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Lessons learned from last year's security snafu interview Being the chief information security officer at Snowflake is never an easy job, but last spring it was especially challenging.…

That's the way the cookie melts A US Army soldier suspected of hacking AT&T and Verizon has admitted leaking online people's private call records.…

The Department of Justice has unsealed the indictment against two suspected Snowflake hackers, who breached more than 165 organizations using the services of the Snowflake cloud storage company. [...]

A Canadian and an American living in Turkey 'walk into' cloud storage environments… Two men allegedly compromised what's believed to be multiple organizations' Snowflake-hosted cloud environments,...

Also: Crypto hacks will continue; CoD hacker gets thousands banned, and more in brief One of the suspected masterminds behind the widespread Snowflake breach has been arrested in Canada – but the...

Canadian authorities have arrested a man suspected of having stolen the data of hundreds of millions after targeting over 165 organizations, all of them customers of cloud storage company Snowflake. [...]

Canadian law enforcement authorities have arrested an individual who is suspected to have conducted a series of hacks stemming from the breach of cloud data warehousing platform Snowflake earlier...

Now it's the default for all new accounts Snowflake continues to push forward in strengthening its users' cybersecurity posture by making multi-factor authentication the default for all new accounts.…

Kettle For this week's Kettle episode, in which our journos as usual get together for an end-of-week chat about the news, it's security, security, security. From more than 100 million people hit by the staggering AT&T Snowflake storage account intrusion, to the latest marketing claims of AI coming to save our systems from attacks, we've packed a decent amount into 15 minutes - and you can replay our discussion below.

Advance Auto Parts' CISO just revealed for the first time the number of individuals affected when criminals broke into its Snowflake instance - a hefty 2.3 million. Steiger's letter also said Advance Auto Parts became aware of the intrusion on May 23, but now understands that the cybercriminal(s) behind the attack maintained access to its Snowflake instance between April 14 and May 24.