| Date | Title | Description |
| 02.05.2024 | Aikido: The Rising Star in Developer Security | Aikido, a small startup from Ghent, Belgium, is making waves in the developer security space with its 'no BS' platform. In a world where every startup holds valuable customer data, developers are faced with the daunting task of ensuring the... |
| 01.05.2024 | Belgium’s Aikido lands $17M Series A for its ‘no BS’ security platform aimed at developers | Developers have a problem. It used to be the case that only large enterprises needed to worry themselves with security, but today, every startup is capable of holding huge amounts of customer data. That means developers across the board hav... |
| 30.04.2024 | Researchers uncover servers filled with government secrets | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Databases storing approximately 550 gigabytes of secret data from a government artificial intelligence contractor were exposed on the internet until the end of last month, according to a report releas... |
| 02.02.2024 | OT Network Segmentation: 4 Impacts & 5 Challenges in ‘24 | Figure 1: OT network segmentation1
Statistics show that the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is expected to nearly double, from ~15 billion in 2020 to more than 29 billion by 2030.2
The increased number of IT and OT systems expand... |
| 14.11.2023 | Blockchain.com $110M funding round halves its 2022 valuation: Report
Delaware authorities refer fake BlackRock XRP trust filing to state’s Justice Department
How this all-in-one app bridges the gap ... | Crypto exchange and wallet provider Blockchain.com closed a $110-million Series E financing round, an investment that more than halves its previous 2022 valuation of $14 billion.
In a Nov. 14 blog post, Blockchain.com said the closing of it... |
| 14.11.2023 | Uniswap launches Android wallet app with built-in swap function
Animoca eyes SportFi ecosystem, becomes Chiliz Chain validator
Privacy-first, copyright-friendly content is key to driving Web3 adopti... | Uniswap Labs has publicly released an Andriod mobile wallet app with built-in swap capability on the Google Play store.
The new app allows users to make swaps through the decentralized exchange (DEX) from within the app, eliminating the nee... |
| 08.11.2023 | Data Risks Using Cloud-Based HR Software | Carl Williams, Tech Times 08 November 2023, 10:11 pm
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Cloud-based HR systems hold the keys to the kingdom—your employees' most sensitive information is unlocked with the click of a mouse. But when those castle... |
| 04.11.2023 | А был ли баг? Может бага и не было? Зачем, как и чем тестировать PHP код | В статье рассмотрим основные подходы к тестированию бэкенда на PHP, обсудим преимущества и проблемы, связанные с этим процессом. Также узнаем о методах обнаружения и устранения багов, инструментах и книгах для более глубокого изучения тести... |
| 18.10.2023 | What Australian IT Leaders Need to Focus on Ahead of Privacy Act Reforms | Sonia Sharma, Maddocks partner
Australian organisations are showing varying levels of preparedness when it comes to data privacy, with Maddocks partner Sonia Sharma saying they need to get ahead of legislative change because the conversatio... |
| 02.08.2023 | UpGuard Achieves Certification for TX-RAMP (Texas Risk and Authorization Management Program) | “Achieving TX-RAMP certification reflects the strict security standards embedded into our processes, products, and infrastructure at UpGuard,” said Kaushik Sen, Chief Marketing Officer at UpGuard.
