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Pierluigi Paganini June 07, 2017
FBI arrests NSA contractor Reality Leigh Winner for leaking top-secret report

The FBI agents arrested the NSA contractor Reality Leigh Winner for leaking the top-secret report, here’s how she was identified. Yesterday the online news outlet The Intercept published a top-secret NSA report that shows Russian state-sponsored hackers tried repeatedly to hack the US voting systems before last 2016 Presidential election. A few hours later, it is […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 01, 2017
Top Defense contractor left Pentagon docs unsecured on Amazon server

A top defense contractor left tens of thousands sensitive Pentagon documents on Amazon Server Without any protection in places. The popular security expert Chris Vickery discovered more than 60,000 sensitive files belonging to a US military project for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) left on Amazon cloud storage server without authentication. The documents were reportedly left unsecured on […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2017
While Trump confirms information sharing with Russians, CIA and NSA leaks threaten Global Security

Opponents of U.S. President Trump are currently locked into scoring political points over alleged leaks from the White House during a meeting with top Russian envoys. Yet, classified details of the meeting leaked to press outlets by either the CIA or NSA shows massive breaches of valuable sources and details from inside U.S. intelligence agencies […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 03, 2017
Information Security Practices of Aadhaar – 135 Million Indian government payment card details leaked

A CIS study estimated number of Aadhaar numbers leaked through 4 gov portals could be around 135 million and 100M bank account numbers. The Aadhaar is the world’s largest biometric ID system, with over 1.123 billion enrolled members as of 28 February 2017. The role of the system is crucial for both authenticating and authorizing transactions and […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 29, 2017
Expert discovered online data belonging to the trading firm AMP

Security expert Chris Vickery reported a data breach at online trading firm AMP that exposed customer credit reports, and Social Security numbers. The popular security expert Chris Vickery has discovered a new data breach that affected the AMP online trading firm that exposed thousands of files, including credit reports, passport scans, and customer chat logs. This specific […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 24, 2017
Technical issue at the Jharkhand govt website caused the exposure of more than 1.4 million Aadhaar numbers

Personal information associated with more than a million Aadhaar numbers published on Jharkhand govt website due to a technical problem. Digital identities of more than a million citizens have been exposed due to a coding error on a website maintained by the Jharkhand Directorate of Social Security. “We got to know about it this week […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 28, 2017
Are you a Docs.com user? Watch out you may have leaked passwords and other precious data

Thousands of users of the Microsoft searchable Docs.com service have inadvertently exposed passwords and other private information on the Internet. Bad news for thousands of users of the Microsoft searchable Docs.com service who have inadvertently exposed passwords and other private information on the Internet. The Docs.com service allows people to easily exchange documents, it implements a useful […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 21, 2017
McDonald’s McDelivery app leaks details of over 2.2 million customers

The McDelivery application used by McDonald’s customers in India was found to be leaking the personal data of more than 2.2 million users. McDelivery is a web application used by McDonald’s customers in India that was found to be leaking the personal information of more than 2.2 million users. The issue was discovered by researchers at security […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 19, 2017
Fappening 2.0 – More explicit pictures of celebrities leaked online

Fappening 2.0, Nude pictures of several celebrities have been leaked online, including Rose McGowan, Amanda Seyfried and Jillian Murray. Here we are speaking again of Fappening, new nude pictures of celebrities have been leaked online. In 2014 for the first time, several lots of private photographs of celebrities were leaked online, the phenomenon was dubbed […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 10, 2017
CIA replies to WikiLeaks Vault7 Leak, it is operating to protect Americans

WikiLeaks Vault7 – CIA pointed out that its mission is to “aggressively collect” foreign intelligence from overseas entities. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has issued an official statement in response to the Wikileaks Vault7 Data leak. The US intelligence agency denies conducting a large-scale surveillance on its citizens. According to an unnamed U.S. officials quoted […]