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One thing is clear, Cisco is not afraid to use its considerable cash on hand to fill in holes in its product portfolio. Today it wrote out a big fat check for $1.9 billion to acquire BroadSoft, a Maryland company that delivers unified communicati… Continue reading Cisco scoops up BroadSoft for $1.9 billion to boost communications tools portfolio
600 gigabytes of information, including SQL database dumps, code, access logs, and customer information, belonging to BroadSoft and its client, TWC, was left online, accessible to anyone. Continue reading Four Million Time Warner Cable Records Left on Misconfigured AWS S3
Approximately 600 gigabytes of data containing 4 million records that held sensitive information on Time Warner Cable customers were mistakenly available to the public, a security firm discovered in August. Kromtech Security Center announced on Friday that it found two Amazon Web Services S3 bucket repositories containing private information but lacking a password. The buckets are likely connected to BroadSoft, Inc., an IT infrastructure firm active in 80 countries. The company is reportedly exploring a billion-dollar sale and its stock price is soaring. BroadSoft did not respond to a request for comment. The publicly available data spans from Nov. 2010 to July 2017. The trove contains access credentials, access logs, usernames, transaction IDs, MAC addresses, serial numbers, account numbers, billing addresses, phone numbers and more. Due to the “massive amount of sensitive information” in the repository, it would “take weeks to fully sort through all the data,” according to Kromtech’s researchers. “In this […]
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Approximately 600 gigabytes of data containing 4 million records that held sensitive information on Time Warner Cable customers were mistakenly available to the public, a security firm discovered in August. Kromtech Security Center announced on Friday that it found two Amazon Web Services S3 bucket repositories containing private information but lacking a password. The buckets are likely connected to BroadSoft, Inc., an IT infrastructure firm active in 80 countries. The company is reportedly exploring a billion-dollar sale and its stock price is soaring. BroadSoft did not respond to a request for comment. The publicly available data spans from Nov. 2010 to July 2017. The trove contains access credentials, access logs, usernames, transaction IDs, MAC addresses, serial numbers, account numbers, billing addresses, phone numbers and more. Due to the “massive amount of sensitive information” in the repository, it would “take weeks to fully sort through all the data,” according to Kromtech’s researchers. “In this […]
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