US Background Check Firm Data Breach Exposes 3.3M Records

A data breach at DISA Global Solutions, a firm providing background checks, and drugs and alcohol testing services,…...

Data broker exposes 600,000 sensitive files including background checks

A researcher has discovered a data broker had stored 644,869 PDF files in a publicly accessible cloud storage container. The 713.1 GB container an Amazon S3 bucket did not have password-protection, and the data was left unencrypted, so anybody who stumbled on them could read the files. The files...

Texas School Safety Software Data Leak Endangers Student Safety

By Deeba Ahmed From Background Checks to Bedroom Layouts: Data Leak Strips Bare School Security System. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Texas School Safety Software Data Leak Endangers Student Safety...

HackerOne: Mishandling of hackerone clear background checks resulting in disclosure of other hacker's information

Summary: Mishandling of hackerone clear background checks resulting in disclosure of other hacker's information . Description: I received a hackerone clear invite for "█████" I am not █████. There appears to be some kind of off by one error or similar problem with the hackerone clear invites! fir...

IKEA Fined $1.2M for Elaborate ‘Spying System’

IKEA’s French subsidiary was just hit with a $1.2 million fine after it was found guilty of a creepy systematic snooping scheme targeting customers, employees and even prospective hires. Prosecutors said in all, the company illegally surveilled about 400 people in total, according to the BBC. IKE...

NERC CIP Compliance in Azure vs. Azure Government cloud

As discussed in my last blog post on North American Electric Reliability Corporation—Critical Infrastructure Protection NERC CIP Compliance in Azure, U.S. and Canadian utilities are now free to benefit from cloud computing in Azure for many NERC CIP workloads. Machine learning, multiple data...

In Wake of New Vulnerability OPM Temporarily Halts Background Checks

The Office of Personnel Management — already deep in the throes of a breach that may implicate upwards to 18 million government employees — announced yesterday that it is temporarily suspending the system it uses to conduct government background checks. According to the OPM, the shuttering of the...

Is China Behind the Massive Data Theft of 4 Million U.S. Officials?

The US federal agency has notified its 4 Million current and former government employees that their private data has been compromised in a massive data breach. Hackers managed to break into US government computer systems in the Office of Personnel Management OPM and steal records of Millions of...

Customer Credit Reports for Resale in Black market

Customer Credit Reports for Resale in Black market Internet security concerns grew the most, Approximately half of respondents said they were seriously concerned about viruses, spam, and the safety of online shopping. 70% of respondents said they were seriously concerned about identity theft, and...

Friending HR: A Rich and Mineable Source of Intelligence

One of the most common complaints I hear from information security executives in large organizations is that they are constantly playing defense, not offense. Their network security apparatus is designed to wait for an attack, see if it’s successful and, if it is, to plug the hole, then repeat. T...