Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2015
US health insurer Premera Blue Cross announced its network had been hacked, potentially exposing data from 11 million individuals. A few weeks after the disclosure of the data breach suffered by from Anthem Blue Cross, which exposed 80 million customer records, another US health insurer was victim of a major attack that is affecting 11 Million customers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 06, 2015
Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) confirms that following the SIGA data breach, confidential data belonging to US military personnel were exposed. A bad news for the US military, the Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) confirms that, following a the data breach of the German telecom company SIGA Telecom and an AAFES contractor occurred on March 5, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 02, 2015
A cyber resilience approach: the need to become cyber resilient is very essential because eliminating risks completely is impossible. Hacking emerged as a geeky, tech-oriented culture that was a little mischievous, but ultimately was about programming and finding faults or bugs in the code. It has evolved over time to become a criminal activity. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 01, 2015
Cloud Security Alliance revealed that shadow cloud service used by employees and unmanaged by IT can pose a major security problem for organizations. Last month, Cloud Security Alliance found out that shadow cloud service used by employees and unmanaged by IT can pose a major security problem for organizations. Based on the survey, mostly half […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 28, 2015
The giant Uber announced a data breach that resulted in unauthorized access to the driver partner license numbers of roughly 50,000 of its drivers. Are you a user of the Uber service? There is a bad news for you! Uber also enters the long list of companies who are victims of a data breach. On Friday, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2015
DNA Cryptography can be defined as a hiding data in terms of DNA Sequence. Why DNA Cryptography and which are the principal benefits for its adoption? DNA Computing Information Security is very vital in today’s digital era of e-commerce and e-business. While 2014 was “The Year of Data Breach”, 2015 is off to a fast […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2015
Jefferson National Parks Association discloses POS breach at Gateway Arch stores caused by a malware infection of the payments systems. Jefferson National Parks Association announced on Friday about malware found on Point-of-Sale (POS) Systems deployed by two gift shops named Gateway Arch located in St. Louis. So far, it has been confirmed that most of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2015
Gemalto has issued the 2014 Breach Level Index based on data gathered from publicly-available information about data breaches throughout the world. A new research published by Gemalto security firms reveals that more than 1 billion data records were stolen in more than 1,500 different data breaches last year. The company highlighted the significant increase in both corporate breaches and data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2015
Experts at Check Point security firm analyzed the recent data breach suffered by Anthem, the nation’s second-largest health insurer. The attack on Anthem, the second-largest health insurer in the U.S., which exposed identifiable personal data of tens of millions of people, was probably not a smash-and-grab raid but instead a sustained, low-key siphoning information over […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 07, 2015
The security portal secnews.gr revealed that Anonymous has taken over the website of the German politician Martin Schulz and has stolen sensitive data. According to the exclusive information provided by the Greek security portal www.secnews.gr the hacktivist group Anonymous has taken over the official website of the German politician Martin Schulz. An unknown person contacted Secnew’s journalists […]
