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Study: 60% of Major US Firms Have Been Hacked in Cloud
Hackers have penetrated cloud computing networks of some 60 percent of top US companies, with virtually all industry sectors hit, security researchers said Tuesday.
Researchers at the enterprise security firm Proofpoint said they detected over 15 million unauthorized login attempts to cloud computing networks of US Fortune 500 firms in the first six months of 2019, of which 400,000 were successful.
[...] In analyzing some 20 million user accounts in more than 1,000 cloud deployments, the study found 92 percent of the Fortune 500 companies surveyed were targeted by cyber attacks.
It found 60 percent of the companies had allowed attackers into their cloud networks and six percent had an unauthorized login to an executive account.
Log everything, identify aberrations, and act quickly.
(Score: 5, Funny) by c0lo on Thursday September 26 2019, @07:56AM (3 children)
Like the case for IoT, the S in the cloud stands for security.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday September 26 2019, @01:52PM
The SH in IoT stands for Security Hardened.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by progo on Thursday September 26 2019, @03:33PM (1 child)
The 'o' in cloud stands for the many onerous security theater steps I have to go through in my job to get anything done.
No one knows how to just secure a resource behind SSH.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday September 26 2019, @06:15PM
That would work if nobody could ever access that resource over SSH.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.