Take a Data-Centric Approach to Zero Trust to Protect Your Most Critical Assets
For many of us, children are our most critical assets. In order to protect what is important to us, we work hard to know where they are and what they are doing at all times — particularly during those pesky teen years. We also take steps to protect the places where they spend their time….
Developers Still Don’t Properly Handle Sensitive Data
Open-source software projects continue to struggle with handling sensitive information, according to automated scans of hundreds of millions of commits to code repositories. Software-security toolmaker DeepCode found that four of the seven vulnerabilities classes with the greatest impact on the security of software projects had to do with failures to protect data. The categories of…
Thousands of Organizations Expose Sensitive Data via Google Groups
Google has issued a warning to G Suite users after researchers discovered that thousands of organizations expose sensitive information through misconfigured Google Groups instances. The Google Groups service allows users to create mailing lists, host internal discussions, and process support tickets. These types of communications can include highly sensitive information, which is why it’s important…
Passwords for 540,642 GPS vehicle tracking devices leaked online
Login credentials and other sensitive data from more than a half million vehicle tracking devices, which continually pinpoint vehicles’ locations, were left unprotected online. The exposed records belonging to SVR Tracking, headquartered in San Diego, were discovered by Kromtech security researchers. Thanks to a misconfigured Amazon AWS S3 bucket, 540,642 account IDs which included logins…