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| 09.06.2023 | BBC, British Airways, Boots hit with hackers’ ultimatum after suffering MOVEit supply-chain attack | Image: SomYuZu/Adobe Stock
British Airways, BBC and Boots have all been served an ultimatum after they were hit with a supply-chain attack by the ransomware group Clop. In a post made available on their dark web portal, the cybercrime group... |
| 19.04.2023 | Cybersecurity Report: S&P 500 Security Trends and Improvements | S&P 500 Security Report “As the United States ranked as the world’s third most-breached country in 2022, it’s reassuring to see that S&P 500 companies are adopting a more proactive approach to protecting their sensitive data,” said ... |
| 10.03.2023 | Navigating Salesforce Threats: Your Largest Container of Data | Customer records, financial information, personally identifiable information (PII) — Salesforce is the virtual motherlode of data prized by cybercriminals. To properly guard your Salesforce data, you must be on the lookout for potential thr... |
| 15.02.2023 | Cybersecurity Report: 64% of Australia’s Top Companies At Higher Risk of Ransomware Attacks | “The devastating impact of the Optus and Medibank ransomware attacks in 2022 is a rude awaking that Australian companies must mitigate all areas of their cybersecurity risk to avoid facing a similar fate,” said Kaushik Sen, Chief Marketing ... |
| 09.01.2023 | Data Privacy Vs. Data Security: Four Implications For Business Leaders | Jackie Shoback is cofounder and managing director of 1414 Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund focused on digital identity. |
| 19.12.2022 | G2 Names Winter 2023 Leaders: UpGuard Tops Third Party & Supplier Risk Management Category | UpGuard rated #1 Third Party & Supplier Risk Management Software in G2’s Winter 2023 Reports “Being recognized twice by G2 as a Market Leader in this space demonstrates that our customers consistently find value in UpGuard’s comprehensi... |
| 28.11.2022 | UpGuard Named a Representative Vendor in 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for IT Vendor Risk Management (VRM) Solutions | “Our customers value the ability to gain instant risk insights, continuously monitor their vendors, and maintain an effective third-party risk assessment framework all within the UpGuard platform," said Kaushik Sen, Chief Marketing Off... |
| 30.10.2022 | Tech talent migrates to Web3 as large companies face layoffs
FTX CEO dissects Mark Zuckerberg’s intent to pump $10B/year into Meta
Championing Web3 features in role-playing games — Here's why it mat... | As inflation continues to grow, coupled with a looming recession, many tech firms are having to cut portions of their staff. To put this in perspective, data from Layoffs.fyi found that over 700 tech startups have experienced layoffs this y... |
| 27.10.2022 | Asset management firm launches BTC Lightning Network startup accelerator
Hong Kong could be key for China’s crypto comeback — Arthur Hayes
Blockchain embraces gold to provide stability and growth fo... | Asset management firm Stone Ridge, the parent company of Bitcoin company NYDIG, has launched the first startup accelerator that focuses on the Bitcoin Lightning Network and the Taro protocol, called In Wolf’s Clothing (Wolf).
The accelerato... |
| 10.10.2022 | G2 Latest Reports Are Out: UpGuard Recognized as Market Leader in Third Party & Supplier Risk Management | UpGuard named a leader in G2 Fall 2022 report “Being recognized as a G2 Market Leader reflects ongoing product improvements to meet our customers’ changing needs in the third-party risk landscape,” said Kaushik Sen, Chief Marketing Officer.... |
| 06.09.2022 | The 2022 Cybersecurity Spending Survey Results Are In: Cybersecurity Budgets Are Increasing, Third-Party Risk Is The Top Risk Factor | 2022 Cybersecurity Spending Survey "In a threat landscape where cyber attacks occur daily, businesses are prioritizing budget for their cybersecurity defenses,” said Chief Marketing Officer, Kaushik Sen. "We're glad our customers ... |
| 06.09.2022 | 4 tactics for building robust open source DevOps toolsets | Arul Jegadish Contributor
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Arul Jegadish, co-founder of OpsVerse, has spent the last decade building OSS DevOps pipelines.
The DevOps methodology is becoming mainstream for good reason: 99% of practitioners say it has posi... |
| 09.08.2022 | Чек-лист для стартапов: 12 шагов к соблюдению GDPR | Содержание:
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Проведите аудит данных
Ограничьте сбор данных через контактные формы
Предоставьте формы для активного с... |
| 08.07.2022 | Real-world evidence must not become evidence for abortion-related prosecution | The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn federal protection for abortion changed in an instant how many people think about pregnancy. But it is also changing how health systems need to think about their current and future sharing and moneti... |
| 07.07.2022 | Over 70% of Small Businesses Fail to Prioritize Cybersecurity | Cybersecurity threats are a ticking timebomb for many companies, and yet small businesses don’t see it as a main budget priority, an exclusive Tech.co report has revealed.
