#cloud-security

#cloud-security

Cloud computing forms the backbone of our increasingly digital world, enabling businesses to operate more efficiently, grow faster, and innovate with flexibility. Despite its advantages, the cloud is not immune to data breaches caused by weak security practices. Alarmingly, some of the biggest risks do not stem from technical errors or malicious hackers but from the very people responsible for protecting cloud resources: security professionals themselves.

Cloud costs are your canary in the coal mine - and a security signal too. Imagine you're staring at your cloud dashboard, and bam - a sudden spike in spending hits you. It's not just burning cash; it's waving a red flag for potential security holes. That unexplained surge in Kubernetes pods? Could be a sneaky cryptojacker. Or those idle EC2 instances racking up bills?

Darktrace introduces the industry's first fully automated cloud forensics solution. Forensic Acquisition & Investigation aims to reduce investigation times from days to minutes by collecting evidence immediately when threats are detected. A survey of 300 cloud security decision-makers shows that nearly 90 percent of organizations suffer damage before they can contain cloud incidents. Additionally, investigations in cloud environments take three to five days longer than those in on-premises environments.

A new report from Senate Democrats claims members of Elon Musk's DOGE team have access to the Social Security Numbers of all Americans in a cloud server lacking verified security measures, despite an internal assessment of potential "catastrophic" risk. The report, released by Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI), cites numerous disclosures from whistleblowers, including one who said a worst-case scenario could involve having to re-issue SSNs to everyone in the country.

ZDNET's key takeaways The FBI warned about the alarming trend of compromised accounts. The success rate of threat actors could tarnish Salesforce's reputation. The most recent wave of attacks was likely preventable.

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Academic researchers from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam have demonstrated that transient execution CPU vulnerabilities are practical to exploit in real-world scenarios to leak memory from VMs running on public cloud services. The research shows that L1TF (L1 Terminal Fault), also known as Foreshadow, a bug in Intel processors reported in January 2018, and half-Spectre, gadgets believed unexploitable on new-generation CPUs, as they cannot directly leak secret data, can be used together to leak data from the public cloud.

Microsoft built security controls around identity like conditional access and logs, but this internal impression token mechanism bypasses them all,

ChatGPT's research assistant sprung a leak - since patched - that let attackers steal Gmail secrets with just a single carefully crafted email. Deep Research, a tool unveiled by OpenAI in February, enables users to ask ChatGPT to browse the internet or their personal email inbox and generate a detailed report on its findings. The tool can be integrated with apps like Gmail and GitHub, allowing people to do deep dives into their own documents and messages without ever leaving the chat window.

SecurityWeek's Attack Surface Management Virtual Summit is now LIVE and runs today from 11AM - 4PM ET. Join the online event where cybersecurity leaders and practitioners will dive into the strategies, tools, and innovations shaping the future of ASM. As digital assets and cloud services continue to expand, defenders are shifting tactics to continuously discover, inventory, classify, prioritize, and monitor their attack surfaces.

Two researchers reported finding serious vulnerabilities, including ones that expose employee information and drive-through orders, in systems run by Restaurant Brands International (RBI), which owns the Tim Hortons, Burger King and Popeyes brands. The vulnerabilities were reported to the vendor and quickly fixed. In addition, RBI said the system targeted by the researchers is still in early development. However, the company still sent a DMCA complaint to the researchers to force them to remove the blog post detailing their findings.

Cloud storage is used by most businesses, with 78% of respondents to a 2024 PwC survey indicating they've adopted cloud across most of their organizations. But many firms are unknowingly opening themselves up to security and data protection risks: sensitive data is being held in 9% of publicly-accessible cloud storage, and 97% of this information is classified as restricted or confidential, according to Tenable's 2025 Cloud Security Risk Report.

SLAs typically cover metrics like uptime, support response times and service performance, but often overlook critical elements such as data protection, breach response and regulatory compliance. This creates a responsibility gap, where assumptions about who is accountable can lead to serious blind spots. For instance, a customer might assume that the cloud provider's SLA guarantees data protection, only to realise that their own misconfigurations or weak identity management practices have led to a data breach.

The complaint from Charles Borges, the chief data officer at the SSA, alleges that Doge staffers effectively created a live copy of the entire country's social security data from its numerical identification system database. The information is a goldmine for bad actors, the complaint alleges, and was placed on a server without independent oversight that only Doge officials could access.

Is Wiz giving you solid visibility but falling short on real-time remediation, host-level telemetry, or network traffic analysis? Safe to say, you're not the only one noticing the gaps. As cloud environments become increasingly complex, security teams require tools that identify risks and help mitigate them. This blog post breaks down some of the best Wiz competitors that fill in those missing pieces. Stick around till the end to see how ClickUp (yes, the productivity platform!) supports efficient cloud security collaboration. 🔐

The 'castle and moat' idea has gone from outdated to outright dangerous as applications and users have scattered across public clouds, SaaS platforms, and more.

Immutable backups prevent ransomware and ensure data integrity, meeting compliance needs with secure, tamper-proof cloud data protection. They safeguard critical data effectively.

One corrupt table or misconfigured bucket can stall an entire supply chain run. Fortunately, a clear-headed backup strategy turns that existential threat into a five-minute inconvenience.

As we prepare for the second half of 2025, investors should focus on stocks in the AI and cloud security sectors, which offer strong growth potential.

According to Erik de Jong, the Wiz acquisition could be detrimental to customers; consolidation in the market rarely leads to lower prices.

NordPass has introduced 'Documents', a cloud-based encrypted vault for secure storage of vital documents, enhancing user convenience and security.

The new approach, which will be available with the launch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, offers users preconfigured, ready-to-use images designed to handle the unique characteristics of different hyperscalers.

Failing to recognize the need for CAM leads to additional problems. The financial aspect is the most paramount and urgent. Untracked and unmanaged resources such as idle virtual machines or overallocated storage accumulate costs that are often unnoticed until they appear on a bloated monthly statement.

It was an unfortunate situation that our customers went through, and we've really pivoted from a shared-security model to more of a shared-destiny model with our customers.

Quantum computing is fast approaching, threatening cloud security - leaders must act now to defend the emergence of data as new cryptographic risks.