Pierluigi Paganini
October 15, 2015
5 Guidelines in Battling Cyber Criminals Over Precious Business Data, lets’s try to understand how to Ensure Enterprise Security. You would think that a company that stores their clients’ money and handles investments would have tight security measures on their system against cyber attacks. Apparently, this is not always the case. In 2014, Scottrade, a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2015
The Dow Jones firm confirmed to have suffered a data breach, payment card and contact info for less than 3,500 users have been exposed. At the end of the last week, the CEO of Dow Jones & Co disclosed a data breach affecting 3,500 people in a letter to customers. Dow Jones is a media company owned […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 03, 2015
Online stock brokerage Scottrade has suffered a major data breach that exposed the personal information of 4.6 million customers. Data breach news are making the headlines, while I’m writing about the hack of the crowdfunding website Patreon and the hack of Experian, the news of a data breach suffered by the online stock brokerage Scottrade is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 03, 2015
The Crowdfunding website Patreon has been hacked and about 15 gigabytes of data including names, addresses and donations have been published online. The data have been available on different servers online locations, including this source. The Patreon website collects donations to artists for projects, according to the information provided by the chief executive Jack Conte, credit card […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2015
Experian’s data breach puts 15 million T-Mobile users’ personal information at risk- The company already started the incident response procedure. T-Mobile has announced that data belonging to 15 million consumers may have compromised in a cyber attack that the company has suffered. The hackers targeted the Experian company which processes some of T-Mobile’s credit applications accessing customers personal data. “We have been notified […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 11, 2015
Ashley Madison – A group of hackers which calls itself CynoSure Prime has cracked more than 11 Million hashed passwords protected with Bcrypt. How? Last month hackers breached the popular adultery website Ashley Madison and leaked online a dump containing data belonging to 37 Million users, including 37 Million of encrypted password. News of the day is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 11, 2015
Another cyber attack hit computer systems at the Pentagon, this time the food court computers have been hacked exposing employees’ bank information. In August, alleged Russian hackers have hacked an unclassified emailing server of the Pentagon, it was just one of the numerous attacks against the US Government systems. According to the NBC news, US […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 07, 2015
Security researchers have observed a spike in extortion attempts and phishing campaigns against the Ashley Madison users … are they effective? The hack of the Ashley Madison website has demonstrated us how much dangerous could be a cyber attack against a website that manage sensitive and confidential information of millions users. The disclosure of the Ashley Madison dump has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 2015
The hackers behind that data breach of the Ashley Madison website have released another dump of 20 GB and experts are publishing their analysis on it. The recent hack of the adultery website Ashley Madison is attracting the attention of the media, after the disclosure of a second dump of data the security experts started their […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 21, 2015
The US-based web hosting company Web.com has been Hacked, it admitted that credit card information of 93,000 customers have been compromised. Web.com is the last victim of a data breach, the US-based web hosting company has up to 3.3 Million customers. According the first news circulating in the Internet the hackers may have compromised personal information and […]
