Digital ID

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2015
OPM stolen data includes 5.6 Million Fingerprints

According to the a statement by OPM Press Secretary Sam Schumach on Background Investigations Incident OPM breach included 5.6 Million Fingerprints. The press secretary of the Office of Personnel Management, Sam Schumach, announced that the data breach suffered by the OPM exposed approximately 5.6 million sets of fingerprints belonging to federal employees, contractors, and other members of the staff. In […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2015
Korean Govt child monitoring app is full of bugs exposing minors at risks

Researchers from Citizen Lab and German security firm Cure53 analyzed the Govt child monitoring app Smart Sheriff discovered that it is full of bugs. It’s curious, thinking to a child monitoring app you imagine a solution that can protect your children, instead the situation could be really different. Researchers with the Canadian watchdog group Citizen Lab have […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 20, 2015
AVG will sell user’s personal data to third-parties

The Antivirus maker AVG has announced its privacy policy in which the company informs users that it will collect and sell users’ personal data to advertisers. If you think that there is something really free on the Internet you are probably wrong. Someone ask you to pay for their products and services, others use their […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 13, 2015
Vodafone Australia has hacked a Fairfax journalist’s phone

The Telecommunications giant Vodafone denies ‘improper behaviour’ after its employee accessed Natalie O’Brien’s phone records to discover its sources. Vodafone Australia has admitted it hacked a journalist’s phone records for espionage purpose. The company was trying to discover the sources for journalist’s stories, but Vodafone denies any “improper behaviour”. The journalist is Natalie O’Brien and in […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 30, 2015
Security Affairs newsletter Round 24 – Best of the week from best sources

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. Who are the Ashley Madison users? Hacking the Iridium network could be very easy Amazon to trash Flash, as browsers walk away Keyless Cars: A New Frontier For Bug […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 24, 2015
Thousands Britons’s hard drives easy to hack with Shodan info

Thousands Britons have been exposed in massive new data hack, their personal and financial data are easy to access online with a simple query on Shodan. Thousands of Britons are exposed to cyber crime after the content of their PC was exposed on the Internet by Shodan, a website dubbed the “Google for hackers.” The leaked […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 23, 2015
Security Affairs newsletter Round 23 – Best of the week from best sources

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. Dark marketplaces raked from $300,000 to $500,000 a day How to hack a Parrot drone on the fly How BitTorrent could let lone DDoS attackers bring down big sites […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2015
AT&T secretly helped Spy agency, suggests new NSA leaked documents

The US National Security Agency has utilized an exceptional, decades-old association with AT&T to snoop on Internet utilization, as per recently uncovered reports spilled by Edward Snowden. The archives gave by the previous NSA foreman and checked on by The New York Times and ProPublica portrayed a “profoundly synergistic” telecom titan that showed a “great […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 18, 2015
SS7 flaw allows hackers to spy on every conversation

By Exploiting a flaw in the SS7 protocol hackers can access every conversation and text message mobile users send from everywhere in the world. Hackers can spy on every mobile phone user wherever it is. Channel Nine’s 60 Minutes has revealed the existence of a security hole in modern telecommunication systems that could be exploited by […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 16, 2015
Security Affairs newsletter Round 22 – Best of the week from best sources

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. ZigBee-sniffing drone used to map online Internet of Things RollJam, a $30 device to unlock the majority of car doors Tesla tech top dog downs slug of Scotch, increases […]