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Over a quarter of surveyed financial institutions reported that they were targeted by destructive cyberattacks over the past year, bent on completely destroying data. That’s according to a new Carbon Black report unveiled at RSA this year. The report, “Modern Read More …
A Dow Jones watchlist of more than 2.4 million entities that its clients should consider ‘high-risk’ has been inadvertently leaked to the public, thanks to an incorrectly configured and unsecured Elasticsearch database. The database, which was hosted on AWS, was discovered Read More …
Researchers have discovered that multiple airline e-ticketing systems do not encrypt check-in links. The security faux pas could allow bad actors on the same network as the victim to view – and in some cases even change – their flight Read More …
A security researcher resorted to a public tweet about a serious data breach involving customer data, after a South African electricity provider ignored all other pleas to resolve the leak. Security researcher Devin Stokes issued the public tweet to Eskom, which Read More …
Researchers have established that more than 600GB of personal information is circulating online after finding a monster cache of four additional ‘Collection’ folders. The Collection #1 leak discovered earlier this month was considered one of the largest leakages of personal Read More …
European aerospace corporation Airbus disclosed today a security breach that impacted its commercial aircraft manufacturing business. The company said the security breach “resulted in unauthorised access to data.” According to a press release published earlier today, Airbus said that “some personal data Read More …
LabKey Server version 18.3.0-61806.763, released on January 16, patches all three issues, so users should update as soon as possible. A trio of vulnerabilities in a popular open source medical data collaboration tool leaves important healthcare research data and potentially Read More …
The UK government should name and shame companies whose cyber security measures fail to protect consumers’ data, according to a new report from King’s College London’s Cyber Security Research Group, which promotes research into cyber security, and the Policy Institute, Read More …
Nearly 2.7 billion records containing up to 800 million unique email addresses and more than 21 million unique passwords have been compromised and published online. The massive data leak, dubbed Collection #1, is made up of individual breaches from “literally Read More …
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, Read More …
