Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2019
Paying attention to cybersecurity is more important than ever in 2019. But, some companies are still unwilling to devote the necessary resources to securing their infrastructures against cyberattacks, and naive individuals think they’re immune to the tactics of cybercriminals, too. For people who still need some convincing that cybersecurity is an essential point of focus, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 08, 2018
In order to improve the security of its users, the popular software code hosting service GitHub is now alerting account holders whenever it detects that a password has been exposed by data breaches on other services. Last week the popular software code hosting service GitHub has introduced a new feature to protect its users, it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 04, 2018
Data breaches are costly for businesses that expterience them, this data fuel the black markets and sometime are offered to complanies as legitimate data. Data breaches are extraordinarily costly for businesses that experience them, both concerning reputational damage and money spent to repair the issues associated with those fiascos. And, on the consumer side of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 30, 2018
On Monday, Two Canada’s five largest banks, the Bank of Montreal (BMO) and Simplii Financial, informed their customers they are investigating a data breach. The security breach suffered by the Bank of Montreal (BMO) may have impacted less than 50,000 of the overall 8 million customers, the incident suffered by Simplii Financial may have exposed information of 40,000 clients. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 27, 2017
For the second year in a row, “123456” was the top password found in data dumps in 2017 despite the numerous warning of using strong passwords. For the second year in a row, “123456” was the top password among the millions of passwords exposed online due to the numerous data breaches suffered by organizations and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 06, 2017
Researchers at ThreatMetrix observed that online financial services and lending companies were the most targeted by crooks in 2016. Online financial services, lending companies, and alternative payment systems are privileged targets of threat actors. According to the researchers at the security firm ThreatMetrix, the number of cyber attacks against online lending companies and alternative payment systems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2015
The FBI is convinced that there is a single hacker behind the theft of login credentials for over 1.2 Billion online accounts, his name is MrGrey. According to a report published by the Reuters, the FBI is convinced that there is a single hacker behind the theft of login credentials for over 1.2 Billion online accounts, his […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 24, 2015
Trend Micro published a report that explains the dynamics triggered by data breaches, following data from the incidents to their offer in the Dark Web. Trend Micro published a report that explains the dynamics triggered by data breaches, following data from the incidents to their offer in the Dark Web. Stolen data is a precious commodity […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2015
Recorded Future discovered that credentials stolen in a number of breaches and belonging to government agencies are available online on several paste sites. According to analysts at Recorded Future, the credentials stolen in several data breached related to 100 US government domains are available online on a number of paste sites and on other websites. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 14, 2015
Hackers steal money from Starbucks mobile customers using linked credit cards, nearly 16 million customers who use the company app are at risk. Starbucks is the last victim of scammers, cyber criminals are syphoning money from the credit or debit card linked to the customers’ Starbucks accounts. The attack is quite simple for fraudsters, the criminal […]
