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Pierluigi Paganini April 06, 2016
Homeland Security – US Consular Consolidated Database vulnerable to cyber attacks

According to the results of an internal review, the US passport and visa Consular Consolidated Database (CCD)  database is open to intrusion. According to the results of an internal review of the US State Department, the Consular Consolidated Database (CCD) is vulnerable to cyber attacks. The State Department considers the CCD as an “unclassified but […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 05, 2014
Are Contactless Visa Cards exposed to risk of theft for 1M?

Researchers at the Newcastle University discovered a flaw in contactless Visa cards that can be exploited to steal up to 1M from cardholders without the PIN. A group of researchers at Newcastle University in the UK has discovered a hole in Contactless Visa Cards that could be exploited by cyber criminals to steal $1M per Card without knowing their PIN. The contactless credit […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2012
Zeus P2P variant against Facebook,Hotmail,Yahoo & Google Mail

The experts of Trusteer firm have discovered a new variant Zeus malware responsible of  a series of attacks against principal internet service providers. The variant carried out attacks using the P2P network architecture targeting users of Facebook, Hotmail and Yahoo and  Google Mail. What is Zeus? The Zeus Trojan is one of most notourios malware […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2012
UPGRADE – VISA, MASTERCARD and GPN breach

The day is come, yesterday morning as planned Global Payments Inc., the Atlanta-based credit and debit card processor that recently announced a breach that exposed fewer than 1.5 million card accounts, held a conference call to discuss about the breach and its impacts. Again Krebson Security Blog is the more accredited source in my opinion, they […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2012
VISA & MASTERCARD breach raises Security doubts on standard compliance

The Krebs on Security blog reported that there has been a security breach at Global Payments that “may involve more than 10 million compromised card numbers.”  We are facing with a massive breach that could impact more over 10 million compromised card numbers, for this reason VISA and MasterCard are alerting banks across US about […]