Pierluigi Paganini
April 04, 2016
A database containing records of 50 Million Turkish Citizens appeared online in the weekend. Is it a new or a recycled archive? Details of almost 50 Million Turkish citizens have been leaked online, the bulk data was hosted on a server with the IP address 185.100.87.84. The archive was published during the weekend, the publishers claim they it belongs […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 17, 2016
American Express is informing cardholders that their payment card data may have been exposed after a third-party service provider suffered a security breach. Another illustrious victim of a data breach is in the headlines, this time, American Express is warning Cardholders of a possible incident occurred to a third party service provider. The name of the affected service provider […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2016
Project Cumulus – A group of experts at Bitglass used watermarks to track data through the Dark Web and discover how far do phished credentials get. In April 2015, a group of experts at Bitglass used watermarks to track data through the Deep Web and discover how far does it get after a data breach. The experts discovered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2016
According to former Apple employees interviewed by the Business Insider, cyber criminals are offering Apple staffers in Ireland up to $23,000 for their login details. Insiders are one of the greatest security problems for any organizations, working from the inside they can operate under the radar for a log time stealing information and sabotaging processes and infrastructures. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 08, 2016
A hacker accessed an employee’s email account at the Department of Justice and stole 200GB of files including records of 9,000 DHS staffers and 20,000 FBI employees. Yesterday, the data related a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) staff directory were leaked online, a Twitter account shared the link to an archive containing 9,355 names. The responsible […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 30, 2016
The Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), a US Police Organisation, has been hacked and 2,5GB data dump leaked online. A data dump related to a US police association has been leaked online, as well as a backup containing personal information belonging to the member of a forum. The data dump results from the data breach […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2016
The Las Vegas Casino firm Affinity Gaming sued Trustwave for allegedly failing a data breach investigation, but Trustwave denies any wrongdoing. Affinity Gaming, a casino operator operating five casinos in Nevada, and six in other locations in the US, has sued the It security company Trustwave for a “bad” investigation, after a network breach it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 15, 2016
The Hyatt Hotels Corporation announced a total of 250 of its resorts were compromised last year in a malware-based attack that stole customer payment card information. Hyatt Hotels revealed that 250 of its resorts have been involved in the data breach suffered last year. In December the Hyatt Hotels Corporation issued an official announcement to inform its users that unknown hackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2016
Microsoft patched a Silverlight zero-day discovered by analyzing internal emails stolen to Hacking Team about Silverlight exploit. Microsoft recently fixed a number of vulnerabilities with the MS16-006 critical bulletin, including a Silverlight flaw CVE-2016-0034 that could be exploited for remote code execution. The Silverlight flaw discovered by the experts at Kaspersky Lab as a result of an investigation on the Hacking Team arsenal disclosed in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 08, 2016
The TV cable and Internet service provider Time Warner Cable is warning customers their emails and passwords may have been exposed. Nearly 320,000 of the TV cable and Internet service provider Time Warner Cable customers urge to change their passwords for the email account. The measure has been requested by the company in response to alleged unauthorized […]
