Collaborate Disseminate
As just one symptom, 83 percent of the Top 30 U.S. retailers have vulnerabilities which pose an “imminent” cyber-threat, including Amazon, Costco, Kroger and Walmart. Continue reading Record Levels of Software Bugs Plague Short-Staffed IT Teams in 2020
A too-large percentage of cloud databases containing highly sensitive information are publicly available, an analysis shows. Continue reading Google Cloud Buckets Exposed in Rampant Misconfiguration
Telmate, a company that facilitates monitored inmate communications with the outside world, has exposed a large database containing tens of millions of call logs, private messages, and personal information about inmates and their contacts. Bob Diachenk… Continue reading US Phone Service Exposes Millions of Messages Between Inmates and Their Friends and Families
The SBA said sensitive information about applicants may have been revealed to others applying for disaster loan program funds. Continue reading Small Businesses Tapping COVID-19 Loans Hit with Data Exposure
UK ISP and telecom provider Virgin Media has confirmed on Thursday that one of its unsecured marketing databases had been accessed by on at least one occasion without permission (though the extent of the access is still unknown). The database, containi… Continue reading Unsecured databases continue leaking millions of records
The trove of information is potentially a scammer’s bonanza. Continue reading Microsoft Leaves 250M Customer Service Records Open to the Web
When it comes to bouncing back, long-term impact to share prices from a data breach incident is significant on average for large companies. Continue reading ThreatList: Data Breaches Batter Stock Prices at Public Companies, For Months
Adobe has become the latest company to be caught leaving an Elasticsearch database full of customer data exposed on the internet. Continue reading Adobe database exposes 7.5 million Creative Cloud users
Comprehensive testing of 21 free Android antivirus apps revealed big security vulnerabilities and privacy concerns; especially AEGISLAB, BullGuard, dfndr and VIPRE. Continue reading Critical Bug in Android Antivirus Exposes Address Books
While the share prices of companies that experienced a sizeable/huge data breach suffer just a temporary hit, in the long term breached companies underperformed the market, an analysis by consumer tech product review and comparison site Comparitech has… Continue reading Data breaches make companies underperform the market in the long run