Matthijs Pontier, PhD, heeft een achtergrond als wetenschapper. Hij is al lang actief voor de Piratenpartij en was al eerder lijsttrekker. Daarnaast zit hij in het bestuur van Meer Democratie en de Stichting Drugsbeleid. Momenteel vertegenwoordigt Matthijs de Piratenpartij als fractievoorzitter in Waterschap Amstel, Gooi en Vecht en ondersteunt hij de stadsdeelfracties in Amsterdam. Bio […]

Het bericht Matthijs stelt zich voor verscheen eerst op Piratenpartij.

Un’importante realtà operante nel settore della gestione e recupero crediti a livello europeo potrebbe essere finita nel mirino dei cybercriminali. Secondo quanto emerso da un annuncio comparso su un noto forum del dark web, un attore malevolo ha messo in vendita oltre 16 terabyte di dati esfiltrati dai server aziendali e da numerose controllate, dislocate in diversi Paesi, tra cui Grecia, Spagna e Italia.

L’azienda colpita gestisce asset finanziari per conto di banche e istituzioni, e si occupa di gestione di portafogli di crediti deteriorati (NPL), oltre a fornire servizi di due diligence, gestione documentale e supporto amministrativo. I dati compromessi includerebbero interi file system provenienti da server di database e Active Directory, contenenti probabilmente informazioni su clienti, documentazione interna, report finanziari, contratti e corrispondenze sensibili.

Disclaimer: Questo rapporto include screenshot e/o testo tratti da fonti pubblicamente accessibili. Le informazioni fornite hanno esclusivamente finalità di intelligence sulle minacce e di sensibilizzazione sui rischi di cybersecurity. Red Hot Cyber condanna qualsiasi accesso non autorizzato, diffusione impropria o utilizzo illecito di tali dati. Di conseguenza, questo articolo deve essere considerato esclusivamente a scopo informativo e di intelligence.

Nel messaggio pubblicato dai cybercriminali, gli autori spiegano che i dati sono troppo voluminosi per essere condivisi come prova diretta, ma hanno pubblicato alberi delle directory per dimostrare l’entità dell’infiltrazione. I dati sembrano provenire da più domini Active Directory collegati alle sedi e sussidiarie europee del gruppo.

I dettagli del presunto attacco informatico

L’accesso ai dati viene offerto in vendita con prezzo negoziabile, e l’autore fornisce anche dei token di sessione per comunicazioni riservate con potenziali acquirenti. Una violazione di questa portata qualora confermata, rappresenta una minaccia concreta per migliaia di individui e istituzioni. Se confermati, i dati potrebbero contenere:

• Informazioni personali e bancarie di debitori
• Dati su portafogli finanziari e investimenti
• Documentazione legale riservata
• Strutture di gestione interna e credenziali di accesso

Inoltre, l’esposizione di infrastrutture Active Directory può facilitare nuove azioni offensive, come movimenti laterali all’interno delle reti, attacchi ransomware o compromissione di ambienti cloud integrati.

Conclusione

L’incidente evidenzia, ancora una volta, quanto siano vulnerabili anche le infrastrutture critiche delle aziende che gestiscono ingenti volumi di dati finanziari. È essenziale che tali enti adottino misure di cybersecurity avanzate, tra cui segmentazione delle reti, monitoraggio attivo, audit di sicurezza e piani di risposta agli incidenti.

Il settore del recupero crediti e della gestione patrimoniale, per la natura altamente sensibile dei dati trattati, rimane una delle aree più a rischio nel panorama delle minacce informatiche globali.

L'articolo 16TB di un’azienda italiana di Financial Service, in vendita nelle underground proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.

Questa cosa è la bomba atomica nello stagno 😀

Poi lamentiamoci dell'Europa...

Nel 2026 entra in vigore la direttiva europea: si potranno conoscere le buste paga dei colleghi che svolgono lo stesso lavoro, discriminare sarà più difficile

Nello specifico, il testo stabilisce che le lavoratrici e i lavoratori e i loro rappresentanti abbiano il diritto di ricevere informazioni esaurienti e chiare sui livelli retributivi medi, suddivisi anche per genere, inerenti alle categorie di lavoratori che svolgono lo stesso lavoro o un lavoro di pari valore.

Non verranno più ammesse clausole nei contratti che vietano di parlare di stipendi. E come detto, c’è la data: le aziende dovranno adeguarsi entro il 7/06/2026, in caso contrario rischiano multe, sanzioni e verranno chiamate a dimostrare di non avere effettuato discriminazioni nei luoghi di lavoro.

