Pierluigi Paganini
December 23, 2015
A man from the Bahamas has been charged after allegedly hacking into the email accounts belonging to 130 celebrities stealing personal information, movie scripts and sex tapes. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York , Alonzo Knowles, aka “Jeff Moxey,” is a 23-year-old man suspected to have hacked into the email […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 29, 2015
600k customer identities have been stolen in 2014 and according to government officials thousands of Britons data available for sale in the DarkWeb. The digital identities of tens of thousands of Britons are available for sale on the darkweb, including data belonging to the government personnel. Many experts speculate that the volume of data represents […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 15, 2015
According to a report recently published by the Allianz Global the cybercrime costs UK businesses about £2.8 billion annually. According to a report recently published by the Allianz Global the cyber criminal activities costs UK businesses about £2.8 billion annually, accounting for 16 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). Cybercrime impacts on the global economy with £289.6 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 24, 2015
Thousands Britons have been exposed in massive new data hack, their personal and financial data are easy to access online with a simple query on Shodan. Thousands of Britons are exposed to cyber crime after the content of their PC was exposed on the Internet by Shodan, a website dubbed the “Google for hackers.” The leaked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 12, 2015
A security flaw in the Facebook API allows hackers to decrypt and scan user IDs, nearly 1.44 billion Facebook users are at risk of identity theft. The security researcher Reza Moaiandin, Technical Director at Salt Agency, discovered a flaw in Facebook’s API that can allow hackers to scan for user ID, and that leaves about […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 05, 2015
The annual study published by Javelin Strategy & Research on identity fraud estimates that U.S. consumers actually suffered fewer losses than in the past. Last year we observed a significant number of data breaches that cause the exposure of a huge quantity of information in the criminal ecosystem. According to the 2015 Identity Fraud Study (“2015 IDENTITY FRAUD: […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 28, 2015
It is now emerging that the official NFL app for IOS and Android is vulnerable to easy hacking. The app apparently sends unencrypted data to NFL servers and can therefore be hacked by anyone monitoring user traffic. With only a few days remaining before the Superbowl, it is now emerging that the fans might be […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 07, 2015
Insider theft at Morgan Stanley affected nearly the ten percent of the company’s wealth management clients, the company officially confirmed the incident. The financial services company Morgan Stanley has confirmed a partial client data leak, the incident was confirmed by the firm in a statement published on its website. Morgan Stanley reported that an employee posted […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 21, 2014
Experts at Dell Secure Works Counter Threat Unit (CTU) published a new report on the evolution of the hacking underground marketplaces. The monitoring of black hat markets is one the principal activities of security experts and intelligence agencies, it allows information gathering on evolution of cyber threats and emerging trends in the criminal ecosystem. In […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 13, 2014
A group of hackers claims to have compromised the national database system stolen all information related to citizens resident in Serbia. Hackers claim to have data about all citizens in Serbia, if the news is confirmed this is another clamorous data breach that could have serious repercussion on the Government. It seems that cyber criminals hacked […]
