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Intimate Details on Healthcare Workers Exposed as Cloud Security Lags
The database was set to be publicly accessible, and anyone could edit, download or delete data without administrative credentials, he said. That’s worrying given the sensitive nature of the information he found.
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Surveying over 3,000 IT and IT security practitioners in Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, India Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, the data shows that nearly half (48 percent) of organizations have a multi-cloud strategy, with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and IBM being the top three. The study found that, on average, organizations use three different cloud service providers, and more than a quarter (28 percent) are using four or more.
The research also found somewhat schizophrenic attitudes towards security in the cloud. For instance, nearly half of survey respondents (46 percent) believe that storing consumer data in the cloud makes them more of a security risk; and more than half (56 percent) also noted that it poses a compliance risk. However, only 23 percent say security is a factor in selecting a cloud provider.
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After banning working cryptography and raiding whistleblowers, Australia's spies ban speakers from national infosec conference
This year, AISA opted to co-organise its annual conference with the Australian Cyber Security Centre, a creature of the same spy agencies that led the crackdown on whistleblowers in June.
But the ACSC has a very different set of priorities to AISA, which is why it insisted on the cancellation of multiple invited talks at the show, including Thomas Drake, a celebrated NSA whistleblower who was scheduled to give a talk on "the golden age of surveillance, both government and corporate"; and the University of Melbourne's Dr Suelette Dreyfus whose cancelled lecture was on "anonymous whistleblowing technologies like SecureDrop and how they reduce corruption in countries where that is a problem."
Both speakers have posted their slides, and Bruce Schneier, who gave a keynote at the conference, opened his talk by reading the URLs aloud.
But the censorship doesn't stop there: ACSC also demanded that invited speaker Ted Ringrose (partner at the Ringrose Siganto law firm) remove criticism in his speech on Australia's ban on working cryptography, going so far as to edit his slides to remove "bias." (Ringrose refused and was allowed to give his original talk as planned).
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U.S. and U.K. agencies warn consumers to update VPN technologies from Fortinet, Pulse Secure and Palo Alto Networks.
State-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) groups are using flaws in outdated VPN technologies from Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet and Pulse Secure to carry out cyber attacks on targets in the United States and overseas, warned U.S. and U.K. officials.
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