Security "Bits"

Why are CIOs and IT organizations prioritizing investment in cloud infrastructure? The answer is simple: to better support virtual workforces, supply chains, and partners. Getting the most value out of legacy systems typically involves integrating them with cloud infrastructure and apps. As a result, cloud infrastructure in IaaS is projected to see an end-user spending increase of 38.5% this year alone – growing to $223B in 2025, making it one of the fastest growing cloud services according to Gartner. Popular infrastructure services include Amazon’s Elastic Compute (EC2), the Google Compute Engine, and Microsoft Azure.

Today we released our 2021 Remote Workforce Security Report. We surveyed 287 IT and security professionals to understand how remote work has transformed the state of security operations over the last year. 

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