Natura Data Breach Exposes Millions of Customer Records In a significant cybersecurity incident, Brazil’s largest cosmetics firm, Natura, inadvertently left a vast trove of sensitive consumer information exposed online. A recent investigation revealed that the company neglected to secure hundreds of gigabytes of data, leading to potential unauthorized access to…
Encryption & Key Management, Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development, Security Operations Rising Enterprise Applications and International Initiatives Propel Us Into a Quantum Future Brian Pereira (creed_digital) • November 14, 2025 Image: Shutterstock In 2025, quantum computing has risen to prominence, particularly due to the surge in discussions surrounding post-quantum cryptography.…
On Tuesday, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) imposed a fine of €17 million (approximately $18.6 million) on Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and WhatsApp, due to a series of security failures that breached the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The DPC determined that Meta Platforms…
A severe security vulnerability has been identified in the Amazon WorkSpaces client for Linux, posing a substantial risk for organizations utilizing AWS’s virtual desktop infrastructure. This flaw, designated as CVE-2025-12779, allows malicious local users to extract valid authentication tokens, leading to unauthorized access to other users’ Workspace sessions. On November…
In a significant cybersecurity case, a former Amazon employee has been convicted for her involvement in the theft of sensitive personal information from over 100 million individuals during the 2019 Capital One breach. This case underscores the potential vulnerabilities associated with large cloud service providers and the risks businesses face…
Recent cybersecurity research has identified a significant campaign, known as EMERALDWHALE, which exploits exposed Git configurations to extract credentials, clone private repositories, and even obtain cloud service credentials embedded in source code. This operation has reportedly compromised over 10,000 private repositories, with the stolen data stored in an Amazon S3…
A significant outage affecting Amazon Web Services (AWS) commenced early Monday morning, severely disrupting various sectors including communication, finance, healthcare, education, and government platforms globally. The incident, originating from AWS’s critical US-EAST-1 region in northern Virginia, highlighted the internet’s intricate and delicate interdependencies. The outage began around 3 am ET…
At the close of August, Anthropic, a notable AI firm, publicly affirmed that its chatbot, Claude, would not be involved in assisting with the construction of nuclear weapons. This announcement came on the heels of a strategic partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Nuclear Security…
Title: CloudFront Access Blockage Disrupts Service Availability In a recent incident, users encountered a significant disruption as a request intended for a specific online service was unable to be satisfied. This incident is attributed to configurations within the Amazon CloudFront service, which is designed to provide content delivery and caching.…
