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Healthcare workers regularly upload sensitive data to GenAI, cloud accounts

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Healthcare workers regularly upload sensitive data to GenAI, cloud accounts 2025-05-08 at 07:02 By Help Net Security Healthcare organizations are facing a growing data security challenge from within, according to a new report from Netskope Threat Labs. The analysis reveals that employees in the sector are frequently attempting to upload sensitive information, including potentially protected […]

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Man Admits Hacking Disney and Leaking Data Disguised as Hacktivist

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Man Admits Hacking Disney and Leaking Data Disguised as Hacktivist 2025-05-05 at 14:48 By Eduard Kovacs A 25-year-old has admitted hacking Disney systems and leaking data under the guise of a hacktivist collective named NullBulge. The post Man Admits Hacking Disney and Leaking Data Disguised as Hacktivist appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an

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Files Deleted From GitHub Repos Leak Valuable Secrets

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Files Deleted From GitHub Repos Leak Valuable Secrets 2025-04-23 at 16:12 By Ionut Arghire A security researcher has discovered hundreds of leaked secrets by restoring files deleted from GitHub repositories. The post Files Deleted From GitHub Repos Leak Valuable Secrets appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source React

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How to find out if your AI vendor is a security risk

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How to find out if your AI vendor is a security risk 2025-04-10 at 08:31 By Help Net Security One of the most pressing concerns with AI adoption is data leakage. Consider this: An employee logs into their favorite AI chatbot, pastes sensitive corporate data, and asks for a summary. Just like that, confidential information

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Check Point Responds to Hacking Claims

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Check Point Responds to Hacking Claims 2025-04-01 at 14:04 By Ionut Arghire Check Point has responded to a hacker’s claims of sensitive data theft, confirming an incident but saying that it had limited impact. The post Check Point Responds to Hacking Claims appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original

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Hacker Leaks Samsung Customer Data

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Hacker Leaks Samsung Customer Data 2025-03-31 at 15:53 By Ionut Arghire Hacker leaks 270,000 customer tickets allegedly stolen from Samsung Germany using long-compromised credentials. The post Hacker Leaks Samsung Customer Data appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source React to this headline:

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Security Firms Say Evidence Seems to Confirm Oracle Cloud Hack

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Security Firms Say Evidence Seems to Confirm Oracle Cloud Hack 2025-03-26 at 12:24 By Eduard Kovacs Despite Oracle categorically denying that its Cloud systems have been breached, sample data released by the hacker seems to prove otherwise. The post Security Firms Say Evidence Seems to Confirm Oracle Cloud Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article

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70% of leaked secrets remain active two years later

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70% of leaked secrets remain active two years later 2025-03-20 at 07:01 By Help Net Security Long-lived plaintext credentials have been involved in most breaches over the last several years, according to GitGuardian. When valid credentials, such as API keys, passwords, and authentication tokens, leak, attackers at any skill level can gain initial access or

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How to prevent data leakage in collaboration tools like Slack and Teams

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How to prevent data leakage in collaboration tools like Slack and Teams 2025-03-06 at 08:03 By Help Net Security In recent years, collaboration tools have become an absolute necessity for remote and hybrid work. This primarily increased during the COVID-19 pandemic due to the impossibility of communicating in person. So, tools like Slack, Microsoft Teams,

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Black Basta Leak Offers Glimpse Into Group’s Inner Workings

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Black Basta Leak Offers Glimpse Into Group’s Inner Workings 2025-03-03 at 13:04 By Kevin Townsend A massive hoard of internal chats has been leaked from Black Basta, rivalling the Conti leaks of late February 2022. The post Black Basta Leak Offers Glimpse Into Group’s Inner Workings appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt

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Cyble Finds Thousands of Security Vendor Credentials on Dark Web

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Cyble Finds Thousands of Security Vendor Credentials on Dark Web 2025-01-22 at 10:23 By Paul Shread Overview Account credentials from some of the largest cybersecurity vendors can be found on the dark web, a result of the growing problem of infostealers, according to an analysis of Cyble threat intelligence data. The credentials – available for

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Configuration files for 15,000 Fortinet firewalls leaked. Are yours among them?

