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Today, cybersecurity isn’t just about protecting data but about protecting operations, reputation, and trust. Unfortunately, many organizations continue to operate under the false assumption that their security posture is strong because they’ve checked off compliance boxes—only to be blindsided when a breach occurs.

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A third-party data breach is a security incident where an organization's sensitive data is compromised or stolen due to a vulnerability or cyber attack on one of its third party vendors. This type of breach happens outside the primary organization's own IT infrastructure but still impacts them, as the third-party vendor, contractor, or service provider has access to their data.

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The world of cyber security is dynamically sophisticated, and many corporate brands have faced highly evolved breaches. The recent news about HPE(Hewlett Packard Enterprise) hacking has alarmed the tech industries worldwide. IntelBroker his tea named CyberNiggers operating on the dark web, took credit for a breach that exposed sensitive data and access credentials tied to HPE. This breach, unfolding over two days, serves as a sober reminder of vulnerabilities in even the most well-resourced organizations.

How much thought goes into your passwords? Most internet users today know that they need strong, complex, multi-value characters in their access codes. Fewer understand how their password interacts with the cybersecurity of a hosting platform or website. As far as personal cybersecurity is concerned, the longer a password is, the better the personal protection; however, having a strong password is only half of the story.

Social engineering and phishing are involved in 70% - 90% of data breaches. No other root cause of malicious hacking (e.g., unpatched software and firmware, eavesdropping, cryptography attacks, physical theft, etc.) comes close. In fact, if you add up all other causes for successful cyberattacks together, they do not come close to equaling the damage done by social engineering and phishing alone.

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.

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