TrueMove H, the mobile phone arm of Thailand’s largest pay-TV operator True Corp., has exposed data, including that of tourists, in the latest Amazon Web Services S3 misconfiguration story. Fortunately, the breach wasn’t in great numbers. The data exposure, discovered by cybersecurity researcher Niall Merrigan, involved 32 gigabytes of data and about 46,000 customer records. But unique ...

An old vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Information Services 6.0 platform is once again being targeted in a cryptomining attack, but this time around, the cryptocurrency being mined is different. The vulnerability, CVE-2017-7269, revealed in March 2017, is a Buffer Overflow vulnerability that is believed to affect as many as 8 million sites still running IIS 6.0, web server ...

Uber Technologies Inc. has agreed to expand its proposed settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over its infamous 2016 hack, in a sign that the two parties may be close to signing off on a settlement once and for all. Under the new terms, Uber has agreed, among other things, to be subject to ...

Tesla Inc. is no longer cooperating with the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board investigation into the crash of a Model X in autonomous mode that killed a man in Mountain View last month — but just why remains uncleaer. Depending on whom you believe, either Tesla quit the investigation, or it was thrown off it. Of ...

A new report has found that nearly all organizations are unprepared for fifth-generation cybersecurity threats, leaving them exposed to a new wave of malicious actors. The exact figure, 97 percent, comes from the 2018 Security Report from Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. Released today, it polled information technology security professionals worldwide across all industries about modern threats against ...

Salesforce cloud backup startup OwnBackup Ltd. today said it has raised $15.5 million in new financing The round was led by Vertex Ventures and Insight Venture Partners and also included Oryzn Capital, Salesforce Ventures and Innovation Endeavors, the latter the venture capital firm of former Alphabet Inc. Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. Founded in 2012, OwnBackup offers cloud-to-cloud backup services ...

In a bizarre twist in a constantly changing security environment, a new form of ransomware running wild does not ask victims for a payment but instead forces them to play PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, a battle royale game that first become popular last year. The infection route for the PUBG Ransomware, first revealed in a tweet Monday from ...

Palo Alto Networks Inc.’s acquisition spree is continuing apace. The security platform provider Tuesday picked up Israel-based endpoint protection startup Secdo Ltd. for a figure believed to be $100 million. Founded in 2015, Secdo offers an enterprise incident response platform that promises security teams can investigate and remediate complex threats in minutes. The company’s IR platform ...

Updated with first trading and executive comments: Cloud-based subscription startup Zuora Inc. is the latest technology company to make its first public offering of stock, and it did so with a bang today. The company late Wednesday sold 11 million shares for $14 a share, raising $154 million. That was above the range of $11 to $13 ...

Exposure of files to external sources such as misconfigured cloud storage services is shaping up as a major security issue. That’s according to a new report from Bitglass Inc. leading up to the RSA Conference in San Francisco, which starts April 16. The “Cloud Hard 2018: Security with a Vengeance” report from the cloud access security broker ...