Pierluigi Paganini
May 27, 2019
The US real-estate insurance biz, First American Financial, accidentally leaked customers’ highly personal files online, hundreds of millions of documents. The US real-estate insurance company First American Financial Corp. accidentally leaked hundreds of millions of documents. The company has more than 18,000 employees and brought in more than $5.7 billion in 2018. Roughly 885 million insurance-related documents […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 27, 2019
Perceptics, a maker of vehicle license plate scanning solutions used in the US, has been hacked, attackers stole data and offered for free on the dark web. Perceptics is a leader in license plate readers (LPRs), license plate recognition systems and vehicle identification products. The company was hacked and attackers stole data and offered business […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2019
A new data leak made the headlines, a database containing the contact information of millions of Instagram influencers, celebrities and brand accounts has been found online. The news was first reported by the TechCrunch website, a database was left unprotected on an AWS bucket, anyone was able to access it without authentication. The unprotected database was discovered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 17, 2019
The popular question-and-answer platform for programmers Stack Overflow announced on Thursday that is has suffered a data breach. The news of a data breach makes the headlines, this time the victim is the popular question-and-answer platform for programmers Stack Overflow. The company announced on Thursday that it has discovered unauthorized access to its production systems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 16, 2019
The Magecart gang made the headlines again, the hackers this time compromised the Forbes magazine subscription website. The Magecart group is back, the hackers this time compromised injected a skimmers script into the Forbes magazine subscription website. The malicious traffic was spotted by the security expert Troy Mursch, Chief Research Officer of Bad Packets, on Wednesday. Magecart hackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 14, 2019
Personally identifiable information belonging to roughly 90% of Panama citizens were exposed on a poorly configured Elasticsearch server. Security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered an unprotected Elasticsearch server exposing personally identifiable information belonging to nearly 90% of Panama citizens. Exposed data includes full names, birth dates, national ID numbers, medical insurance numbers, and other personal data. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2019
Yoroi Cyber Security Annual Report 2018 – In 2018 cyber-security experts observed an increased number of cyber attacks, malware endure to be the most aggressive and pervasive threat. For this reason, analyzing the last year occurred events would help cyber-security professionals to prevent further attacks during the next few months. In many cases the attacks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 09, 2019
Canadian Freedom Mobile mobile network operator exposed the details of many customers, including their payment card data. Security researchers at vpnMentor discovered an unprotected database containing information belonging to Freedom Mobile customers. Freedom Mobile is the fourth largest mobile network operator in Canada. The unprotected database stored at least 5 million records associated with 1.5 million […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 03, 2019
Employment-recruitment site Ladders exposed 13M User Records Employment-recruitment site Ladders exposed left online a misconfigured AWS-hosted database that contained 13 million user records. Sanyam Jain, a security researcher and a member of the GDI Foundation, discovered a database belonging to the employment-recruitment site Ladders left exposed online on a misconfigured AWS-hosted database. The archive contained 13 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 02, 2019
Citrix confirmed that the hackers who breached its network stole sensitive personal information of both former and current employees for about six months. In March, the American multinational software company Citrix disclosed a security breach, according to the firm an international cyber criminals gang gained access to its internal network. Experts at cybersecurity firm Resecurity […]
