Total Cloud Security Blog

Here are the top stories of recent weeks:

• Over 6.5 Million Israeli Voters Exposed in Online Voter Registry
• Phishing Scam Costs Puerto Rican Government Over $2.6 Million
• Nedbank, South Africa’s Predominant Bank is the Latest Victim of a Breach Affecting 1.7 Million Customers
• Popular Photo Printing Mobile Application Exposed in Breach Affecting 10,000 Users
• A Mismanaged S3 Bucket Results in a Breach Affecting 49 Million Individuals

Here are the top stories of recent weeks:  

• Ransomware Attack Halts Two Cancer Radiation Treatment Centers
• Cloud Based Storage Bucket Exposed with Over 750,000 Users’ Applications 
• A Massive Trove of Email Addresses and Passwords Left Online Without Any Protection
• Microsoft Warns Other Organizations of Threat Actor Group, Gallium 
• Gas Station PoS Systems Under Attack in North America, Visa Warns

In a sea of millions of apps, which one is the biggest fish to fry? Firewall and proxy logs catch the traffic of users, but identifying what needs attention in such comprehensive logs can be overwhelming. Shadow IT discovery offers the ability to narrow down the search to apps that should be more closely monitored and controlled.

What you see in the title is what we covered in our latest webinar, but what part of it is really important? All of it? Some? Or is it all just marketing blather that can be ignored? The truth lies in the middle – we are all adopting more cloud in our personal lives, whether we like it or not. Every time we buy from Amazon, we give it data about us and we support their business model, which is distinctly cloudy. Same for us as businesses – when we buy services from AWS we support the continued growth of cloud. The takeaway here is that most, if not all of our data will soon be stored off premises.