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Apple Is Finally Encrypting iCloud Backups

Schneier on Security

After way too many years, Apple is finally encrypting iCloud backups : Based on a screenshot from Apple, these categories are covered when you flip on Advanced Data Protection: device backups, messages backups, iCloud Drive, Notes, Photos, Reminders, Safari bookmarks, Siri Shortcuts, Voice Memos, and Wallet Passes.

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More on Appleā€™s iPhone Backdoor

Schneier on Security

The design wasn’t restricted to a specific category of content; a service could simply swap in any content-matching database, and the person using that service would be none the wiser.

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Leak of Russian Censorship Data

Schneier on Security

The data is split into two main categories: a series of over 360,000 files totalling in at 526.9GB and which date up to as recently as March 5, and then two databases that are 290.6GB in size, according to Distributed Denial of Secrets’ website. The Republic of Bashkortostan is in the west of the country. […].

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SQL Injection in Todayā€™s Landscape

Veracode Security

In other words, an attacker can change a database query to: Read sensitive data Modify the database Execute other database functions Break authentication Lead to remote code execution Now with almost all web applications having integrations with databases in some way, this flaw has the potential to arise often.

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Secrets Detection: An Emerging AppSec Category

Security Boulevard

Applications are no longer standalone monoliths, they now rely on thousands of independent building blocks: cloud infrastructure, databases, SaaS components such as Stripe, Slack and HubSpot, just to name a few. The post Secrets Detection: An Emerging AppSec Category appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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How Machine Learning Can Accelerate and Improve the Accuracy of Sensitive Data Classification

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

While an organization might already know the location of structured data such as a primary customer database store, unstructured data (such as that found in stray files and emails) is more difficult to locate. Figure 2 shows the category distribution by business department for all documents in a selected data store.

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Popular Android apps with 142.5 million collective installs leak user data

Security Affairs

In light of this, we at CyberNews decided to analyze over a thousand top apps on Google Play and see how many were storing their data on Firebase real-time databases insecurely. On September 14, CyberNews researchers reported their findings to Google and asked them to help the developers of the exposed apps secure their real-time databases.

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