Pierluigi Paganini
June 27, 2017
Anthem, the largest US healthcare insurance company, has agreed to pay $115m to settle a class-action suit brought on by the 2015 data breach. Anthem, the largest US healthcare insurance company, has agreed to pay $115m to settle a class-action suit brought on by the 2015 data breach. The attack on Anthem exposed 78.8 million records and according […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 29, 2016
The Australian Red Cross Blood Service confirmed the data leak that exposed a backup database containing the personal details of donors. This data leak is considered by security experts one of the most severe due to the nature of the target, the Australian Red Cross Blood Service. The sensitive database was discovered on October 24 by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 20, 2015
The Antivirus maker AVG has announced its privacy policy in which the company informs users that it will collect and sell users’ personal data to advertisers. If you think that there is something really free on the Internet you are probably wrong. Someone ask you to pay for their products and services, others use their […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 18, 2015
Intel Security published an a curious study to test consumer knowledge about phishing practice and measure the ability to detect phishing emails. For this study, Intel Security presented 10 emails where people were asked to identify which emails were phishing with the purpose of steal personal data, and which were legit, legal emails. The data for the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2015
Experts at Check Point security firm analyzed the recent data breach suffered by Anthem, the nationâs second-largest health insurer. The attack on Anthem, the second-largest health insurer in the U.S., which exposed identifiable personal data of tens of millions of people, was probably not a smash-and-grab raid but instead a sustained, low-key siphoning information over […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 29, 2012
Article published on The Malta Indipendent by Ron Kelson – Vice Chair ICT Gozo Malta Project, Pierluigi Paganini â Director and CISO of Bit4ID, Italy and Benjamin Gittins – CTO Synaptic Laboratories Ltd. Mobile phones were once the status symbols of high-flying business executives. Today, mobile phones have become an essential part of our day-to-day lives. […]
