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Security Magazine | January 22, 2020

Led by internet privacy researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, vpnMentor’s research team discovered a data breach in THSuite, a point-of-sale system in the cannabis industry. The research team identified an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket owned by THSuite that exposed 85,000 files of sensitive data from multiple marijuana dispensaries around the U.S. and their customers. The leaked data included scanned government and employee IDs, exposing personally identifiable information (PII) for over 30,0...

DATA SECURITY

Achieve Partners | September 06, 2021

Achieve Partners today announced the acquisition of Metmox, a leading Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) to Fortune 500 companies. The acquisition is the latest in Achieve's new fund, which builds apprenticeship programs that provide on-the-job skills training and connections to career pathways in high-growth industries. "While cyber threats are growing in number and sophistication amid increasing levels of remote work and cloud adaption, the global security workfor...

DATA SECURITY

Cybereason | April 23, 2021

Cybereason, the market leader in future-ready attack protection, reported today the discovery of a widespread, global campaign aimed at spreading the stealthy Prometei Botnet by attacking enterprises with a multi-stage attack to harvest computing power to mine bitcoin. To infiltrate networks, the threat actors, who tend to be Russian speakers, are exploiting previously disclosed Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities used in the Hafnium attacks. Prometei has a sophisticated infrastruc...

Google | June 04, 2020

Google's had an extra-high level of cybersecurity that can be applied to people's accounts if they're particularly at risk of malicious hacking attempts or online attacks. Google account signed up for both the Advanced Protection Program and for use as ...