Pierluigi Paganini
May 14, 2021
Rapid7 disclosed that unauthorized third-party had access to source code and customer data as result of Codecov supply chain attack. Cyber security vendor Rapid7 reveals it was impacted by the Codecov software supply chain attack, attackers had access to data for part of its customers and a small subset of its source code repositories for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2021
CyberNews researchers found more than 29,000 unprotected databases worldwide that are still publicly accessible, leaving close to 19,000 terabytes of data exposed to anyone, including threat actors. Most organizations use databases to store sensitive information. This includes passwords, usernames, document scans, health records, bank account and credit card details, as well as other essential data, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 03, 2021
Experian API exposed credit scores of tens of millions of Americans due to a weakness with a partner website. Anyone was able to look up the credit score of tens of millions of Americans just by providing their name and mailing address. The issue was reported to KrebsOnSecurity by the independent security researcher Bill Demirkapi, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 27, 2021
Microsoft announced an improvement of its Defender antivirus that will leverage Intel’s Threat Detection Technology (TDT) to detect processes associated with crypto-miners. Microsoft announced that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, its commercial version of Windows 10 Defender antivirus, implements a new mechanism that leverages Intel’s Threat Detection Technology (TDT) to block cryptojacking malware using Cryptojacking malware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2021
Car insurance provider Geico has suffered a data breach, attackers have stolen the driver’s licenses for policyholders for several weeks. Geico, the second-largest auto insurer in the U.S., has suffered a data breach, threat actors exploited a now-fixed bug in their website to steal the driver’s licenses for policyholders for several weeks. Geico provided coverage for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 12, 2021
LinkedIn has formally denied that the recently disclosed data leak was caused by a security breach, data were obtained via web scraping. LinkedIn has issued a formal statement to deny that the recent leak that exposed the account details of more than 500 million of its registered users was caused by a security breach. A […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 11, 2021
An SQL database containing the personal data of 1.3 million Clubhouse users was leaked online for free, a few days after LinkedIn and Facebook suffered similar leaks. Researchers from Cyber News have discovered that the personal data of 1.3 million Clubhouse users was leaked online days after LinkedIn and Facebook also suffered data leaks. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 08, 2021
The maintainers of the PHP programming language confirmed that threat actors may have compromised a user database containing their passwords. The maintainers of the PHP programming language have provided an update regarding the security breach that took place on March 28. Unknown attackers hacked the official Git server of the PHP programming language and pushed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 06, 2021
Security researcher implemented a service to verify if your mobile number is included in the recent Facebook data leak. Security researcher Yaser Alosefer developed a new tool to help users to determine if their mobile numbers are included within the recent Facebook data leak that impacted 553 million users of the social networking giant. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 05, 2021
You can check if your personal information is included in the Facebook data leak by querying the data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. The news of the availability on a hacking forum of the personal information for 533,313,128 Facebook users made the headlines. The availability of the data was first reported by Alon Gal, […]
