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Half of U.S. businesses say that security is the most influential factor when buying software, according to Capterra's Security Features Survey. Digging further, businesses share the types of security features they consider to be "Must-haves." 76% cite data backups as a dealbreaker when choosing software.
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Veeam Software has patched CVE-2023-27532, a high-severity security hole in its widely-used Veeam Backup & Replication solution, and is urging customer to implement the fix as soon as possible. The nature of CVE-2023-27532 has not been explained - Veeam only says that "The vulnerable process, Veeam.Backup.Service.exe, allows an unauthenticated user to request encrypted credentials."
Veeam urged customers to patch a high-severity Backup Service security vulnerability impacting its Backup & Replication software.The flaw was reported in mid-February by a security researcher known as Shanigen, and it affects all Veeam Backup & Replication versions.
CISOs are concerned about the rise of ransomware - not only of the proliferation of attacks but also of their sophistication: "The storage and backup environments are now under attack, as the attackers realize that this is the single biggest determining factor to show if the company will pay the ransom," says George Eapen, Group CIO at Petrofac,. Immutable storage is the simplest way to protect backup data.
Many online stores are exposing private backups in public folders, including internal account passwords, which can be leveraged to take over the e-commerce sites and extort owners. According to a study by website security company Sansec, roughly 12% of online stores forget their backups in public folders due to human error or negligence.
Too many online store administrators are storing private backups in public folders and exposing database passwords, secret API keys, administrator URLs and customer data to attackers who know where to look. The researchers have analyzed 2037 online stores of various sizes and running of various e-commerce platforms and found that 250 of them stored archive files in the public web folder, accessible to all.
GoTo is a well-known brand that owns a range of products, including technologies for teleconferencing and webinars, remote access, and password management. If you've ever used GoTo Webinar, GoToMyPC, or LastPass, you've used a product from the GoTo stable.
LastPass-owner GoTo on Tuesday disclosed that unidentified threat actors were able to steal encrypted backups of some customers' data along with an encryption key for some of those backups in a November 2022 incident."The affected information, which varies by product, may include account usernames, salted and hashed passwords, a portion of multi-factor Authentication settings, as well as some product settings and licensing information," GoTo's Paddy Srinivasan said.
GoTo has confirmed on Monday that attackers have stolen customers' encrypted backups from a third-party cloud storage service related to its Central, Pro, join. The attackers have also managed to grab an encryption key for a portion of the encrypted backups.