Pierluigi Paganini
October 19, 2014
The Ponemon Institute as published its fifth report on the cost of cybercrime which provides interesting data on impact on the US companies. Which is the cost of cybercrime suffered by US companies? The fifth annual report published by the Ponemon Institute and titled “2014 Global Report on the Cost of Cyber Crime” reveals that cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 17, 2014
ID system of South Korea faces a significant overhaul in response to major data breaches occurred in the last years which impacted the entire population. Several times we have discussed about the economic impact of a data breach, but in the majority of cases, they were just a raw estimation to give the experts an idea […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2014
The Snappening, hundreds of thousands of unaware users have had their personal Snapchat photos and videos public disclosed by hackers. The Fappening is considered my mass media one of most interesting case of privacy violation, four archives containing a numerous celebrities nude photos have been released in the last weeks … and many experts sustain that the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 03, 2014
The cyberattack that compromised systems at JPMorgan Chase exposed accounts of 76 million households and seven million small businesses. Data related nearly 76 million households and seven million small business accounts were exposed in the recent hack of the JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) systems occurred during the summer, making it one of the biggest data breaches in history. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 22, 2014
THN disclosed details of a critical flaw discovered by the Egyptian researcher ‘Yasser H. Ali’ four months ago, which could be used to hack any eBay account. The Egyptian security researcher ‘Yasser H. Ali’ four months ago reported to the team of the The Hacker News portal a critical vulnerability in eBay system which could be used by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2014
Home Depot announced that data related to 56 million cards were stolen by cyber criminals. Home Depot, the US largest home improvement retailer, confirms breach impacted 56 million customers. On Thursday the company Home Depot released an update on the evolution of the investigation of the data breach suffered by the company. Home Depot data breach is larger than the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 10, 2014
A database containing nearly million login and passwords for Google accounts has been leaked online on a Russian cyber security internet forum. A database containing 5 million alleged Google login and password has been leaked online on a Russian cyber security internet forum. The news was spread by online media agencies, including RT.com. The huge archive is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 09, 2014
Experts at Trustwave analyzed point-of-sale malware providing data related principal code used, exfiltration and persistence techniques implemented. Trustwave firm as published an interesting report on the point-of-sale malware based on its investigation on different breaches involving payment card data. The experts at Trustwave have examined a large amount of malware that targets point-of-sale devices, this family of malicious code is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 30, 2014
According to a government agencies around 300 oil and energy companies in Norway have been targeted by one of the biggest hacking campaign. Nearly 300 oil and energy companies in Norway have been targeted by one of the biggest cyber attacks ever to happen in the country, a government source reported last week. The identities of the firms […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 29, 2014
Mozilla Security Team announced a new accidental disclosure of email addresses and encrypted passwords of about 97,000 Bugzilla users. On Wednesday, officials at Bugzilla, the bug-tracking system managed by Mozilla, confirmed that email addresses and encrypted passwords belonging to 97,000 of their users had been disclosed. Bugzilla is a bug-tracking software system widely used by […]