#lavoro #genderpaygap #discriminazionedigenere

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Like many of us of a certain vintage, [Dillan Stock] at The Stock Pot is nostalgic for VHS tapes. It’s not so much the fuzzy picture or the tracking issues we miss, but the physical experience the physical medium brought to movie night. To recreate that magic, [Dillan] made a Modern VHS with NFC and ESPHome.

NFC tags are contained in handsomely designed 3D printed cartridges. You can tell [Dillan] put quite a bit of thought into the industrial design of these: there’s something delightfully Atari-like about them, but they have the correct aspect ratio to hold a miniaturized movie poster as a label. They’re designed to print in two pieces (no plastic wasted on supports) and snap together without glue. The printed reader is equally well thought out, with print-in-place springs for that all important analog clunk.

Electronically, the reader is almost as simple as the cartridge: it holds the NFC reader board and an ESP32. This is very similar to NFC-based audio players we’ve featured before, but it differs in the programming. Here, the ESP32 does nothing related directly to playing media: it is simply programmed to forward the NFC tag id to ESPHome. Based on that tag ID, ESPHome can turn on the TV, cue the appropriate media from a Plex server (or elsewhere), or do… well, literally anything. It’s ESPHome; if you wanted to make this and have a cartridge to start your coffee maker, you could.

If this tickles your nostalgia bone, [Dillan] has links to all the code, 3D files and even the label templates on his site. If you’re not sold yet, check out the video below and you might just change your mind. We’ve seen hacks from The Stock Pot before, everything from a rebuilt lamp to an elegant downspout and a universal remote.

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Ebbene sì, ancora una volta un aggiornamento di Windows ha scatenato l’inferno. L’innocua funzione “Microsoft Print to PDF”, da anni alleata silenziosa di utenti e amministratori IT, è finita KO dopo l’aggiornamento preview di aprile 2025 su sistemi Windows 11 24H2.

Una funzionalità data per scontata, quella della stampa PDF, che improvvisamente… scompare nel nulla. Niente più stampante PDF sotto Impostazioni > Dispositivi Bluetooth e stampanti. E per chi prova a riattivarla tramite funzionalità opzionali o PowerShell? Una bella schermata con l’errore 0x800f0922. La stampante non si reinstalla e il driver non si trova.

Il fix? Solo per chi osa le patch opzionali

Microsoft ha finalmente messo una pezza al disastro con l’aggiornamento cumulativo KB5060829, rilasciato in anteprima lo scorso venerdì.
Ma attenzione: il fix è solo per i coraggiosi che installano gli update opzionali di giugno.
Per tutti gli altri, l’attesa durerà fino al Patch Tuesday di luglio.

Nel frattempo, chi non vuole aspettare dovrà tentare la riabilitazione manuale:

• Aprire la finestra “Funzionalità facoltative” con Win + R, digitare optionalfeatures e cercare Microsoft Print to PDF.

• Oppure usare PowerShell (con privilegi amministrativi), eseguendo:

Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Printing-PrintToPDFServices-FeaturesEnable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Printing-PrintToPDFServices-Features
Anche in questo caso, però, l’errore 0x800f0922 potrebbe ripresentarsi.

Non è la prima volta: quando aggiornare diventa un rischio

Questa non è che l’ennesima puntata di una lunga serie.
A marzo, altri aggiornamenti mandavano in crisi le stampanti USB, facendole sputare caratteri casuali come se fossero impazzite.
A giugno, Microsoft ha addirittura avvisato di possibili ritardi nelle patch di sicurezza a causa di metadati errati e problemi critici con Windows Update.

L’IT tra aggiornamenti e imprevisti

In un contesto in cui anche un semplice aggiornamento può nascondere qualche imprevisto, i team IT si trovano spesso a dover pianificare con attenzione ogni installazione, testando le patch prima del rilascio definitivo e monitorando eventuali anomalie.

Questa volta è toccato alla stampa PDF. La prossima? Magari un driver Bluetooth, magari nulla.
Quel che è certo è che ogni Patch Tuesday porta con sé qualche sorpresa… e un pizzico di sana prudenza non guasta mai.

L'articolo Caos da Patch: un aggiornamento di Windows 11 manda in tilt la stampa PDF proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.

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Bastian’s Night is a live talk show in German with lots of music, a weekly round-up of news from around the world, and a glimpse into the host’s crazy week in the pirate movement aka Cabinet of Curiosities.

If you want to read more about @BastianBB: –> This way

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Paramount Global, which owns CBS News, has reportedly decided to settle President Donald Trump’s frivolous lawsuit over the editing of a “60 Minutes” interview with his former presidential rival Kamala Harris.