With cyberattacks on the rise and the average cost of an attack in t... |
| 15.04.2022 | Ansible vs Concourse: DevOps tools comparison | Image: gorodenkoff, Getty Images/iStockphoto
Software development teams have ample choices for DevOps project management tools. While this helps professionals find solutions that fit their specific needs, it also makes it harder to narrow d... |
| 18.01.2022 | What exactly is Web3? | Venture capitalists (VCs) and investors in Silicon Valley are saying the internet will evolve to become a place where users will be able to run their own servers, control how their data is used and shared by third parties, own digital prope... |
| 22.11.2021 | US education software company exposed personal data of 1.2M students | SmarterSelect, a U.S.-based company that provides software for managing the application process for scholarships, exposed the personal data of thousands of applicants because of a misconfigured Google Cloud Storage bucket.
The data spill, d... |
| 13.10.2021 | UpGuard Appoints Casey Altieri as Vice President of Sales North America, Positioning Company to Drive Continued Growth In Region | Casey’s expertise as a sales professional and deep knowledge of high-growth start-up environments will be invaluable to our North American sales team.
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| 22.09.2021 | 10% of early-stage startups working on blockchain: GSER 2021
Bitcoin miner Genesis Digital Assets raises $431M
Championing Web3 features in role-playing games — Here's why it matters
Nifty News: Sn... | With venture capital funding seemingly prioritizing emerging technology, the blockchain industry experiences a significant influx of capital from corporate backers.
According to the Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2021 published on Wednesda... |
| 16.09.2021 | ExpressVPN Acquired by Cybersecurity Firm for Nearly $1 Billion | It's been a big week for (almost) billion dollar deals, as ExpressVPN has officially been acquired by Kape Technologies to the tune of $936 million.
Cybersecurity has become a major priority for individuals and businesses alike, with securi... |
| 31.08.2021 | UpGuard Announces Regional Expansion Into India | We are very excited to continue building a team in this region and to partner with businesses to ensure that they scale securely.
SYDNEY (PRWEB) August 31, 2021
UpGuard, the third-party risk and attack surface management platform, today ann... |
| 26.08.2021 | Личные данные 38 млн пользователей Microsoft Power App оказались в открытом доступе | Специалисты UpGuard, работающей в сфере информационной безопасности, сообщили о 47 частных компаниях и правительственных организациях, которые не закрыли доступ к данным своих клиентов. В их число входят власти штатов Индиана, Мэриленд, Нью... |
| 24.08.2021 | Microsoft Power Apps misconfiguration exposes data from 38 million records | Image: Microsoft
A lack of proper security configuration with Microsoft’s Power Apps has led to the exposure of data from some 38 million records, according to security firm UpGuard. In a report published Monday, UpGuard said that the misco... |
| 24.08.2021 | 38 million records exposed online—including contact-tracing info | Enlarge
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| 05.08.2021 | Crypto analytics firm Messari concludes $21M Series A led by Point72 Ventures
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says proposed crypto tax rule makes no sense
Blockchain embraces gold to provide stability ... | Cryptocurrency market intelligence provider Messari has concluded a $21 million fundraise that was supported by some of the biggest venture firms in blockchain, once again highlighting growing investor appetite for budding crypto startups.
... |
| 21.07.2021 | Report: Over 36.3% of Australia’s Top Companies Had An Open Data Leak in 2021 | The extreme growth in data leaks with smaller organizations but the simultaneous overall improvement in measured security ratings show us that the issue of data security is becoming more acute for all businesses, but that there is relative ... |
| 15.06.2021 | UpGuard Awarded as Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum | SYDNEY, Australia (PRWEB) June 15, 2021
The World Economic Forum announced its selection of the 100 most promising Technology Pioneers of 2021 - companies that are shaping industries from healthcare to retail and many more.
This year’s coho... |
| 09.06.2021 | UpGuard Raises $19M in Series B-1 Funding | UpGuard, a Mountain View, CA- and Sydney, Australia-based third-party risk and attack surface management platform, completed a $19m ($25 million AUD) Series B-1 funding round.
