Security News for the Week Ending October 25, 2019

October 25, 2019 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

Database Leaked 179 GB of Personal Data of military personnel, officials and hotel customers. I wish this was a new story. Autoclerk, a Best Western service that manages reservations, revenue, loyalty programs, payment processing and other functions for the hotel chain. left an elastic search database exposed. Hundreds of thousands of guest reservations were exposed […]

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Number of Data Breaches Up 54% in First Half of 2019

August 19, 2019 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

Remember, this only counts reported breaches. Marriott, for example, didn’t detect its breach for FOUR YEARS. And tens of thousands of breaches likely go both undetected and unreported. The midyear data breach review by Risk Based Security said there were 3,816 breaches REPORTED in the first half of 2019, up 54% from the first half […]

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