My favorite definition of the (public) cloud is “It’s someone else’s computer.” That is really what any external cloud service is. And if your services, data and other assets are located on someone else’s equipment, you are at their mercy on whether you can access those assets and data at any time. It isn’t up to you. It’s solely determined by them, and any service level agreement you agreed to. And you can lose everything stored there permanently. You should have multiple backups of your data no matter where it is stored, especially including if it is stored using a cloud service.

According to a Linklaters analysis, there has been a major increase of data breach notifications to data protection authorities, with an average increase in notifications of 66 percent compared to Year 1 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’). 

vpnMentor’s research team, led by analysts Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, recently discovered a sensitive data breach originating from the domestic violence prevention app Aspire News App. 

Although it is tempting to think of breaches as being exclusively caused by malicious cybercriminals hacking corporate networks, the truth is that a significant portion are caused—or least facilitated—by insiders.

Nearly 80% of the companies surveyed had experienced at least one cloud data breach in the past 18 months, and nearly half (43%) reported 10 or more breaches, according to a new study from Ermetic and intelligence firm IDC.

A judge in the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia has ruled that Capital One must allow plaintiffs to review a cybersecurity firm’s forensic report related to the bank’s 2019 data breach. Capital One sought to keep the report private on the grounds that it is a protected legal document.

Joomla, a free and open-source content management system for publishing web content, developed by Open Source Matters, Inc., has disclosed a data breach which affects 2,700 individuals. 

Led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, vpnMentor’s research team discovered a massive amount of incredibly sensitive financial data connected to India’s mobile payment app Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM) that was exposed to the public.

vpnMentor's research team, led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, discovered a data breach belonging to the Spanish e-learning platform 8Belts, affecting 150,000s of people across the globe.