The finance department has accidentally shared confidential commercial information for the second time as new data reveals the number of human errors behind government data breaches. The department has confirmed that last week it emailed 236 suppliers, and that the email included “embedded information with some third-party confidential information”. The shadow finance minister, Jane Hume, […]
Mercedes-Benz accidentally exposed a trove of internal data after leaving a private key online that gave “unrestricted access” to the company’s source code, according to the security research firm that discovered it. Shubham Mittal, co-founder and chief technology officer of RedHunt Labs, alerted TechCrunch to the exposure and asked for help in disclosing to the […]
Microsoft accidentally revealed a huge trove of sensitive internal information dating back over three years via a public GitHub repository, it has emerged. Cloud security firm Wiz discovered the privacy snafu when it found the GitHub repository “robust-models-transfer” which belonged to Microsoft’s AI research division. Although the repository was meant only to provide access to […]