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Eight Million Freepik Users Suffer Data Compromise
in Cyber Security, IT TipsPopular stock photo site Freepik has disclosed a major data breach affecting over eight million customers. The incident also affected users of the sister site Flaticon, which claims to run the world’s largest database of free icons. In a breach notice over the weekend, the firm claimed an attacker had compromised an SQL injection vulnerability […]
Nearly Half of UK IT Leaders Have Not Upgraded to Cloud Security
in Cyber Security, IT TipsNearly half (47%) of UK IT leaders have not updated their security strategies to account for their move to cloud environments, putting their organizations at higher risk of cyber-attack, according to a new study by Trend Micro commissioned for CLOUDSEC Online. This is despite the fact that traditional on-premises security such as firewalls, network intrusion prevention systems (IPS/IDS) […]
Nearly 40% of Firms Fired Staff for Security Policy Breaches
in Cyber Security, IT TipsAlmost two-fifths (39%) of British business decision makers have sacked employees because they breached corporate security policy during the pandemic, according to new data from Centrify. The IAM specialist polled 200 UK respondents to find out more about how COVID-19 and mass remote working has impacted corporate cybersecurity. Over half (58%) of respondents admitted that employees […]
Data Firm Exposes 235 Million Social Media Profiles
in Cyber Security, IT TipsA social media data broker has exposed the public-facing profiles of 235 million users via a misconfigured online database, according to researchers. Comparitech teamed up with Bob Diachenko to uncover three identical copies of the data on August 1, left online with no password or other authentication required to access it. In total, 192 million […]
Travel Site Exposed 37 Million Records Before Attack
in Cyber Security, IT TipsThe company behind one of India’s most popular travel booking sites exposed 43GB of customer and corporate data before it was deleted by the infamous “Meow” attacker, according to researchers. A team at SafetyDetectives led by Anurag Sen discovered an Elasticsearch server without password protection or encryption on August 10. It failed to get a […]