data leak | DataProtectionCenter.com

10 Major Cloud Storage Security Slip-Ups (So Far) this Year

13

Oct

2017

One of many concerning security trends from 2017 is the accidental exposure of cloud data via misconfigured Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets from Amazon Web Services. This year has been marked with several data leaks from major organizations, most recently Accenture. “While this incident is very unfortunate, it’s not very surprising,” says RedLock cofounder and […]

Category Cloud security Written by Darkreading 0 Comments

Down the Rabbit Hole with a BLU Phone Infection

12

Oct

2017

When network administrator James Lockmuller bought 11 dirt-cheap Android phones via Amazon he thought he had a perfect solution for communicating with his warehouse team stretched across a 73,000 square-foot campus. He installed only Skype on the devices and planned to use the $50 BLU Studio X8 HD phones as high-end walkie-talkies on a Wi-Fi […]

Category Malware Mobile security Written by Threatpost 0 Comments

Spambot Contains ‘Mind-Boggling’ Amount of Email, SMTP Credentials

31

Aug

2017

Researchers have managed to penetrate a spam bot and uncover a massive list of 711 million records that includes email addresses, email and password combinations (some in cleartext), and SMTP credentials and configuration files. Troy Hunt who runs the Have I Been Pwned service called it a “mind-boggling amount of data.” “Just for a sense […]

Category Email security Written by Threatpost 0 Comments

The Latest in IT Security

Posts Tagged ‘data leak’

Down the Rabbit Hole with a BLU Phone Infection

Spambot Contains ‘Mind-Boggling’ Amount of Email, SMTP Credentials

Categories

Featured

Archives

Latest Comments

About Us

Contact Us