Backers included existing investors IAG Firemark Ventures, the c... |
| 19.05.2021 | Cybercrime is thriving during the pandemic, driven by surge in phishing and ransomware | Cybercriminals ransomed millions of dollars from businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, using time-tested tactics like phishing, social engineering and other hacker tools of the trade.
For companies, the average cost of a data breach soar... |
| 19.04.2021 | Джинн из бутылки: почему Facebook постоянно теряет данные пользователей | Николай Чикишев 19 апреля 2021, 18:55 Джинн из бутылки: почему Facebook постоянно теряет данные пользователей
Каждый год в интернете происходит громкий скандал, связанный с обширной утечкой данных в Facebook. Ни громадные штрафы, ни ужесточ... |
| 05.04.2021 | Data for more than 500 million Facebook accounts surfaces on hacker site | Details from more than 500 million Facebook accounts have been found available on a website for hackers. The information appears to be several years old, but it is another example of the vast amount of information collected by the company a... |
| 02.03.2021 | UpGuard Report Exposes Security Risks In Public Documents | SYDNEY (PRWEB) March 02, 2021
UpGuard, the third-party risk and attack surface management platform, today published a study identifying an overlooked threat to Fortune 500 companies: public documents and PDFs. This study, conducted by the U... |
| 16.02.2021 | UpGuard Launches CyberResearch Managed Service For Third Party Risk Management and Data Leak Detection | CyberResearch is UpGuard’s solution to the cybersecurity talent gap, offering customers an effective way to leverage the expertise of our team and the power of our technology.
SYDNEY (PRWEB) February 16, 2021
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| 05.02.2021 | Join Top Cybersecurity Industry Leaders at UpGuard Summit 2021 | The CyberResearch product is bringing a new solution to the market, connecting organizations and their vendors to data leak analysts.
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| 24.08.2020 | Cloudera pulls sensitive files from its ‘open by design’ cloud servers | Enterprise cloud giant Cloudera has pulled several of its cloud storage servers offline, despite initially claiming the servers were “open by design,” after a security researcher found sensitive internal files inside.
Chris Vickery, directo... |
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| 30.07.2020 | Facebook data privacy scandal: A cheat sheet | A decade of apparent indifference for data privacy at Facebook has culminated in revelations that organizations harvested user data for targeted advertising, particularly political advertising, to apparent success. While the most well-known... |
| 19.06.2020 | Weekly Wrap #7: Another Day, Another Virus | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
While in the throes of writing this week's wrap on Friday morning, Prime Minister Scott Morrison appeared ... |
| 02.06.2020 | Researchers find exposed data on millions of users of quiz app, TVSmiles | TVSmiles, a Berlin-based mobile native advertising app whose users earn digital currency in exchange for engaging with branded content such as quizzes, apps and videos, has suffered a data breach.
Security researcher UpGuard disclosed in a ... |
| 30.03.2020 | Security lapse exposed Republican voter firm’s internal app code | A voter contact and canvassing company, used exclusively by Republican political campaigns, mistakenly left an unprotected copy of its app’s code on its website for anyone to find.
The company, Campaign Sidekick, helps Republican campaigns ... |
| 23.03.2020 | Celo’s Blockchain Accelerator Invites Devs to Compete for $25K
Over 172 Million Weibo Users' Personal Data Is For Sale on Dark Web
Championing Web3 features in role-playing games — Here's why it mat... | Open-source project Celo is calling on blockchain innovators to participate in CeloCamp, an entrepreneurial initiative that seeks to highlight the potential of global financial inclusion, mass adoption of digital money and the acceleration ... |
| 27.11.2019 | Brexit ad blitz data firm paid by Vote Leave broke privacy laws, watchdogs find | A joint investigation by watchdogs in Canada and British Columbia has found that Cambridge Analytica-linked data firm, Aggregate IQ, broke privacy laws in Facebook ad-targeting work it undertook for the official Vote Leave Brexit campaign i... |
| 19.09.2019 | Data from Nokia's interception kit for Russian telcos exposed | Nokia has been left red-faced after an employee handed over 1.7 terabytes of sensitive infrastructure data for telcos the company works with in the Russian Federation to an unnamed third-party, who the left the information unprotected and o... |
| 18.09.2019 | Documents reveal how Russia taps phone companies for surveillance | In cities across Russia, large boxes in locked rooms are directly connected to the networks of some of the country’s largest phone and internet companies.
