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Articles Tagged with ''personally identifiable information (PII)''

The Cloud Is NOT a Product

Data Breach Report: Cloud Storage Exposes 270,000 Users’ Private Information

March 25, 2020
Led by cybersecurity analysts Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, vpnMentor’s research team recently found a serious breach in an open Amazon S3 bucket owned by secure cloud storage provider Data Deposit Box.
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Unidentified Database Exposes Records of 200 Million Americans

March 23, 2020
The CyberNews research team uncovered an unsecured database owned by an unidentified party, comprising 800 gigabytes of personal user information.The database was left on a publicly accessible server and contained more than 200 million detailed user records. 
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Dispelling the Dangerous Myth of Data Breach Fatigue; cyber security news

UK-Based Security Company Exposes Database Containing More than 5 Billion Records

March 23, 2020
Security researcher Bob Diachenko has found an unprotected and publicly available Elasticsearch database, which appears to be managed by a UK-based security company, according to the SSL certificate and reverse DNS records. 
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Encryption Future - Security Magazine

Security Trial: Are Biometric Authentication Systems Fulfilling Encryption Standards?

Sarah Amundsson
March 20, 2020
Recent data breach incidents that expose personally identifiable information and biometrics highlight the lack of proper authentication and storage protocols. Organizations need to implement effective storage-based strategies to protect the biometric data collected as a result of authentication. Why is data encryption the solution?
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Data Breach Report: British Printing Press Leaks Confidential Material and More

March 19, 2020
The vpnMentor cybersecurity research team uncovered a leaking S3 Bucket with over 270k records and greater than 343GB in size on an Amazon server, belonging to Doxzoo.
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Employee Theft Security Magazine November 2017

U.S. Ex-Inspector General Indicted for Stealing Data on 250,000 DHS Employees

March 10, 2020
A former Acting Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been charged of alleged theft of proprietary software and confidential databases from the U.S. government.
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The Long and Winding Road to Cyber Recovery

New Report: A Profile into Kilos, New Search Engine for the Dark Web

March 5, 2020
Why is Kilos - a new cybercriminal engine - quickly becoming popular, and what are the threats that security researchers and operations team face with Kilos? 
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Cruise Operator Carnival Corporation Discloses Cyber Attack

March 5, 2020
Two units of cruise operator Carnival Corp. disclosed that they were the targets of a cyber attack, which they identified in May 2019. 
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900,000 Files Exposed by Plastic Surgery Technology Provider NextMotion

February 20, 2020
Led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, vpnMentor’s research team recently discovered a breached database belonging to plastic surgery technology company NextMotion. 
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Adult Site Leaks 875,000 Extremely Sensitive Records

January 17, 2020
The vpnMentor cybersecurity research team, led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, have uncovered a leaking S3 Bucket with 19.95GB of visible data on a Virginia-based Amazon server, belonging to an adult site. 
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