Welcome to this week’s round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Massive data breach potentially exposes entire Brazilian population Researchers have discovered a publicly accessible Elasticsearch instance containing the private data of hundreds of millions of Brazilians, including full names, dates of birth, sex and Cadastro de Pessoas Físicas numbers – the 11-digit number that identifies individual taxpayers.

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By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of NetSfere Using personal messaging apps for business communication and collaboration is harmless – right? Wrong. This practice, which is unfortunately still widespread in […]

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