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

Top 3 Misconceptions About Data After Death - Security Magazine

Top 10 Largest Data Breaches

April 22, 2020

A new study by Omnisend reveals the US companies that have had the largest number of data breaches. 


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General Electric Discloses Data Breach Affecting Present and Former Employees

April 9, 2020
General Electric (GE), a global Fortune 500 company, has acknowledged a data breach affecting present and former employees and their beneficiaries. Between February 3-14, 2020, an unauthorized user gained access to the email account of Canon Business Process Services, which GE contracts with to process employee documents. 
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Top 3 Misconceptions About Data After Death - Security Magazine

Data Breach Report: RigUp Exposes More Than 70,000 Private Files

April 9, 2020
Led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, vpnMentor’s research team recently discovered a breached database belonging to American software company RigUp, containing more than 70,000 private files belonging to its US energy sector clients. Read more to learn about this data breach and the cybersecurity implications.
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Data Breach Report: Popular Digital Wallet App Key Ring Exposes 14 Million Users

April 3, 2020
Led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, vpnMentor’s research team of ethical hackers, recently discovered a data leak by the popular app Key Ring, that compromised the privacy and security of their 14 million users.
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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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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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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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