Digital ID

Pierluigi Paganini December 01, 2017
Cryptocurrency Miners hidden in websites now run even after users close the browser

Some websites use a simple trick to keep their cryptocurrency miners scripts running in the background even when the user has closed the browser window. Website administrators and crooks are looking with an increasing interest at JavaScript-based cryptocurrency miners due to rapid increase in cryptocurrency prices. These scripts exploit the CPU power of their visitor’s PC to mine Bitcoin […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 30, 2017
US Judge Orders Coinbase to hand over details of 14,355 US citizens to the IRS

A federal judge in the California court has ruled that cryptocurrency exchange portal Coinbase must hand over details of over 14,000 users to the US IRS. In November 2016, the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has filed a motion asking the US Federal Court of Northern California to force the US-based cryptocurrency exchange portal to […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 29, 2017
Bitcoin Gold (BTG) dev team warns its users about a security breach

The development team of the Bitcoin Gold (BTG) cryptocurrency is warning all users users about a security breach involving its Windows version of wallet app The development team of the Bitcoin Gold (BTG) cryptocurrency is warning all users users about a security breach involving the official Windows wallet application offered for download via its official website. Bitcoin Gold […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 27, 2017
The energy used to mine Bitcoin this year is bigger than the annual usage of almost 160 countries

According to PowerCompare.co.uk, the electricity used to mine Bitcoin this year is bigger than the annual usage of almost 160 countries. While the price of cryptocurrencies such as the Bitcoin continues to increase the interest of investors and crooks in this new industry is demonstrated by disconcerting data that I’m going to share with you. According to […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 25, 2017
GOLDEN SAML attack technique forges authentication to cloud apps

Golden SAML could be exploited by an attacker to create fake enterprise identities and access to valuable cloud resources. Security experts at CyberArk Labs have devised a post-intrusion attack technique dubbed Golden SAML that could be exploited by an attacker to create fake enterprise identities and forge authentication to gain access to valuable cloud resources […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 24, 2017
Firefox will notify users who visit sites that suffered a data breach

Mozilla developer revealed the Firefox browser will soon include a new feature to notify users who visit sites that suffered a data breach Firefox browser is going to introduce a new security feature to make the users’ experience online more secure, it will warn users if they visit websites that have experienced data breaches. The news was […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 23, 2017
Google gathers Android users’ location data even when location services are disabled

Google is secretly gathering location data from billions of Android users, the news is disconcerting and once again raise the debate about user’s privacy. The disconcerting discovery was made by researchers from Quartz. Big G has been caught collecting location data on every Android device owner in the past 11 months. The worse news is that the […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 22, 2017
ProtonMail Contacts – ProtonMail launches world’s first encrypted contacts manager

ProtonMail launched ProtonMail Contacts, the world’s first contact manager with both zero-access encryption and digital signature verification. ProtonMail is announcing today the launch of the world’s first encrypted contacts manager that also features digital signature verification. Starting immediately, the new contacts manager is available to all of ProtonMail’s 5 million users around the world. The development […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 22, 2017
Unbelievable: Uber concealed data breach that exposed 57 Million records in 2016

Unbelievable: Uber concealed data breach that exposed 57 Million records in 2016 and paid hackers to delete stolen records. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced on Tuesday that hackers broke into the company database and accessed the personal data of 57 million of its users, the bad news is that the company covered up the hack […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 20, 2017
The controversial certificate authority StartCom will go out of business on January 1, 2018

The Startcom CA board chairman Xiaosheng Tan, announced that the controversial certificate authority will end its activity on January 1, 2018. The controversial certificate authority StartCom is going to close, according to board chairman Xiaosheng Tan, the business will end its activity on January 1, 2018. Starting from January 1, 2018, StartCom will no longer issue new digital […]