Poor security measures associated with software development puts organizations at risk
September 15, 2020
Digital Shadows revealed new research looking at the growing problem of company access keys inadvertently exposed during software development. Access keys, and their corresponding secrets, are used by developers to authenticate into other systems.
The CyberNews research team uncovered an unsecured database owned by an unidentified party, comprising 800 gigabytes of personal user information.The database was left on a publicly accessible server and contained more than 200 million detailed user records.
A former Acting Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been charged of alleged theft of proprietary software and confidential databases from the U.S. government.
More than 10 years ago, I was deployed to Iraq as a U.S. Air Force intelligence analyst, assigned to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) Task Force with one clear objective: disrupt terrorist activities by targeting and capturing al-Qaeda insurgents.
