LocalBlox found leaking info on tens of millions of individuals
LocalBlox, a US-based data technology company that “crawls, discovers, extracts, indexes, maps and augments data in a variety of formats from the web and from exchange …
cloud storage
To prevent data breaches, AWS offers S3 bucket permissions check to all users
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that all customers can now freely check whether their S3 buckets are leaking stored data. “Previously available only to Business …
5 cloud storage predictions for 2018
At this point, the cloud is old news. This does not, however, diminish its continuing impact on individuals and businesses worldwide. As cloud-based services strive towards …
New Amazon S3 encryption and security features introduced
Amazon Web Services has announced the availability of five new encryption and security features for the Amazon S3 cloud storage service. These include: Default object …
Accenture inadvertently exposes highly sensitive corporate, client data online
Corporate consulting giant Accenture left bucketloads of sensitive corporate and client data exposed online for anyone to access. Luckily for them, it seems that UpGuard …
Dow Jones customer data exposed due to cloud misconfiguration
US-based publishing and financial information firm Dow Jones & Company is the latest casualty of a cloud database misconfiguration error. In late May, UpGuard’s …
Exposed Verizon customer data could be a shortcut for hijacking many online accounts
Chris Vickery, director of cyber risk research at UpGuard, has discovered more sensitive information exposed on an unprotected “bucket” on an Amazon AWS server. …
Western Digital My Cloud NAS devices wide open to attackers
Western Digital My Cloud NAS devices have again been found wanting in the security department, as two set of researchers have revealed a number of serious flaws in the …
Evernote employees will be able to read notes only if users allow it
Evernote has recently announced that, starting on January 23, 2017, Evernote users’ unencrypted notes will be accessible to some Evernote employees. The change to the …
Hybrid cloud storage use to double in next 12 months
The use of hybrid cloud storage will accelerate rapidly over the next 12 months, according to Cloudian. Across 400 organisations surveyed in the UK and USA, 28% already use …
Shadow IT intensifies cloud security risks
Lack of visibility into an organization’s use of cloud providers can lead to unauthorized access to data, improper handling and storage of data and improper data removal. As a …
There’s a way to use encrypted data without knowing what it holds
Microsoft researchers have devised a way for third parties to make use the vast amount of encrypted data stored in the cloud by companies and individuals, without them …