search

Date range
Filters

18927 results

Pierluigi Paganini November 03, 2011
Hackers Attacked U.S. Satellites Connected To The Internet, Report Finds

Hackers interfered with the operation of two U.S. government satellites in 2007 and 2008 obtaining access through a ground station in Norway. The usage of the attacked satellites is climate monitoring. There aren’t any news regarding the nature of the interference but notes that the hackers “achieved all steps required to command” the Terra AM-1 […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 01, 2011
Contact me

To contact me write an email to: Pierluigi Paganini : [email protected]

Pierluigi Paganini August 27, 2026
Meta to Pay Up to $18B Over Teen Social Media Use

Meta will pay up to $18B and cap teen Facebook and Instagram use at two hours daily after nearly all US states sued over child safety. Meta will pay up to $18 billion over the next decade and impose real usage limits on teenagers using Facebook and Instagram, settling claims that the company deliberately designed […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 27, 2026
CISA Warns Water Utilities: Find Your Exposed PLCs Before Attackers Do

CISA urges water utilities to find and secure internet-exposed PLCs after July attacks showed how easily exposed industrial systems can be compromised. Over 100 internet-exposed systems in the US water and wastewater sector got hit by cyberattacks in July 2026, and CISA’s response wasn’t just an incident report, it was a how-to guide for making […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 27, 2026
OpenAI banned Russian ChatGPT accounts backing covert influence operation

OpenAI banned Russian ChatGPT accounts backing a fake think tank, IBI, that used AI posts and a fake “sovereignty” index to push pro‑Russia narratives. OpenAI says it has banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts that likely originated in Russia and were used to support a covert influence operation. The campaign promoted an organisation called the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2026
CISA Red Team Fully Compromised Two Critical Infrastructure Orgs

CISA red teams fully compromised two critical infrastructure orgs. One SOC isolated hosts in minutes; the other never detected the breach. CISA published an advisory (AA26-237A) documenting two simultaneous red team assessments at critical infrastructure organizations. Both organizations lost full domain control and had their cloud environments compromised. One of them didn’t know until CISA […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2026
FBI Seizes China-Linked Hacking Platforms QScan and QTRouter Used Against Critical Infrastructure

FBI seizes QScan and QTRouter, China-linked platforms used to hide intrusions and target U.S. critical infrastructure. The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI have seized two platforms, QScan and QTRouter, used by a China-linked group to hide cyberattacks and target critical infrastructure. The operation matters because it shows how state-backed actors no longer need […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2026
U.S. CISA adds Gitea flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Gitea flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added an Oracle HTTP Server and Oracle Weblogic Server Proxy Plug-in flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-60004 (CVSS score of 9,8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Gitea is an open-source platform for […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2026
88 ID Verification Breaches Show the Cost of Collecting Identity Data

88 ID-verification breaches exposed billions of records, highlighting the growing risks of collecting sensitive identity and biometric data. A new report from Mysterium VPN compiles 88 documented incidents since 2011 where data collected specifically to verify someone’s identity or age got breached, exposed, or sold. The confirmed and researcher-verified total sits at 2.15 billion records, […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2026
WhatsApp Adds Stronger Security as Passkeys Hit 1 Billion

WhatsApp says 1 billion users now use passkeys, while stronger two-step verification and caller context add new layers of account protection. WhatsApp has reached a significant security milestone: more than one billion people now use passkeys to protect access to their accounts. At the same time, Meta is adding stronger two-step verification and more information […]