Data Security

Oracle was reported by Bloomberg to have admitted the theft of some customers' old credentials as a result of the compromise of an environment deprecated eight years ago following prior categorical denial of any breach after threat actor "rose87168" recently claimed stealing six million data records from Oracle Cloud's federated single sign-on servers, according to BleepingComputer.

Cybernews reports that most of the over 2.8 billion user records belonging to X, formerly Twitter which were purported by threat actor "ThinkingOne" to have been exfiltrated by a disgruntled employee were publicly available information.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is sounding the alarm over a series of high-risk vulnerabilities present in industrial control systems

Google says it has created “an entirely new type of encryption” for Gmail.

Vasu Jakkal, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of security, emphasized that AI-driven cyber defense is essential as Microsoft Threat Intelligence processes 84 trillion signals daily, enabling proactive threat detection.

Cybernews reports that recent data breaches have impacted 65% of the largest hospitals and health systems across the U.S. just as the total number of compromised health records exceeded 276 million, or more than 80% of the country's population, last year, which is the highest on record.

U.S. Department of Justice bankruptcy regulators have been urged by Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson to ensure that any buyer of the embattled DNA testing services company 23andMe should comply with the firm's existing data privacy policies.