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The Walt Disney Company is reportedly ditching Slack after a July data breach exposed over 1TB of confidential messages and files posted to the company's internal communication channels. [...]

In the digital realm, secrets (API keys, private keys, username and password combos, etc.) are the keys to the kingdom. But what if those keys were accidentally left out in the open in the very...

Nowadays, sensitive and critical data is traveling in everyday business channels that offer only the basic level of security and encryption, and companies are often oblivious to the risk. A case...

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42% of businesses report employees with BYOD devices in business settings that use tools like WhatsApp have led to new security incidents, according to SafeGuard Cyber. Messaging platforms like WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, and Teams face constant threats, emphasizing the need for robust protection.

GitHub has announced an improvement to its secret scanning feature that extends validity checks to popular services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google, and Slack. Validity...

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It won't be until Slack offers E2EE as well as blocking, muting and reporting features to help protect users from harassment, they claim. "Millions of people use Slack every day to do their work, volunteer, and connect with communities online - including abortion funds and reproductive rights groups that are being targeted by anti-abortion efforts," Caitlin Seeley George, Fight for the Future's campaigns and managing director, told The Register.

Slack suffered a security incident over the holidays affecting some of its private GitHub code repositories. BleepingComputer has come across a security incident notice issued by Slack on December 31st, 2022.

If we turn back the clock to five years ago, that's when Slack started leaking hashed passwords. If you're a Slack user, I would assume that if they didn't realise they were leaking hashed passwords for five years, maybe they didn't quite enumerate the list of people affected completely either.