Pierluigi Paganini
April 14, 2019
Bad news for users of the Microsoft Outlook email service, hackers have compromised the Microsoft Support Agent to access their email accounts. Earlier this year, hackers breached Microsoft’s customer support portal and gained access to some email accounts registered with the Microsoft’s Outlook service. Microsoft notified some of its users the security breach, it confirmed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 13, 2019
Hackers publish personal data on thousands of US police officers and federal agents Media outlet Techcrunch reported that a hacker group has breached several FBI-affiliated websites and leaked the stolen info online. A hacker group claims to have hacked dozens of websites affiliated with the FBI and leaked online dozens of files containing the personal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 13, 2019
The hacker that hacked and defaced Matrix.org decided to disclose the security issues discovered during the attack and offers advice. This week, the hacker behind the hack of Matrix.org decided to disclose the vulnerabilities discovered during the attack. Matrix is an open network for secure, decentralized real-time communication that is also used for instant messaging, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 10, 2019
Minnesota Department of Human Services announced to have suffered a data breach that may have exposed the personal information of about 11,000 people. Minnesota Department of Human Services suffered a data breach that may have exposed the personal information of about 11,000 people. The state Department of Human Services notified lawmakers Tuesday the incident. Attackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 08, 2019
The developer, marketer, direct-seller, and wholesaler of indoor garden systems, AeroGrow International, suffered a payment card data breach. AeroGrow International, a developer, marketer, direct-seller, and wholesaler of indoor garden systems, recently notified customers of a payment card data breach. The incident impacted the company website. “On March 4, 2019, AeroGrow learned that an unauthorized person […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 03, 2019
The huge trove of Facebook user data was amassed and stored online on unprotected cloud servers by third-party Facebook app developers. Definitively I can tell you that this is an awful period for Facebook and its users. We first read about an embarrassing incident involving the social network giant that asked some newly-registered users to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 03, 2019
The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) announced to have suffered a security breach, “an unknown outside entity” had access to data of up to 1.3 million people. The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) suffered a security breach, on Tuesday it revealed that “an unknown outside entity” had gained unauthorized access to a database […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 01, 2019
Last week, Earl Enterprises admitted having suffered a payment card data breach from tens of its restaurants over a period of 10 months. Earl Enterprises admitted that hackers have stolen payment card data from tens of its restaurants over a period of 10 months. Restaurants at Buca di Beppo, Earl of Sandwich, Planet Hollywood, Chicken […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 31, 2019
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! Federal Emergency Management Agencys (FEMA) data leak exposes data of 2.3M survivors Malware Static Analysis Microsoft Defender APT now protects also macOS WordPress Social Warfare plugin zero-day exploited in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2019
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) sales subsidiary and its affiliates suffered a data breach that exposed personal information of millions of customers in Japan. The week closes with the news of a data breach suffered by Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) sales subsidiary and its affiliates that exposed personal information belonging to millions of customers in Japan. […]
