Pierluigi Paganini
January 07, 2020
Minnesota-based Alomere Health discloses a data leak that exposed personal and medical information of 49,351 patients. Personal and medical information of 49,351 patients of Minnesota-based Alomere Health might have been exposed following the compromise of two employees’ email accounts. Alomere Health is a general medical and surgical hospital in Alexandria, MN, with 127 beds. It is accredited […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2020
The US-based School management software provider Active Network disclosed a severe security breach last week. Active Network provides web-based school management software for K-12 schools and districts, last week it announced to have suffered a major security breach. The hackers gained access to Blue Bear, a cloud school accounting software customized especially for K-12 schools and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 02, 2020
The popular US restaurant chain Landry’s announced that it was the victim of a cyber-attack, malware has infected its point of sale (POS) systems. The popular US restaurant chain Landry’s disclosed a security incident, its point of sale (POS) systems have been infected with malware specifically developed to steal customers’ payment card information (i.e. credit […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 02, 2020
The Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange is forcing users to reset their passwords following a data leak. Another bad news for the community of the virtual currencies communities, the Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange has forced its users to reset their passwords following a data leak. The measure was necessary to prevent spear-phishing attacks against the users aimed at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 31, 2019
Special Olympics of New York, a nonprofit organization focused on competitive athletes with intellectual disabilities was hacked. Special Olympics New York provides inclusive opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities to compete in Olympic-style, coached sports. Unfortunately, the nonprofit organization was hacked during the Christmas holiday and the attackers later used its email server to launch […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 30, 2019
Recently the Wawa convenience store chain disclosed a payment card breach, news of the day is that Wawa is facing lawsuits over the incident. The Wawa convenience store chain is facing a wave of lawsuits over a recent security breach that affected its 850 locations in the US. Wawa convenience store chain disclosed a payment card breach, its security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 29, 2019
IoT vendor Wyze announced that one of its servers exposed the details of roughly 2.4 million customers. IoT vendor Wyze announced that details of roughly 2.4 million customers were accidentally exposed online. The company produces inexpensive smart home products and wireless cameras. The leak was reported to Wyze on December 26th at around 10:00 AM […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 28, 2019
In September Zynga, the American social game developer running social video game services suffered a data breach that 173 Million accounts. Zynga Inc is an American social game developer running social video game services founded in April 2007, it primarily focuses on mobile and social networking platforms. Among the online games developed by the company, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 23, 2019
The news of two new payment card breaches made the headlines, the victims are the Islands restaurant chain and Champagne French Bakery Cafe. The new restaurant chains with locations across the U.S. disclosed payment card breaches, in both cases, attackers used PoS malware to capture card data stored in the magnetic stripe. Exposed data includes […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2019
A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs From iPhone to NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM – exploit ‘Printconfig dll with a real-world example Iran announced to have foiled a second cyber-attack in a week Largest hospital system in New Jersey was hit by ransomware attack A thief stole […]
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