Collaborate Disseminate
Chris Morris – writing at Fortune, harsh’s my mid-week mellow with a report on the latest data loss outrage. Bad news for oldster’s, given that (reportedly) the database contains data on 40+ year olds and older. h/t
“Among the data included on the 24… Continue reading Latest Data Loss Outrage
For the enterprise responsible for protecting customers’ PII, should passwords be stored at all — even encrypted?
The post Are Companies Doing Enough to Secure PII? I Spoke With Security Expert Frank Abagnale to Find Out appeared first on Security Intelligence.
There’s no good time to be hit by ransom-seeking DDoS attackers. For one casino-entertainment provider, the timing was particularly bad — right before one of its largest online poker events in 2016. The casino, which generates multiple bill… Continue reading Casino Goes All In and Wins Big with Imperva Security
Not a week goes without a new Facebook blunder.
Remember the most recent revelation of Facebook being caught asking users new to the social network platform for their email account passwords to verify their identity?
At the time, it was suspected tha… Continue reading Facebook Collected Contacts from 1.5 Million Email Accounts Without Users’ Permission
An unprotected database belonging to JustDial, India’s largest local search service, is leaking personally identifiable information of its every customer in real-time who accessed the service via its website, mobile app, or even by calling on its fancy… Continue reading Over 100 Million JustDial Users’ Personal Data Found Exposed On the Internet
In today’s world, data plays a crucial role in the success of any organization, but if left unprotected, it could be a cybercriminal’s dream come true.
Poorly protected MongoDB, CouchDB, and Elasticsearch databases recently got a lot more attention fr… Continue reading Thousands of Unprotected Kibana Instances Exposing Elasticsearch Databases
Healthcare security is going to play a huge role if the utopian vision of a purely digital healthcare ecosystem is going to be realized.
The post The US Is Slow to Adopt EHRs, But That Might Actually Be a Good Thing for Healthcare Security appeared first on Security Intelligence.
A company with access to the Dow Jones Watchlist of risky people and businesses left it on a public AWS server without a password. Continue reading Dow Jones Watchlist of risky businesses exposed on public server
Most database breaches are blamed on insiders such as employees who are either malicious or whose security has been compromised. In fact, most of these breaches are actually caused by poor security configuration and privilege abuse. Every new database … Continue reading Seven Must-Dos to Secure MySQL 8.0
A massive government data belonging to the Oklahoma Department of Securities (ODS) was left unsecured on a storage server for at least a week, exposing a whopping 3 terabytes of data containing millions of sensitive files.
The unsecured storage server… Continue reading Unprotected Government Server Exposes Years of FBI Investigations