These boxes, some the size of a washing machine, house equipment that gives the Russi... |
| 06.08.2019 | Democratic Senate campaign group exposed 6.2 million Americans’ emails | A political campaign group working to elect Democratic senators left on an exposed server a spreadsheet containing the email addresses of 6.2 million Americans.
Data breach researchers at security firm UpGuard found the data in late July, a... |
| 16.05.2019 | Status update: How Facebook is dealing with a year's worth of crises | Challenges for Facebook a year after scandal 05:20
A full year after the Cambridge Analytica scandal pushed Facebook's data-gathering practices into the spotlight, the social network is still struggling to show it can take users' privacy se... |
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| 05.04.2019 | It Hasn’t Been a Good Week for Social Media | For Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and the other social media giants, barely a day passes without a negative news story written about them.
This week, however, has been a bad week for the ages. The various social media platforms and ... |
| 04.04.2019 | Hundreds of millions of Facebook user records were exposed on Amazon cloud server | More than 540 million records about Facebook users were publicly exposed on Amazon's cloud computing service, according to a cybersecurity research firm. A report out Wednesday by UpGuard said two third-party Facebook app developers posted ... |
| 04.04.2019 | Facebook Data Of Millions Leaks Yet Again, This Time Via Amazon | Researchers from the UpGuard Cyber Risk team now say that they recently discovered as much as 146 gigabytes of Facebook user data exposed to the public internet via Amazon servers in one of two separate leaks. Representing the larger of the... |
| 04.04.2019 | Data of 540 million Facebook users exposed in latest privacy cock-up | It is only a couple of weeks since we learned that Facebook has been storing user passwords in searchable plain text, and now there is -- yet another -- privacy scandal. This time, the private data of over half a billion Facebook users was ... |
| 04.04.2019 | 540 млн записей пользователей Facebook оказались в открытом доступе | Александра Кукуть 4 апреля 2019, 11:19 540 млн записей пользователей Facebook оказались в открытом доступе
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| 04.04.2019 | 540 milhões de dados de usuários do Facebook foram expostos na internet | Se 2018 foi um ano ruim para o Facebook, 2019 não vem sendo melhor: a empresa de segurança digital UpGuard reportou nesta semana a descoberta de duas bases de dados com informações pessoais de usuários da rede social. Ambas podiam ser acess... |
| 03.04.2019 | Facebook asked some users for their email passwords, because why not | Enlarge / Sorry.
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| 03.04.2019 | Over 540 million Facebook user records leaked by third parties | In what has become a depressingly common refrain for the social network behemoth, Facebook user data has once again been left exposed to the public. According to researchers at security firm UpGuard, the first of the two data sets originate... |
| 03.04.2019 | Researchers find 540 million Facebook user records on exposed servers | Security researchers have found hundreds of millions of Facebook user records sitting on an inadvertently public storage server.
The two batches of user records were collected and exposed from two third-party companies, according to researc... |
| 27.02.2019 | Dow Jones’ watchlist of 2.4 million high-risk individuals has leaked | A watchlist of risky individuals and corporate entities owned by Dow Jones has been exposed, after a company with access to the database left it on a server without a password.
Bob Diachenko, an independent security researcher, found the Am... |
| 19.12.2018 | 4 Things Spotify Can Teach You About Data Sharing | At media companies, 2018 might be remembered as the year that someone finally got data sharing right.
To be sure, there were some missteps. Facebook’s series of data scandals cost the social network around a quarter of its value. But Twitte... |
| 23.10.2018 | A Washington ISP exposed the ‘keys to the kingdom’ after leaving a server unsecured | A Washington state internet provider left an unprotected server online without a password, exposing network schematics, passwords and other sensitive files for at least six months.