Virtually no one aside from Trump’s hangers-on believes the case had any merit, let alone $16 million worth. There was no rational reason for Paramount to settle — aside from paying for favoritism, including over its planned merger with Skydance Media.

Legendary First Amendment lawyers Floyd Abrams and James Goodale each recall a time when news outlets were owned by news companies that had both economic and principled interests in defending the First Amendment. They’re alarmed by what they’re seeing today.

“The agreement of Paramount to pay any settlement amount to Donald Trump ... is an ominous blow to press freedom in our nation.”

Floyd Abrams

Abrams, who represented The New York Times during the Pentagon Papers case and had a hand in countless other seminal First Amendment rulings, told Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) via email that “the agreement of Paramount to pay any settlement amount to Donald Trump based on a ‘60 Minutes’ broadcast that was both journalistically responsible and fully protected by the First Amendment is an ominous blow to press freedom in our nation.”

As Abrams noted in a letter to the Times, despite the significant challenges the Trump administration presents for media outlets, “it is not too much for the public to ask of the press that it remain vigilant in its coverage of him and militant in defense of itself.”

Goodale, the Times vice president, vice chairman, and general counsel from 1963 to 1980, led the newspaper’s resistance to the Nixon administration’s war on the press. He told FPF in an email, “It’s a sad day for journalism in the United States when the corporate owners of major news broadcasters are unwilling to fight back against baseless lawsuits by politicians.”

“It’s a sad day for journalism in the United States when the corporate owners of major news broadcasters are unwilling to fight back against baseless lawsuits by politicians.”

James Goodale

Goodale reiterated his view, which he also expressed in a prior interview with FPF, that businesspeople unwilling to safeguard reporters’ rights should choose a different industry. “Operating a news outlet is a serious responsibility and those whose other financial interests won’t allow them to stand up for the First Amendment should stay out of the news business.”

Seth Stern, FPF’s director of advocacy, added that Paramount’s settlement and other capitulations by major media outlets “put to rest the myth that billionaires and corporate conglomerates will refrain from meddling with the editorial affairs of news publishers they own. CBS and other corporate-owned news outlets are full of great journalists who deserve ownership that won’t throw them under the bus to make a buck. Americans concerned by these developments should support independent news outlets willing to stand up for their journalists’ First Amendment rights so that our free press can survive this administration.”

Please contact us if you would like further comment.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Paramount Global announced late Tuesday that it will pay $16 million to settle an entirely frivolous and unconstitutional lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump over the editing of a “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris.

It’s been widely reported that the settlement is intended to clear the way for federal approval of the sale of Paramount to Skydance Media, which will result in a multimillion-dollar payout to Paramount Chair Shari Redstone.

Three U.S. senators previously launched an investigation into whether paying off Trump through a settlement to obtain approval of the sale would violate federal bribery and other laws, and the California Senate opened a similar investigation.

The following statement can be attributed to Seth Stern, director of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF):

Today is a dark day for press freedom. Paramount’s spineless decision to settle Trump’s baseless and patently unconstitutional lawsuit is an insult to the journalists of ‘60 Minutes’ and an invitation to Trump to continue targeting other news outlets. Each time a company cowers and surrenders to Trump’s demands it only emboldens him to do it again.

It will be remembered as one of the most shameful capitulations by the press to a president in history.

But we are not done fighting. We’ve already filed a shareholder information demand and are sending a second demand today to uncover information about this decision. With that information, we will continue to pursue our legal options to stop this affront to Paramount shareholders, CBS journalists, and the First Amendment. Paramount directors should be held accountable and we will do all we can to make that happen.

FPF is a Paramount Global shareholder, and you can read our letter notifying Paramount of our plans to take legal action in the event of a settlement with Trump here. You can read a previous statement from our counsel here, and our recent demand for information to which we are entitled as shareholders here.

Please contact us if you would like further comment.

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Interested in what Immigration and Customs Enforcement is up to? Step right up to read ICE’s many press releases touting their accomplishments, watch Dr. Phil’s ICE ride-alongs on his new TV network, and, of course, follow ICE on social platform X.

Just don’t expect to read independent reporting about ICE activity — at least not if government officials get their way. Journalists and members of the public who report on ICE are increasingly under attack by officials who would prefer to silence them so government propaganda can fill the information void.

Threatening investigations on spurious grounds

The most recent example is the government’s attack on CNN for its reporting about an app called ICEBlock that alerts users to sightings of ICE agents nearby.

“Border czar” Tom Homan called on the Department of Justice to investigate CNN for its reporting, and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said her agency is working with the DOJ on a potential prosecution of CNN for “encouraging people to avoid law enforcement activities and operations.”

