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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2021 – 116 million records breached

IT Governance

For the second month in a row, ransomware has dominated our list of data breaches and cyber attacks. That partially explains why May’s total of 115,861,330 breached records is comparatively low. By contrast, we disclosed 1 billion breached records in April, and almost 4 billion in the first four months of the year.

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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

By some estimates, connected devices now outnumber people, and both are generating data. 16 ZB (zettabytes) of data in 2006, then 2.83 ZB in 2012, and the forecast is a mind-boggling 175 ZB by 2025! That is almost 2000 times more data in less than 20 years (Press 2013, Patrizio 2018). IDC estimated the world created.16

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

it was a multiple directory traversal vulnerability within GNU C Library that allows attackers to hack into git servers provided they were able to upload files there. In April 2012, Google announced ClusterFuzz, a cloud-based fuzzing infrastructure that is used for testing security-critical components of the Chromium web browser.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

it was a multiple directory traversal vulnerability within GNU C Library that allows attackers to hack into git servers provided they were able to upload files there. In April 2012, Google announced ClusterFuzz, a cloud-based fuzzing infrastructure that is used for testing security-critical components of the Chromium web browser.