Tag: cloud storage

October 24, 2023

A third-party contractor running a database without password protection exposed more than 500,000 records related to vehicle seizures by the Irish National Police (An Garda Síochána, “Garda”). Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler found various records dating back to 2017 including scanned […]

October 4, 2023

Microsoft has officially unveiled the next generation of OneDrive, which is set to bring the cloud storage solution more closely in line with the rest of the company’s offerings, including Microsoft 365 apps like Teams and Outlook. The company is […]

January 9, 2023

Amazon’s cloud storage Simple Storage Service (S3) now encrypts all new objects added on buckets server-side at no extra cost. In an announcement(opens in new tab) on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog, the company claimed that while encryption had […]

February 25, 2022

CybelAngel published a research revealing that data leaks and shadow assets are the greatest source of exposure to cyberattacks faced by large organizations across the globe. The report also highlights how the market pressures of 2021 led to an increase […]

October 28, 2021

Cloud computing’s mobility and ease of access makes it one of the most convenient choices for any modern organization. While using the cloud, though, companies are becoming more and more susceptible to security threats.  Most Companies Don’t Protect Their Sensitive […]

July 21, 2021

The past decade has witnessed scandal after scandal over private images maliciously or accidentally made public. A study from computer scientists at Columbia Engineering reveals what may be the first way to encrypt personal images on popular cloud photo services, […]

September 15, 2020

Company access keys, used by developers to authenticate into other systems, are all too frequently being left exposed to the public during the software development process, putting company data at risk of being compromised by malicious actors on the lookout […]

August 11, 2020

77 percent of IT professionals believe they were prepared to manage the rapid shift to remote work during the COVID-19 outbreak, according to TeamViewer. Among those surveyed, the percentage working from home had abruptly jumped from 28 percent prior to […]

July 23, 2020

Twilio has confirmed that, for 8 or so hours on July 19, a malicious version of their TaskRouter JS SDK was being served from their one of their AWS S3 buckets. “Due to a misconfiguration in the S3 bucket that […]

March 6, 2020

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 permission (though the extent of the access is still unknown). The database, […]

January 25, 2019

Some attacks are fairly trivial, but others are multi-vector/multi-platform threats where multiple functionalities are combined as part of the same malicious threat (e.g., XBash, which combines cryptomining, ransomware and botnet/worm activity). The way in The attacks are automated and probe […]

July 12, 2017

For enterprises that use the cloud, the key to being protected starts with understanding the layers that make up the components of their cloud stack. These different layers create multiple potential targets, and for the informed, they each represent a […]

June 27, 2017

If you use Dropbox, Google Drive, or Yandex.Disk, then you have no doubt appreciated the convenience of always having all of your important files handy on any device. A file can be shared with friends or coworkers in a second. […]

November 11, 2016

SMBs are putting sensitive information at risk by using free cloud storage services that lack strong security measures, new research shows. Nearly 25% of small- to midsized-sized businesses (SMBs) continue to use free cloud storage services despite warnings from security […]

April 7, 2016

We’ve long been moving toward cloud-based and virtualized infrastructures, but in some ways 2016 might just be the year in which the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) really becomes a fixture in corporate America, according to HyTrust. There’s belief that optimal […]

March 27, 2015

Amazon announced unlimited #cloud storage with #amazon cloud drive—two new storage plans for customers to securely store their existing content collections and automatically upload endless amounts of new content. Customers can choose either the Unlimited Photos Plan or Unlimited Everything Plan […]