Pierluigi Paganini
September 20, 2017
The security researcher Chris Vickery discovered that Media giant Viacom left sensitive data and secret access key on unsecured Amazon AWS S3 bucket. Media giant Viacom left sensitive data and secret access key on unsecured Amazon AWS S3 bucket, a gift for hackers. Viacom controls Paramount Pictures, MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon. The huge trove of data store […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2017
About 400,000 Britons may have had their information stolen following the Equifax data breach, the news was reported by the UK division of the company. More details are emerging from the recent Equifax data breach that impacted approximately 143 million U.S. consumers. The attackers exploited the CVE-2017-5638 Apache Struts vulnerability that was fixed back in March, but the company […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2017
The notorious OurMine hacker crew has claimed responsibility for the breach of the popular video streaming service Vevo. Another clamorous data breach made the headlines again, this time the victim is the popular video streaming service Vevo that was hacked by the popular hacking group OurMine. Vevo is an American multinational video hosting service founded on December 8, 2009, as a joint […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2017
The cybersecurity expert Stuart Peck, Director of Cyber Security Strategy, ZeroDayLab, shared its view on the Equifax data breach. For those of you living under a rock this week, Equifax suffered a major breach in their security, which led to over 143 million records being stolen by attackers. The information held by Equifax is highly […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 10, 2017
Experts from security firm Kromtech discovered the Mexican VAT refund site MoneyBack exposed 400GB of sensitive information. Another huge data leak made the headlines, experts from security firm Kromtech discovered the Mexican VAT refund site MoneyBack exposed sensitive customer information online. because of a misconfigured database. Kromtech discovered the unsecured CouchDB during a routine security audit. The Mexican VAT refund […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 08, 2017
Equifax, one of the three major US consumer credit reporting agencies is the last victim of a data breach that may have affected upwards to 143 million Americans. According to a statement published by the Equifax, crooks exploited an unnamed U.S. website application vulnerability from mid-May to July to access sensitive data in its systems. “Equifax Inc. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 07, 2017
WikiLeaks has published a new batch of documents that details the Project Protego, a secret CIA Missile Control System Project for fighters Another week, another batch of CIA Vault7 leaks was published by Wikileaks. This time the documents provide details about the Project Protego, a CIA Secret Missile Control System. WikiLeaks published four secret documents from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 06, 2017
Experts reported that the AWS S3 storage containing subscriber data was left open by freelancers who handled web applications for the Time Warner Cable. A few days ago, researchers discovered of thousands of resumes of US Military and intel contractors left unsecured on an Amazon server, now roughly four million Time Warner Cable customers in the US were […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 04, 2017
The data breach notification website LeakBase reported to the colleagues at THN the Taringa data breach, over 28 Million users’ data exposed. Taringa, also known as ‘The Latin American Reddit’, is a popular social network used by netizens in Latin America to create and share thousands of posts every day on general interest topics. The data breach notification […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 04, 2017
Experts discovered thousands of files containing personal data on former US military, intelligence, and government workers exposed online for months. Researchers from cybersecurity company UpGuard have discovered thousands of files containing personal data on former US military, intelligence, and government workers have allegedly been exposed online for months. The data breach has been initially attributed to security […]
