data breach

Pierluigi Paganini May 23, 2013
Cost of cybercrime for UK Small Businesses

The Federation of Small Businesses issued an interesting study on cost of cybercrime suffered by small businesses in the UK. Cost of cybercrime is usually evaluated for large corporate underestimating its dramatic effect on small business, small companies are in fact most vulnerable to the increasing cyber criminals and hacktivists. An interesting study conducted by […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2013
Google data breach, Company’s Surveillance Database hacked

Chinese hackers who breached Google in 2010 are responsible for the recent violation to Google Company’s Surveillance Database according officials revelations. Google data breach is reality and Google Company’s Surveillance Database has been violated by the same hackers who breached Google’network in 2010, the attackers have obtained the access to the company’s tracking system for […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 19, 2013
Yahoo Japan suspects 22 million user IDs stolen

Yahoo Japan Corp is investigating on a possible data breach that may have exposed 22 million user IDs stolen during an unauthorized access to web portal. Yahoo Japan Corp is investigating on a possible data breach that exposed the user IDs of 22 million accounts, another shocking event that raise the necessity to improve security […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2013
Bloomberg data breach, online 10,000 private messages

Bloomberg was the victim of an accident data breach, financial data and news service posted online more than 10,000 private messages. Bloomberg was the victim of an accident data breach, a shocking news reported that financial data and news service posted online more than 10,000 private messages between traders and clients at some of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 05, 2013
QinetiQ breached by long Chinese cyber espionage campaign

Bloomberg published a report on QinetiQ data breach, the company has been compromised from 2007 to 2012 by Chinese hackers. The UK-based defense contractor QinetiQ is vulnerable to cyber attacks, the news is sensational and has created a lot of noise on the Internet, due the critical role of the company as primary providers for U.S. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 03, 2013
US Army Corps of Engineers National Inventory of Dams hacked

The systems of the US Army Corps of Engineers’ National Inventory of Dams (NID) were hacked back in January by hacker probably having Chinese origin. The systems of the US Army Corps of Engineers’ National Inventory of Dams (NID) were hacked back in January by hackers probably having Chinese origin, the discovery has been made […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2013
LivingSocial data breach exposed 50M customer records

LivingSocial data breach exposed 50 million customer records, the news is shocking and is circulating on the Internet since last Friday. On The internet is circulating the news of the LivingSocial data breach, an incident that menace the privacy of million of users and that rekindling the debate on the level of security provided by major service companies […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 24, 2013
Verizon, large scale cyber espionage from China and much more

Verizon has issued the “2013 Data Breach Investigations Report” that investigates on a series of documented data breaches. Verizon’s RISK Team, in collaboration with other 18 partners, has issued the “2013 Data Breach Investigations Report” that investigates on a series of documented data breaches. Since 2008 the company yearly publishes data related to principal incidents occurred during […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 13, 2013
How to respond to a data breach

The number of cyber attacks is increased in an impressive way, cyber criminals, hacktivists, independent and state-sponsored hackers are daily operating in cyberspace conducting more or less dangerous offensive. Everyone is exposed to concrete risks of cyber attacks, internet users, private business and government offices, that’s why is fundamental to have a clear idea on […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 05, 2013
Soaring of Bitcoin value continues to attract cybercrime

Surge in the value of , also increasing crimes related to the currency digital The most attentive readers and those who are interested in the main trends of virtual currency will surely have noticed the soaring of prices of Bitcoin in the last month, an inexorable growth motivated by a time of economic uncertainty on […]