Pierluigi Paganini
March 20, 2018
On Friday, Frost Bank announced that it has suffered a data breach that exposed check images, crooks could use them to forge checks. Frost Bank announced on Friday that it has suffered a data breach that exposed check images. The bank is a subsidiary of Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc., its staff discovered an unauthorized access to its […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2018
My new book, titled ‘Digging the Deep Web: Exploring the dark side of the web’ is available online, enjoy it. It’s a pleasure and an honor for me to announce the availability of my book “Digging the Deep Web: Exploring the dark side of the web“ Kindle Edition — Paper Copy What is the Deep Web and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2018
An unsecured Amazon S3 bucket, managed by a Walmart jewelry partner MBM Company Inc, left personal and contact information of 1.3 million customers exposed to the public internet. A new case of an Amazon S3 bucket left open online, this time personal data belonging to 1.3 million customers of Walmart jewelry partner MBM Company have been […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 16, 2018
News of the day is that the Mossack Fonseca law firm would shut down operations due to the reputational damage caused by the Panama Papers security breach. The Panama Papers is a huge trove of strictly confidential documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca that was leaked online on April 3, 2016. The Panama Leaks were acquired […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 05, 2018
RMH Franchise Holdings revealed on Friday afternoon that PoS systems at the Applebee âs restaurants were infected with a PoS malware. Another week another data breach, RMH Franchise Holdings revealed last week that PoS systems at the Applebeeâs restaurants were infected with malware. The PoS malware was used to collect names, payment card numbers, expiration dates, and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 02, 2018
The results of the forensic investigation on the massive Equifax hack revealed additional 2.4 Million identities were involved in the security incident. The massive Equifax hack made the headlines again, new revelations about the security breach emerge in the last hours. The credit bureau company announced this week it identified an additional 2.4 million American consumers affected by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 01, 2018
Tim Hortons restaurants across Canada have been hit by a computer malware that forced some locations to shut down over the past week. When dealing with cyber threats for the retail sector, Target in most prominent case of potential damages from a cyber attack. Today I want to report you the case of a malware-based […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2018
Cloud security firm RedLock discovered that hackers have compromised the Tesla cloud computing platform to mine cryptocurrency. Tesla has confirmed that hackers have compromised its cloud computing platform to mine cryptocurrency, after the incident was discovered by cloud security firm RedLock. The hackers have breached the Tesla cloud servers and have installed a crypto currency […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2018
Researchers discovered an Amazon S3 bucket contains personal information and scans of IDs of some 119,000 US and international citizens. It has happened again, researchers discovered another unsecured Amazon S3 bucket holding a huge trove of data that was exposed online. The Amazon S3 bucket contains personal information and scans of IDs of some 119,000 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 13, 2018
New documents provided by Equifax to senators revealed that the security breach suffered by the firm involved additional data for some customers. In 2017 Equifax confirmed it has suffered a massive data breach, cyber criminals stole sensitive personal records of 145 million belonging to US citizens and hundreds of thousands Canada and in the UK. Attackers exploited the CVE-2017-5638 Apache Struts […]
