Digital ID

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2021
ADT employee pleads guilty for accessing cameras installed by the company

A former ADT employee pleads guilty for accessing the cameras he installed at the home of the company’s customers in the Dallas area. Telesforo Aviles (35) is a former ADT employee that pleaded for accessing the cameras he installed at the home of the company’s customers. Every time the man worked at the home of […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2021
Livecoin halted operations after the December attack

The Russian cryptocurrency exchange Livecoin has announced it is terminating its operation following the December cyberattack.  The Russian cryptocurrency exchange was hacked on Christmas Eve, it published a message on its website warning customers to stop using its services. “Dear clients, we ask you to stop using our service in all meanings: don’t deposit funds, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 18, 2021
German laptop retailer fined €10.4m under GDPR for video-monitoring employees

German data regulator LfD announced a €10.4M fine under GDPR against the online laptop and electronic goods retailer NBB for video-monitoring employees. The State Commissioner for Data Protection (LfD) Lower Saxony announced a €10.4 million fine under the GDPR against an online laptop and electronic goods retailer NBB’s (notebooksbilliger.de) for video-monitoring employees for at least […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 06, 2021
WhatsApp will share your data with Facebook and its companies

WhatsApp is notifying users that starting February 8, 2021, they will be obliged to share their data with Facebook, leaving them no choice. This is bad news for WhatsApp users and their privacy, the company is notifying them that starting February 8, 2021, they will be requested to share their data with Facebook companies. Curiously […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 05, 2021
New ElectroRAT employed in a wide-ranging operation targeting cryptocurrency users

Researchers uncovered a large scale operation targeting cryptocurrency users with a previously undetected multiplatform RAT named ElectroRAT. Security researchers from Intezer uncovered a large scale operation targeting cryptocurrency users with a previously undetected RAT named ElectroRAT. The campaign was uncovered in December, but according to the experts is active since at least January 2020. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 31, 2020
New Golang-based Crypto worm infects Windows and Linux servers

Experts from Intezer discovered a new and self-spreading Golang-based malware that targets Windows and Linux servers. Experts from Intezer discovered a Golang-based worm that targets Windows and Linux servers. The malware has been active since early December targeting public-facing services, including MySQL, Tomcat admin panel and Jenkins that are protected with weak passwords. The worm […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2020
EU Digital Services and Digital Markets Acts aim at setting new rules for tech giants

The European Union is going to unveil two laws, the Digital Services and Digital Markets Acts, that will impose new rules for tech giants. The European Union is set to unveil two laws, the Digital Services and Digital Markets Acts, that aim at defining new rules for the digital market, especially for the operations of […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 13, 2020
PgMiner botnet exploits disputed CVE to hack unsecured PostgreSQL DBs

Researchers have discovered a botnet dubbed PgMiner that targets PostgreSQL databases running on Linux servers to install a cryptocurrency miner. Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks have discovered a new botnet, tracked as PgMiner, that targets PostgreSQL databases running on Linux servers to install a cryptocurrency miner. PostgreSQL, also known as Postgres, is one of […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 09, 2020
The importance of computer identity in network communications: how to protect it and prevent its theft

The importance of computer identity in network communications: how to protect it and prevent threat actors from spying or stealing on online communications When you fill out a registration form to take advantage of a web service, a virtual personal profile is generated, creating your own IT identity characterized by specific attributes. Even those who […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 27, 2020
Details of 16 million Brazilian COVID-19 patients exposed online

The personal and health details of more than 16 million Brazilian COVID-19 patients, including Government representatives, have been exposed online. Personal and health details of more than 16 million Brazilian COVID-19 patients has been accidentally exposed online due to an error of an employee of a Brazilian hospital. An employee of Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paolo […]