IT Governance

APRIL 16, 2018

Cryptojacking is when cryptocurrency miners are delivered through malware, using a computer’s processing power to illicitly mine cryptocurrency. Cloud security. The report states that only 40% of the data that is stored in the Cloud is actually access secured. Data breaches. Cryptojacking.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Feedify cloud service architecture compromised by MageCart crime gang. Flaw in Western Digital My Cloud exposes the content to hackers. US State Department confirms data breach to unclassified email system. Ngrok Mining Botnet. 20% discount. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy. Once again thank you!

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 11, 2018

As I was starting to write this blog, yet another retail program data breach occurred, for Marriott’s Starwood loyalty program. Since in Tech we often travel “for a living”, I found in my bag an older Starwood preferred guest card. This had me asking a simple question – Why? Doing the math perhaps?

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2021

Many of the high-profile breaches making headlines today are the by-product of hackers pounding away at Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) until they find a crease that gets them into the pathways of the data flowing between an individual user and myriad cloud-based resources. Dinner bell rings.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Spirent refers to this as “data breach emulation,’’ something David DeSanto, Spirent’s threat research director, told me is designed to give companyies a great advantage; it makes it possible to see precisely how the latest ransomware or crypto mining malware would impact a specific network, with all of its quirky complexity.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

This week, we discuss a data breach at Mumsnet, no data breach at OkCupid, and a lawsuit against Apple for implementing security measures. The parenting forum Mumsnet has notified users of a data breach after a system update resulted in some account holders being signed in to others’ accounts.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 24, 2018

Question: Can you provide an overview of the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Edition, and elaborate why it’s needed today more than ever? Our 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Edition , issued in conjunction with analyst firm 451 Research, polled U.S. I think it’s worth further expanding on our cloud technology findings.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 15, 2020

It's about a data breach with almost 90GB of personal information in it across tens of millions of records - including mine. Here's what I know: Back in Feb, Dehashed reached out to me with a massive trove of data that had been left exposed on a major cloud provider via a publicly accessible Elasticsearch instance.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rising implementations of cloud services and IoT systems, not to mention the arrival of 5G, has quickened the pace of software development and multiplied data handling complexities. In this milieu, even well-defended enterprises continue to suffer catastrophic data breaches. Just ask Capital One , Marriott or Equifax.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 30, 2019

Thompson on suspicion of downloading nearly 30 GB of Capital One credit application data from a rented cloud data server. That data included approximately 140,000 Social Security numbers and approximately 80,000 bank account numbers on U.S. The tip that alerted Capital One to its data breach.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

This means imaging the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computing model to deliver transformative change. Gartner (2021) has two related definitions: Digital Transformation: “can refer to anything from IT modernization (for example, cloud computing), to digital optimization, to the invention of new digital business models.”

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 1, 2018

Every time an alias on one of their domains is seen in a new data breach or a paste, the incident is automatically posted to them. As part of that service, they'll also be using the existing notification service that commercial subscribers have access to.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 12, 2018

Merriam-Webster defines big data as “an accumulation of data that is too large and complex for processing by traditional database management tools.” This is how big data analytics is enabling behavioral biometric-authentication mechanisms.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 16, 2024

Excessive access: Provides attackers with access to cloud environments via Ray root access or Kubernetes clusters because of embedded API administrator permissions. Hijacked compute: Repurposes expensive AI compute power for attackers’ needs, primarily cryptojacking, which mines for cryptocurrencies on stolen resources.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 29, 2019

At first glance, August has been a quiet month for data breaches, with a total of 114,686,290 breached records. But that figure comes from 95 incidents in total, which is the highest number of breaches we’ve had all year. Let’s take a look at those breaches in full in our slightly tweaked monthly list. Ransomware.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Many people will land on this page after learning that their email address has appeared in a data breach I've called "Collection #1". It's made up of many different individual data breaches from literally thousands of different sources. That's the numbers, let's move onto where the data has actually come from.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Here are a few key takeaways: Cool new experiences Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Alibaba Cloud supply computer processing and data storage as a utility. DevOps has decentralized the creation and delivery of smart applications that can mine humongous data sets to create cool new user experiences.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 27, 2022

From smart cities and digital IDs to open government and better governance, the Cloud, Big Data, IoT and Artificial Intelligence have enabled a wide range of digital government initiatives. Cloud adoption, essential for convenient services and efficient collaboration, is widespread and growing fast. Cloud Security.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

With that an attacker couldn't necessarily intercept the data, but they could query the peloton API to get user data that they weren't supposed to. In other words, Peloton suffered from an API vulnerability that could potentially lead to a massive data breach. Okay, that's starting to get very personal.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

With that an attacker couldn't necessarily intercept the data, but they could query the peloton API to get user data that they weren't supposed to. In other words, Peloton suffered from an API vulnerability that could potentially lead to a massive data breach. Okay, that's starting to get very personal.

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Authentication Communications IoT Security 52

Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Here goes: Last week, someone reached it to me with what they claimed was a Spoutible data breach obtained by exploiting an enumerable API. Online security, technology and “The Cloud” Australian.", ” This one, as far as infosec stories go, had me leaning and muttering like never before.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Organizations must practice incident response if they want to stop data breaches and cyberattacks. Data breaches: A data breach occurs when unauthorized individuals gain access to sensitive data, such as personal information, credit card or other payment information, and intellectual property.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2022

Many of the basic principles for securing a data lake will be familiar to anyone who has secured a cloud security storage container. Of course, since most commercial data lakes build off of existing cloud infrastructure, this should be the case.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Like other competitive GRC solutions, it speeds the process of aggregating and mining data, building reports, and managing files. Otherwise, you may be faced with costly data breaches, operational failure, or regulation non-compliance. Its features include: Enterprise risk management. IT governance and security.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 24, 2023

An increase in devices connecting to individual applications, the rise of cloud computing and the development of new products have led companies to invest in digital services to meet customer needs. The increasing complexity of IT systems has created a need for organizations to monitor and analyze data better to make more informed decisions.

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Analytics IT Big data Cloud 54

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Like other competitive GRC solutions, it speeds the process of aggregating and mining data, building reports, and managing files. Otherwise, you may be faced with costly data breaches, operational failure, or regulation non-compliance. Its features include: Enterprise risk management. IT governance and security.

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Compliance Risk Government Retail 57

Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2020

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Most organizations express confidence in their current status and budgets, but also expect to experience at least one data breach in 2024. Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2021

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 15, 2023

Here's mine: One of the problems the dashboard approach helps tackle is unsubscribing on an individual domain basis. Just add more cloud! More data equals more processing equals more egress bandwidth equals more latency and more cost. Need more resources? Job done, next problem.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

So perhaps Bitcoin mining Well, cryptocurrency mining was in their mind. For the hacker mine I remain your war dialing buddy Robert from. Léveillé: That 's it's possible that they were trying to do with Kobalos. But also the available resources on those machines were quite considerable.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 10, 2019

Back in 2013, I was beginning to get the sense that data breaches were becoming a big thing. Increasingly, I was writing about what I thought was a pretty fascinating segment of the infosec industry; password reuse across Gawker and Twitter resulting in a breach of the former sending Acai berry spam via the latter.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 27, 2019

fewer of you to go around because at this moment in history everyone understands that a good CISO is critical to the ongoing success of an enterprise (the 2019 IBM Cost of Data Breach study found that the average cost to an organization was $3.92 The cloud will leak. I just mean there will be a shortage of experts–i.e.,

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