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2 months ago
Test environment let anyone access live customer data
Even a temporary staging server needs to be locked down.
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The Register
Even a temporary staging server needs to be locked down.
Bleeping Computer
Zscaler says that they discovered an exposed "test environment" that was taken offline for analysis after rumors circulated that a threat actor was selling access to the company's systems. [...]
Bleeping Computer
The University of Copenhagen in Denmark confirmed that hackers accessed one of its test environments containing personal data belonging to 525,000 people. [...]
The Register
Wrote and published malware during tests, which is apparently OK because leaky test environments were the real problem
Graham Cluley
Bank of America has a message for its customers: please, for the love of God, stop handing your banking passwords to your AI assistant. And if your robot does something daft with your money? That's your problem, not theirs. Meanwhile, a company that promised to rescue ransomware victims without paying the criminals stands accused of... paying the criminals. ProPublica's Renee Dudley was on the case years before the indictment. Plus, Dropzone AI's Edward Wu asks what happens when AI models break out of their test environment and go hacking, and whether AI agents can help overstretched security teams keep up. All this and more in episode 491 of the "Smashing Security" podcast with cybersecurity expert and keynote speaker Graham Cluley, and special guest Renee Dudley.
The Hacker News
For many organizations, Active Directory (AD) service accounts are quiet afterthoughts, persisting in the background long after their original purpose has been forgotten. To make matters worse, these orphaned service accounts (created for legacy applications, scheduled tasks, automation scripts, or test environments) are often left active with non-expiring or stale passwords. It’s no surprise