The personal information of nearly 82 million Americans was exposed online for at least two weeks thanks to another cloud misconfiguration error, although it’s not clear which company is at fault. Researchers from security firm HackenProof discovered the publicly available

A new study found that a majority of financial services security professionals are overly confident about the ability of machine identity protections to defend their organizations’s networks, according to Venafi. The report, Securing the Enterprise with Machine Identity Protection, conducted

Google Chrome has long been a popular web browser, but since the introduction of the headless mode functionality, the browser has grow in popularity not only among software engineers and testers but also with attackers, according to Imperva. According to

Society’s dependence on internet-based technologies means security professionals must defend against cyberattacks as well as more traditional threats, such as robbers or disgruntled employees. However, cybercriminals target some industries at disproportionally high rates. Here are four of them: 1. Health

Quora Breach Hits 100 Million Users Quora has become the latest big-name tech firm to suffer a major data breach, after revealing that personal information on 100 million users may have been compromised. The question-and-answer website said it discovered unauthorized

Security experts at HackenProof are warning Open Elasticsearch instances expose over 82 million users in the United States. Experts from HackenProof discovered Open Elasticsearch instances that expose over 82 million users in the United States. Elasticsearch is a Java-based search

There has been an increase in the volume of cybercrime incidents reported to English police of 14% over the past two financial years, according to a new report. Think tank Parliament Street filed Freedom of Information (FOI) requests with the

ISACA, the leading global association for IT audit, risk, governance and security professionals, and Infosecurity Group, Europe’s leading information security event, are partnering to produce the most progressive information security event in North America. To debut in New York City’s

The majority of financial firms rank cyber-resilience as their top concern, with people, visibility and third-party risk key challenges, according to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The UK regulator’s latest report, Cyber and Technology Resilience: Themes from cross-sector survey 2017

Hotel chain Marriott has confirmed widespread reports of a significant data breach with the sensitive details of 500 million customers possibly compromised. In an online statement, the company said: “On September 8, 2018, Marriott received an alert from an internal

The MITRE Corporation’s ATT&CK framework has been used to evaluate the efficiency of several enterprise security products designed by several vendors. In April, MITRE announced a new service based on its ATT&CK (Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge) framework to

Microsoft has revealed the causes of a major global incident last week that led to large numbers of Azure, Office 365, Dynamics and other Microsoft users being unable to log-in to their services. The 14-hour outage affected Microsoft Azure AD