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Configuration files for 15,000 Fortinet firewalls leaked. Are yours among them? 2025-01-16 at 13:03 By Zeljka Zorz A threat actor has leaked configuration files (aka configs) for over 15,000 Fortinet Fortigate firewalls and associated admin and user credentials. The collection has been leaked on Monday and publicized on an underground forum by the threat actor

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UN aviation agency investigating possible data breach

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UN aviation agency investigating possible data breach 2025-01-07 at 16:49 By Zeljka Zorz The United Nation’s International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) confirmed on Monday that it’s “actively investigating reports of a potential information security incident allegedly linked to a threat actor known for targeting international organizations.” The statement came a few days after 42,000 documents

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Preventing data leakage in low-node/no-code environments

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Preventing data leakage in low-node/no-code environments 2024-12-10 at 07:34 By Help Net Security Low-code/no-code (LCNC) platforms enable application development by citizen developers, often generating “shadow engineering” projects that evade security oversight. While LCNC solutions like Power BI reports and automated workflows foster agility and innovation, they also introduce significant risks, including data leakage. Data leakage

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Massive troves of Amazon, HSBC employee data leaked

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Massive troves of Amazon, HSBC employee data leaked 2024-11-12 at 12:18 By Zeljka Zorz A threat actor who goes by the online moniker “Nam3L3ss” has leaked employee data belonging to a number of corporations – including Amazon, 3M, HSBC and HP – ostensibly compromised during the May 2023 MOVEit hack by the Cl0p ransomware gang,

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Patching problems: The “return” of a Windows Themes spoofing vulnerability

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Patching problems: The “return” of a Windows Themes spoofing vulnerability 2024-10-29 at 12:18 By Zeljka Zorz Despite two patching attempts, a security issue that may allow attackers to compromise Windows user’s NTLM (authentication) credentials via a malicious Windows themes file still affects Microsoft’s operating system, 0patch researchers have discovered. The path to discovery The story

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Data Breach and DDoS Attacks Take Archive.org and Open Library Offline

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Data Breach and DDoS Attacks Take Archive.org and Open Library Offline 2024-10-12 at 03:19 By Paul Shread Key Takeaways Overview The Internet Archive has taken its Archive.org and OpenLibrary.org sites offline in response to a data breach and repeated DDoS attacks. The breach of a user authentication database, which exposed the email addresses and credentials

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Internet Archive data breach, defacement, and DDoS: Users’ data compromised

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Internet Archive data breach, defacement, and DDoS: Users’ data compromised 2024-10-10 at 12:46 By Zeljka Zorz The Internet Archive has suffered a data breach, leading to the compromise of email addresses, screen names and bcrypt password hashes of some 31 million users. The compromise was revealed on Wednesday afternoon, when the digital library’s website began

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Deloitte Says No Threat to Sensitive Data After Hacker Claims Server Breach

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Deloitte Says No Threat to Sensitive Data After Hacker Claims Server Breach 2024-09-24 at 12:16 By Eduard Kovacs Deloitte says no sensitive data exposed after a notorious hacker leaked what he claimed to be internal communications. The post Deloitte Says No Threat to Sensitive Data After Hacker Claims Server Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek. This

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Cloud Storage Bucket Security: PII Leak Brings Renewed Focus to Storage Bucket Access Controls

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Cloud Storage Bucket Security: PII Leak Brings Renewed Focus to Storage Bucket Access Controls 2024-08-27 at 18:16 By dakshsharma16 Key Takeaways Overview A Google Cloud Storage bucket leak has brought renewed attention to the risk of misconfigured cloud storage buckets, one of the most common cloud security issues and causes of data leaks. Alice’s Table,

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