Established in 1920, Scholastic is an American-based multinational and the largest publisher and distributor of children’s books globally. The company’s global headquarters is in New York City. It offers digital and print resources to support learning for pre-kindergarten to grade 12 students. Some of the corporation’s popular children's book series are Clifford the Big Red Dog, Harry Potter, Goosebumps, SPY, Animorphs, and Hunger Games.

Recently, the security team at LEAKD.COM discovered that about 5 million United States credit cards and users’ personal details had been leaked online. This discovery came about when the security team found 5 terabytes of sensitive data exposed on an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket, a cloud storage service provided by Amazon Web Services that is used to store customer information. According to the security team at LEAKD.COM, the party responsible for this credit card leak/breach remains unknown.

Imagine this situation: you recently updated one of your infrastructure software components. A few weeks later, you notice your AWS bill has gone up and you’re not sure why. After some digging, you find that the auto-scaler for this component is constantly scaled to the maximum. It takes days to realize that this change in behavior started right after the software update. You start asking around to see if anyone else is having the same issue with this new version.

If there’s one thing development and security teams can agree on, it’s that updating dependencies is a worthwhile endeavor. Keeping open-source dependencies up to date reduces bugs—both now and in the long run. And whether those bugs are security vulnerabilities or functional issues, everyone is happy to see them go.

At Tines, we take pride in both the flexibility and security of our platform: it’s what allows us to do things like safely connect to any HTTP API in the world, and seamlessly deploy in fully air-gapped environments. Similarly, our AI capabilities have been designed from the ground up to be secure and private, with no logging, internet transit, or training on your data.