Ticketmaster confirms customer data breach

Live Nation Entertainment has confirmed what everyone has been speculating on for the last week: Ticketmaster has suffered a data breach. In a filing with the SEC, Live Nation said on May 20th it identified "unauthorized activity within a third-party cloud database environment containing Company...

TotalCloud Insights: A Wake-Up Call on Cloud Database Security Failure Rates

In part 1 of this two-part blog, we explored how to safeguard cloud databases from SQL Server threats and lateral movement risks. In this second part, we turn our focus to a comparative analysis of database security across three major cloud service providers CSPs, AWS, Azure, and GCP, as well as...

Severe Flaw in Google Cloud's Cloud SQL Service Exposed Confidential Data

A new security flaw has been disclosed in the Google Cloud Platform's GCP Cloud SQL service that could be potentially exploited to obtain access to confidential data. "The vulnerability could have enabled a malicious actor to escalate from a basic Cloud SQL user to a full-fledged sysadmin on a...

#BrokenSesame: Accidental ‘write’ permissions to private registry allowed potential RCE to Alibaba Cloud Database Services

A container escape vulnerability, combined with accidental 'write' permissions to a private registry, opened a backdoor for Wiz Research to access Alibaba Cloud databases and potentially compromise its services through a supply-chain attack...

SaaS Eliminates Barriers to Applying Security Controls to Your Entire AWS and Azure Data Repository

Businesses today widely regard data as “the new oil,” the most valuable resource on earth. At the same time, we are in the midst of the most dynamic IT landscape in history which is increasing the risk to this most valuable asset. Organizations, without sufficiently skilled staff to effectively...

Detecting malicious key extractions by compromised identities for Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed NoSQL cloud database service for modern app development. It offers a variety of advanced built-in features, such as automatic worldwide data replication, lightning-fast response types, and a variety of APIs. In this blog post, we describe security practices for...

Detecting malicious key extractions by compromised identities for Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed NoSQL cloud database service for modern app development. It offers a variety of advanced built-in features, such as automatic worldwide data replication, lightning-fast response types, and a variety of APIs. In this blog post, we describe security practices for...

Multiple Products - Retrieval of sensitive information in cleartext via GUI

A cleartext storage of sensitive information in the GUI of FortiADC, FortiSIEM, FortiDDoS, FortiDDoS-CM and FortiDDoS-F may allow a remote authenticated attacker to retrieve some sensitive information such as users LDAP passwords, RADIUS shared secret and the Elastic Cloud database password by...

Episode 124: PrintNightmare 0Day Exploit Accidentally Leaked Online

Security researchers accidentally leaked zero-day exploit code for a new Windows bug, now called PrintNightmare, while easily exploitable vulnerabilities in the ProfilePress plugin, previously called WP User Avatar, were patched quickly. An unprotected cloud database containing over 814 million...

Is Your AWS Data Secure and Compliant? Cloud Database Visibility in Minutes

Internal and external attackers are after your data. Regardless of where the data resides, cloud, or on-premises, you need to protect it. In some cases that data needs to be put under compliance controls. Data protection principles hold for data hosted in the cloud database as a service DBaaS. Fo...

Estée Lauder Exposes 440M Records, with Email Addresses, Network Info

A non-password protected cloud database containing hundreds of millions of customer records and internal logs for cosmetic giant Estée Lauder has been found exposed online, according to researchers. In all, 440,336,852 individual data pieces were exposed, according to researcher Jeremiah Fowler a...

Supported Databases for Virtual Apps and Desktops AND Citrix Provisioning (PVS)

Citrix is committed to ensuring that our products function with the latest Microsoft SQLdatabases.Citrix supplies reasonable efforts to ensure compatibility with upcoming database releases. New versions of supported databases released after our products have been released, must work. However,...

Baidu Cloud RDS service suffers from arbitrary file read vulnerability

Baidu Cloud RDS service is a specialized high-performance and highly reliable cloud database service provided by Baidu. An arbitrary file read vulnerability exists in Baidu Cloud RDS service, which can be exploited by an attacker to read arbitrary files...

Explainer Series: RDaaS Security and Managing Compliance Through Database Audit and Monitoring Controls

As organizations move to cloud database platforms they shouldn't forget that data security and compliance requirements remain an obligation. This article explains how you can apply database audit and monitoring controls using Imperva SecureSphere V13.2 when migrating to database as a service clou...

[CrowdRE] Reverse Engineering Tool

A new project called CrowdRE aims to make it easy for the reverse engineering of complex applications working in collaboration with other users. Normally, the process reversing software from a complicated binary can consume much time, CrowdRE will help accelerate this process through teamwork...