Worse, it took the company a week to shut off the leak, des... |
| 03.10.2018 | Northwest fast food chain hack exposed customer credit cards | A beloved regional burger chain in the Pacific Northwest is the latest fast food company to suffer a major data breach.
Burgerville, headquartered in Vancouver, Wash., disclosed today that any customers who used a credit or debit card from ... |
| 23.08.2018 | Millions of Texas voter records exposed online | A massive trove of voter records containing personal information on millions of Texas residents has been found online.
The data — a single file containing an estimated 14.8 million records — was left on an unsecured server without a passwor... |
| 23.08.2018 | Attempted DNC voter database hack was a false alarm, security chief says | An apparent hacking attempt on the Democratic National Committee’s voter database was a false alarm, the organization has said.
CNN and the Associated Press reported on Wednesday, citing an unnamed party official, that the political organiz... |
| 10.08.2018 | GoDaddy internal systems data exposed in AWS security error | Domain registrar and web-hosting company GoDaddy has seen details leaked of its cloud infrastructure in an unsecured Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket - with AWS accused of a configuration error exposing the data.
The completely unsecured... |
| 23.07.2018 | Секретные данные крупных автопроизводителей попали в свободный доступ | Отдел новостей 23 июля 2018, 13:06 Секретные данные крупных автопроизводителей попали в свободный доступ
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| 20.07.2018 | Data breach exposes trade secrets of carmakers GM, Ford, Tesla, Toyota | Security researcher UpGuard Cyber Risk disclosed Friday that sensitive documents from more than 100 manufacturing companies, including GM, Fiat Chrysler, Ford, Tesla, Toyota, ThyssenKrupp, and VW were exposed on a publicly accessible server... |
| 19.04.2018 | User data firm exposes 48m records in S3 bucket | A firm that built 48 million psychographic profiles of individuals for the purpose of targeted advertising left them sitting in a publicly-accessible S3 bucket, according to security researchers.
The latest misconfiguration bungle involved ... |
| 29.11.2017 | US Intel Community now uses AWS’ Cloud-Based ‘Secret Region’ | Only two weeks after ‘dozens of terabytes’ of US military intel stored on AWS was left open to the public, Amazon has launched a new dedicated cloud region to service the United States’ intelligence community (IC).
Titled ‘Secret Region’, t... |
| 29.11.2017 | US intel agency leaked classified info via AWS S3 | A United States joint intelligence agency stored sensitive material on an Amazon Web Services cloud storage facility without any access controls, sparking concerns that classified material may have leaked to unknown parties.
Security vendor... |
| 29.11.2017 | Government Exposes Documents Detailing Sensitive NSA Software, Surveillance Programs | Another leak is causing some headaches for the NSA. Still reeling from the worldwide exposure of one of its exploit hoards, along with documents handed over to journalists by Ed Snowden (and unnamed others), the NSA’s latest embarrassment i... |
| 28.11.2017 | Researcher discovers classified Army intel app, data on open public AWS bucket | "Let me just pull all that TS/NOFORN stuff out of that public AWS bucket..."
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| 28.11.2017 | Security researcher finds classified US Army data sitting online with no password | In the latest edition of “uh-oh, we left that just sitting out in the open,” a batch of NSA and Army files were discovered on a cloud storage server with no password protection, accessible to anyone with the URL. Chris Vickery of security f... |
| 20.11.2017 | Pentagon exposed huge internet surveillance data cache | The US Department of Defense is the latest high-profile entity to leak vast amounts of information via unprotected Amazon Web Services cloud storage.
