I will [...]

revoked certificates: pay attention please!

Today i have read this “post” on an Adobe blog.

Briefly: some bad boys had violated some security levels and they where able to sign some applications.

The security boy had revoked the certificates. So please pay attention to any certificates related messages.

I strongly suggest to read the above link contents.