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Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2018
Military personnel improperly used Fitness Strava Tracker exposed their bases

Military worldwide have publicly shared online their exercise routes recorded through the fitness tracker Strava revealing the fitness sessions conducted inside or near military bases We discussed many times privacy risks related to IoT devices, here we are to discuss an alarming case, fitness tracker Strava revealed details of Military Bases. American and allied military worldwide have publicly shared their exercise […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2018
Three Sonic apps in the Google Play are leaking data to uncertified servers

According to a researcher from security firm Predeo, three Sonic apps in the Google Play published by SEGA leak users’ data to uncertified servers. According to a researcher from security firm Predeo, some game applications in the Google Play published by SEGA leak users’ data to uncertified servers. The Android apps are Sonic Dash,  Sonic the Hedgehog™ Classic, and Sonic […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2018
Researchers found misconfigured Jenkins servers leaking sensitive data

Security expert Mikail Tunç analyzed Jenkins servers exposed online discovering that many instances leak sensitive information. The researchers clarify that he did not exploit any vulnerabilities to gain access to Jenkins servers, he simply analyzed open ones. Jenkins is the most popular open source automation server, it is maintained by CloudBees and the Jenkins community. The automation […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 16, 2018
Canadian man charged over leak of billions hacked accounts through LeakedSource

A Canadian Man supposed to be the admin of the LeakedSource.com website was charged over the leak of 3 billion hacked accounts. The Canadian man Jordan Evan Bloom (27) was charged with data leak of 3 billion hacked accounts, the man was running a website to collect personal data and login credentials from the victims. The man […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 05, 2018
Data breach of the Aadhaar biometric system poses a serious risk for 1 Billion Indian residents

The Tribune announced to have “purchased” a service that provided it an unrestricted access to the residents’ records in the Aadhaar system. According to The Tribune, hackers have breached the Unique Identification Authority of India’s Aadhaar biometric system and gained access to personally identifiable information (i.e. names, addresses, phone numbers) of more than 1 billion […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 29, 2017
Ancestry.com Responds Well To RootsWeb Data Breach

The popular expert Troy Hunt notified the Ancestry.com security team of an unsecured file on a RootsWeb server containing “email addresses/username and password combinations as well as usernames from a RootsWeb.com server”. When you think of personal security questions, you might think of your mother’s surname or other family information that normally isn’t shared — […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2017
19 Million California Voter records held for ransom attack on a MongoDB instance

Voter registration data for more than 19 million California residents stored in an unsecured MongoDB instance has been deleted and held for ransom. Voter registration data for more than 19 million California residents that was stored in an unsecured MongoDB database has been deleted and held for ransom by attackers. The incident was discovered by researchers at […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 12, 2017
A collection of 1.4 Billion Plain-Text leaked credentials is available online

A 41-gigabyte archive containing 1.4 Billion credentials in clear text was found in dark web, it had been updated at the end of November. Another monster data dump was found online, the huge archive contains over 1.4 billion email addresses, passwords, and other credentials in clear text. The huge trove of data, a 41-gigabyte archive, has been […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 06, 2017
31 Million of client records belonging to the virtual keyboard app AI.type leaked online

Another day, another clamorous data breach, this time let’s discuss a data breach that exposes personal data collected by the Keyboard App AI.type. This story reminds us that every time we download an app we are enlarging our surface of attack, in the majority of cases we are not aware of exact amount of data they […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 02, 2017
Anonymous launch Brazilian Corrupt Public Sector Entities Data Leak

In an astonishing move, Anonymous leak public sector entities infrastructure topology data for the people of Brazil in the midst of Lava Jato scandal. The compromised data includes IP addresses from the public sector, ranging law enforcement agencies and local municipality. This data leak comes at a moment where a strong fight against corruption is […]