As reported by BBC News, a Virgin Media database containing the personal details of 900,000 people was left unsecured and accessible online for 10 months, the company has admitted. The information was accessed “on at least one occasion” by an unknown user. The database, which was for marketing purposes, contained phone numbers, home and email addresses. It did not include passwords or financial details. The breach was not due to a hack or a criminal attack, but because the database had been “incorrectly configured” by a member of staff not following the correct procedures, Virgin Media said.
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@Stuart Reed, UK Director, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Monitoring at the DNS level can also provide insights into where data is being exposed to the web and what might be leaving your network...."
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"Network & security managers, as well as infosecurity executives, must have the right cyber risk management and reporting tools...."
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@Brian Higgins, Security Specialist, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Don’t help criminals make a bad situation even worse...."
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@Martin Jartelius, CSO , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Overall, this is just one more of the open exposed databases leading to breaches we are seeing lately...."
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@Martin Jartelius, CSO , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Overall, this is just one more of the open exposed databases leading to breaches we are seeing lately...."
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@Peter Draper, Technical Director, EMEA, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Please - if you run any services that collects customer data, have your teams double and triple check that they are secured correctly...."
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@Peter Draper, Technical Director, EMEA, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Please - if you run any services that collects customer data, have your teams double and triple check that they are secured correctly...."
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@Stuart Sharp, VP of Solution Engineering, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Misconfiguration is a term used really to hide the fact baseline controls haven’t been put in place like privileged user access controls...."
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@Stuart Sharp, VP of Solution Engineering, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Misconfiguration is a term used really to hide the fact baseline controls haven’t been put in place like privileged user access controls...."
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@Javvad Malik, Security Awareness Advocate, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"While cloud platforms bring many benefits, there are different kinds of risks that present themselves...."
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@Javvad Malik, Security Awareness Advocate, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"While cloud platforms bring many benefits, there are different kinds of risks that present themselves...."
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@Jake Moore, Cybersecurity Specialist, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Coupled up with Virgin’s broadband outage in the week, this could be a particularly good target for malicious actors to prey on...."
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@Jake Moore, Cybersecurity Specialist, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Coupled up with Virgin’s broadband outage in the week, this could be a particularly good target for malicious actors to prey on...."
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@Robert Capps, VP , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"This is helping render much of this stolen data valueless, as it is not enough for bad actors to succeed in their schemes...."
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@Robert Capps, VP , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"This is helping render much of this stolen data valueless, as it is not enough for bad actors to succeed in their schemes...."
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