Cybersecurity

United States – Spotify

Spotify has returned for another appearance with a credential stuffing disaster eerily similar. This time, data of approximately 100k users appeared in an Elasticsearch instance spotted by researchers. This is distinctly different data than the load that researchers discovered in November 2020. Here’s the full story

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Cybersecurity

United Kingdom – UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) agency is now researching a ransomware incident that encrypted data and impacted its proprietary services. The impacted services include a service offering information to subscribers and the platform for peer review of various parts of the agency. The agency has not yet disclosed if data was stolen or any…

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Cybersecurity

United States – Nissan North America

Nissan North America recently suffered a data breach that resulted in source code for its mobile apps and internal tools turning up online. The data leak is reportedly the result of a misconfigured Git server. The source code, as reported by a security researcher, pertains to Nissan NA Mobile apps, some parts of the Nissan…

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Managed Services

Serverless Computing

Serverless computing is a misnomer. Computing is impossible without the presence of a machine. Just like a virus needs a host, code can also not run in thin air, it needs machine resources to take input, process, and then produce output. So then what is serverless computing, and why is it gaining so much popularity? Basically serverless computing is…

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