Security vendor UpGuard found three large information repositories left wide open in the A... |
| 18.11.2017 | Pentagon contractor leaves social media spy archive wide open on Amazon | Wikipedia reader comments 136 with 92 posters participating
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| 17.11.2017 | Defense Department Spied On Social Media, Left All Its Collected Data Exposed To Anyone | There are two big WTFs in this story. First, the Defense Departments Central Command (Centcom) was collecting tons of data on social media posts… and then the bigger one, they somehow left all the data they collected open on an Amazon AWS s... |
| 11.10.2017 | Accenture exposed by misconfigured AWS storage | Accenture is the latest big firm found to be operating misconfigured Amazon S3 storage buckets, exposing security credentials and customer information in the process.
Security researchers at UpGuard - which discovered other similar incident... |
| 20.09.2017 | Viacom left keys to its kingdom exposed on AWS | Security researchers have found yet another unprotected corporate Amazon Web Services Simple Storage Service (S3) data trove, this time belonging to Viacom, with a full set login credentials for the media giant and its subsidiaries.
Viacom ... |
| 19.07.2017 | AWS warns users about open S3 buckets | Amazon Web Services is contacting customers with S3 buckets that are configured to be freely accessed by anyone on the internet to review access controls following the leak of two million Dow Jones user details.
This week cyber security fir... |
| 13.07.2017 | Millions of Verizon customer details exposed on misconfigured Amazon S3 server | A third-party vendor working with American telco giant Verizon left the data of as many as 14 million United States customers exposed on a misconfigured server, a security researcher has discovered.
Security vendor UpGuard researcher Chris ... |
| 13.07.2017 | Private Data Of 6 Million Verizon Users Left Openly Accessible On The Internet | Yet another company has been caught leaving personal customer data just sitting on an openly-accessible server for anybody to obtain and abuse. According to Upguard and security researcher Chris Vickery, the data was being stored by Nice Sy... |
| 13.07.2017 | Verizon wasn’t hacked, but change your PIN right now | Verizon wasn’t hacked, but customers who used the company’s customer support service in the past six months should take action to protect their accounts, as personal data may have been accessed by hackers.
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| 20.06.2017 | Trump campaign data firms leak info on 200m US voters | Sensitive personal information on more than 198 million voters in the United States was stored unencrypted and with no access controls in the cloud, potentially creating one of the largest data leaks ever.
The data was compiled for last yea... |
| 19.06.2017 | GOP Data Firm Left The Personal Data Of 198 Million American Voters On Openly-Accessible Amazon Server | A GOP data firm has accepted responsibility for leaving the personal data of 198 million Americans (aka: most of the country’s voting populace) openly accessible on an Amazon server in the biggest voter data leak in global history. Deep Roo... |
| 19.06.2017 | Personal Data of 198M US Voters Has Leaked in Largest Ever Voting Breach | Political data breaches aren't just for the DNC anymore: A GOP data firm has accidentally leaked personal information on almost all of the 200 million registered voters it had access to. The database was left exposed to the internet on a pu... |
| 19.06.2017 | Unsecured Amazon server leaks details of 198 million American voters | Personal data and profiling information about millions of American voters has been exposed in what is believed to be the largest ever leak of its kind.
198 million records were found stored on an unsecured Amazon S3 server owned by Deep Roo... |
| 19.06.2017 | Exposed GOP database demonstrates the risks of data-hungry political campaigns | Since November, the Trump campaign’s possibly brilliant, maybe-just-lucky data strategy launched a thousand thinkpieces. Now, we’ve got a more intimate look at that data than we were ever meant to have.
As discovered by Chris Vickery, a cyb... |
| 26.11.2016 | Hackers pose threat to retailers’ cyber sales plans | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Getting knocked offline is costly.
When a novel hacking attack crippled parts of the Internet in October, it cut off consumers access t... |
| 23.11.2016 | Free tool helps consumers check online security ahead of Black Friday | On this year's Black Friday and Cyber Monday, more Americans will be shopping online than ever before, but a new study reveals that the majority are concerned about the potential to have their personal and financial information hacked.
The ... |
| 13.10.2016 | Healthcare companies are facing a cyber security crisis | Many industries have found that the rapid expansion in demand for digital information has outpaced efforts to keep the data secure. This is a particular issue for healthcare organizations which handle confidential records yet have seen some... |