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt also accused CNN of inciting violence against ICE officers, despite no evidence that ICEBlock, let alone CNN’s reporting on it, has caused any violence.

An app that reports on the presence of law enforcement officers in public isn’t illegal. ICEBlock’s creator told CNN that its purpose is to help people “avoid interactions with ICE,” and many people have legitimate reasons to want to avoid ICE, even if they’re not in the country illegally. At the risk of stating the obvious, journalism about ICEBlock is also legal and protected by the First Amendment.

But none of that has stopped administration officials from making threats, probably with the hope of intimidating CNN and others from reporting on public efforts to counter ICE. They had to have known that their baseless accusations would lead to even more people finding out about ICEBlock. But this isn’t about ICEBlock, it’s about chilling journalism.

Opening baseless investigations

And officials haven’t stopped at just threatening investigations for reporting on ICE. In February, the Federal Communications Commission actually opened an investigation into a California radio station, KCBS, after it reported on ICE raids happening in San Jose.

FCC Chair Brendan Carr said that broadcasting the locations of ICE agents violates FCC rules requiring licensees to operate in the “public interest,” even though such reporting is constitutionally protected. The fact that KCBS is owned by a nonprofit controlled by Democratic megadonor George Soros surely didn’t endear the station to Carr either.

Again, the clear intent of this investigation — and others by the FCC — is to chill news outlets from reporting on ICE and other topics the administration would prefer they avoid. KCBS, for instance, apparently removed the news report on the San Jose raids from its website after the FCC announced its investigation.

Transforming ICE into secret police

Some Republicans in Congress seem to also want in on the secrecy, by turning ICE into the secret police.

In June, Sen. Marsha Blackburn introduced the “Protecting Law Enforcement from Doxxing Act,” a bill that would make it a crime to name a federal law enforcement officer, including ICE officers, in certain circumstances. Sen. Lindsey Graham joined as a co-sponsor of the bill after grandstanding on social media about the need for legislation to prohibit the disclosure of the identities of ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers.

While Blackburn’s bill requires the “intent to obstruct a criminal investigation or immigration enforcement operation” when naming an ICE officer, that will likely offer little protection when officials are constantly claiming that any public scrutiny of ICE obstructs its work. Those found guilty under the law could be imprisoned for five years.

ICE freezing out transparency

Finally, ICE itself is pushing for more and more secrecy. The agency often refuses or fails to respond to Freedom of Information Act requests, leading news outlets and other requesters to sue. It illegally attempted to curtail congressional visits to ICE facilities, and then apparently quickly and quietly rescinded that guidance.

In May, ICE asked the San Francisco Standard to blur the faces of ICE agents whose pictures were taken in public during an operation at a courthouse. The Standard refused and then reported on the request under the headline, “The ICE agents disappearing your neighbors would like a little privacy, please.”

Last week, ICE agents in New York reportedly harassed journalists attempting to cover immigration court proceedings, including by photographing their press credentials.

Perhaps most disturbingly, ICE is currently attempting to deport Mario Guevara, a journalist known for documenting immigration raids, after he was arrested on unjustified charges while covering a “No Kings” protest in Georgia. Guevara now faces the prospect of being returned to El Salvador, a country he left after receiving death threats for his reporting.

He’s been granted bond, but the government alarmingly argued that his livestreaming of a protest justifies deporting him because he publicized law enforcement activities (which is what journalists are supposed to do).

In addition to using deportations to punish reporting, the administration is also targeting opinion writing. It’s currently attempting to deport Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk over an op-ed she co-wrote.

These potential deportations send a chilling message to other journalists who’ve fled to the United States from repressive countries. As one reporter told The New Yorker about Guevara’s case, “Today, it was Mario, but tomorrow it could be any one of us.” And while noncitizen journalists are the easiest targets for now, it’s abundantly clear that the government would like to criminalize journalists it doesn’t like, regardless of the journalists’ residency status.

Yet many journalists — like those at the Standard — are refusing to be chilled. Reporters, many at smaller news outlets, have kept reporting on ICE raids in their communities, often relying on video or photos of ICE agents in public captured by the public and posted on social media—videos that Homan and Leavitt would probably claim should be illegal.

Continuing to report and inform the public is exactly the right response to the government’s attempts to intimidate the press from reporting on ICE. But journalists can’t push back on these chilling tactics alone.

“See something, say something” shouldn’t just be a motto for the security state. When you see these chilling tactics employed by the government against the free press, speak up against it—to other journalists, on op-ed pages and in letters to the editor, to ICE, to your state and local representatives, and to Congress.

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