Data Security

Redmond has promised the federal government it would do better many times before -- and we always default to the status quo.

TechRadar reports that increased cybersecurity investments have not prevented 67% of companies from experiencing data breaches over the past 24 months.

Hackread reports that U.S. college sports scholarship and recruitment assistance platform PrepHero had more than 3.1 million records belonging to high school athletes and their coaches inadvertently exposed by a misconfigured database.

BleepingComputer reports that U.S. cloud communications firm Twilio has refuted having been compromised following an alleged major data breach at leading game digital distribution platform Steam, which was claimed by threat actor EnergyWeaponsUser, also known as Machine1337, to have resulted in the theft of more than 89 million user records with one-time access codes.

CISA responded to concerns that the flaw potentially lets attackers access entire message histories from Signal clones.

Cybernews reports that the Center of Aviation Medicine, which has been a part of Russia's state-owned defense conglomerate Rostec over 15 years ago, had data from 1.1 million individuals part of the country's aviation industry exposed on a leak site on Friday, when the country celebrated the anniversary of its victory in World War II.

SecurityWeek reports that Andy Frain Services, a physical security firm based in Illinois, had information from over 100,000 individuals stolen following a data breach in October, which the Black Basta ransomware alleged resulted in the compromise of 750 GB of files.

U.S. charter airline GlobalX, which has been contracted by the Trump administration for its widespread deportation efforts, has confirmed having its computer networks and some of its business applications infiltrated in a cyberattack last week, The Register reports.