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Adult live streaming site CAM4 found leaking data of millions of users
A misconfigured database containing 7 terabytes of sensitive user and company information related to adult live streaming site CAM4 has been found leaking data. The database …
Unsecured databases continue leaking millions of records
UK ISP and telecom provider Virgin Media has confirmed on Thursday that one of its unsecured marketing databases had been accessed by on at least one occasion without …
Lessons from Microsoft’s 250 million data record exposure
Microsoft has one of the best security teams and capabilities of any organization in the technology industry, yet it accidentally exposed 250 million customer records in …
Mitsubishi Electric discloses data breach, possible data leak
Japanese multinational Mitsubishi Electric has admitted that it had suffered a data breach some six months ago, and that “personal information and corporate confidential …
Most security pros admit to accidental internal breaches at their organization
44% percent of executives believe employees have erroneously exposed personally identifiable information (PII) or business-sensitive information using their company email …
UniCredit says personal data of 3 million customers was compromised
Italian global banking and financial services giant UniCredit has announced that its cybersecurity team has identified “a data incident” that resulted in the …
Security and compliance gaps of ineffective employee onboarding and offboarding
There are significant gaps in the compliant management of employee resources throughout the employment lifecycle. Just 15% of employees have all the resources they require to …
Routers from well-known manufacturers vulnerable to cross-router data leaks
While many organizations and home networks use a host and guest network on the same router hardware to increase security, a new study by Ben-Gurion University indicates that …
Huge database found leaking biometric, personal info of millions
While working on a web-mapping project, vpnMentor researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar discovered a publicly accessible database containing fingerprint records of over 1 …
Digital bank Monzo urges customers to change PINs following security breach
Monzo, a UK-based mobile-only bank, has notified a subset of its users that their PINs have been inadvertently leaked into internal log files and were accessible to some of …
What is and what is not working for security operations teams in securing cloud data
Security professionals continue to face a number of major challenges as more organizations move legacy IT operations to cloud infrastructure and applications, and traditional …
3 months, 1900 reported breaches, 1.9 billion records exposed
There were 1,903 publicly disclosed data compromise events in the first three months of the year, exposing over 1.9 billion records, according to Risk Based Security. No other …
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