Digital ID

Pierluigi Paganini June 07, 2019
Cryptocurrency startup Komodo hacks itself to protect its users’ funds from hackers

The Cryptocurrency startup Komodo hacked itself to protect the funds of its users and avoid that hackers steal them exploiting a flaw in its Agama wallet. The story I’m going to tell you is amazing, the Cryptocurrency startup Komodo hacked itself after discovered a backdoor in its Agama wallet. Komodo’s Agama Wallet allows users to […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 03, 2019
Google is taking action on deceptive installation tactics for Chrome Browser Extensions

Google aims at eliminating the use of deceptive installation tactics among Chrome browser extensions introducing a new policy. Google announced a new policy for Chrome browser extensions to eliminate the use of deceptive installation tactics. The additional changes are part of the Project Strobe presented by Google in October 2018 in the aftermath of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 02, 2019
ProtonMail denies that it spies on users for government agencies

The popular privacy-focused email service ProtonMail has been accused of offering voluntarily real-time surveillance assistance to law enforcement. The popular privacy-focused email service ProtonMail made the headlines because it has been accused of supporting real-time surveillance carried out by law enforcement. On May 10, while Stephan Walder, a public prosecutor and head of the Cybercrime […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 26, 2019
Sectigo says that most of certificates reported by Chronicle analysis were already revoked

According to Sectigo, most of the certificates used to sign the malware submitted to VirusTotal and issued by the company were expired and were already revoked. This week experts at Chronicle published a study on signed malware registered on VirusTotal that states that most of the digital certificates used to sign malware samples found on […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 26, 2019
Police seized Bestmixer, the mixing service washed at least $200 million in a year

European law enforcement seized and shut down Bestmixer.io for reportedly laundering over $200 million in cryptocurrency. This week the Europol has dealt another blow to cybercrime, the European police along with the Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD), and Luxembourg authorities shut down Bestmixer.io, on one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency mixing services. A […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 25, 2019
Snapchat staff used internal tools to spy on users

Snapchat internal staff has allegedly abused their role in the company to spy on Snapchat users using and internal tools and steal data. Snapchat is a multimedia messaging app that makes pictures, videos, and messages (snaps) available for a short time before they become inaccessible to their recipients. Initially, it was only allowing person-to-person photo sharing, but now […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 24, 2019
Facebook says it took down 2.19 billion accounts in Q1 2019

Social network giant Facebook revealed it recently disabled billions of accounts operated by “bad actors” and that five percent of active accounts are fake. The news is disconcerting, but sincerely not so surprising, Facebook announced it recently disabled billions of accounts operated by “bad actors” and that five percent of its active accounts are fake. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2019
G Suite users’ passwords stored in plain-text for more than 14 years

Google accidentally stored the passwords of its G Suite users in plain-text for 14 years allowing its employees to access them. The news is disconcerting, Google has accidentally stored the passwords of the G Suite users in plain-text for 14 years, this means that every employee in the company was able to access them. According […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 19, 2019
Unpatched Ethereum Clients expose the ecosystem to 51% Attack risk

Security researchers from SRLabs have published a report that analyzed the risks for Ethereum network caused by unpatched Ethereum clients. Researchers at SRLabs published a report based on ethernodes.org data, that revealed that a large number of nodes using the popular clients Parity and Geth is still unpatched. The expert discovered that the Ethereum clients and […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2019
Twitter inadvertently collected and shared iOS location data

Twitter confirmed revealed that a bug in its iOS app it the root cause for an inadvertent collection of location data and sharing it with a third-party. A new story of a violation of the user’s privacy made the lines, Twitter revealed that due to a bug is collected and shared iOS location data with […]