A hotel check-in system left a million passports and driver’s licenses open for anyone to see

A hotel check-in system left more than 1 million customer passports, driver’s licenses, and selfie verification photos to the open web after a security lapse. The data is now offline after TechCrunch alerted the company responsible. The hotel check-in system, called Read More …

Inside AD CS Escalation: Unpacking Advanced Misuse Techniques and Tools

Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) is a foundational component of Windows enterprise infrastructure, responsible for managing public key infrastructure (PKI) and issuing certificates that enable authentication and encryption across networks. Despite its critical role in the enterprise identity infrastructure, Read More …

UK: Hundreds of residents’ details shared in data breach

A council chief has apologised after hundreds of residents’ sensitive data was mistakenly shared online. Some names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of 625 people who responded to South Gloucestershire Council’s consultation on 24 October were published online for Read More …

EY exposes 4TB+ SQL database to open internet for who knows how long

A Dutch cybersecurity outfit says its lead researcher recently stumbled upon a 4TB+ SQL Server backup file belonging to EY exposed to the web, effectively leaking the accounting and consulting megacorp’s secrets. Among the BAK file’s data were API keys, Read More …

Health insurance firm Blue Shield data breach exposed data of over 4.7 million members

Health insurance firm Blue Shield has revealed a data breach has exposed protected health data of over 4.7 million members. The information was leaked to Google’s analytics and advertisement platforms following a misconfiguration of Google analytics on Blue Shield sites. Read More …

Why Cloud Misconfigurations Remain A Top Cause Of Data Breaches

It’s 2025, and the industry has built some of the most advanced cloud environments ever seen—automated deployments, real-time threat detection and infrastructure that scales with just a few lines of code. Yet, data breaches aren’t slowing down—why? Because a single Read More …