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Senators Again Propose National Breach Notification Bill
A trio of Democratic Senators is attempting to catapult Congress into the information security era by pushing for passage of a U.S. national data breach notification law. Read more...
Top secret government files stored without password protection on Amazon server
It doesn’t always require a whistleblower to leak classified NSA data, considering top secret files were stored on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket that was configured for public access. The server contained sensitive data belonging to the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), which is a joint Army and NSA division. Read more...
Over 100GB of Secret Consumer Credit Data Leaked Online
Some 111GB of highly sensitive information including consumer credit histories has been exposed by the National Credit Federation as the result of yet another misconfigured Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 cloud storage bucket. Read more...
Clarksons' breach again shows need to eliminate passwords
The global shipping firm Clarksons reported that it has suffered a cybersecurity breach which it, and outside security firms, believe was caused when a lone user account was hacked, again bringing to the forefront the need to move past the legacy username and password for logging in to a critical system. Read more...
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