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Cloud Security

AI Agents Are Breaking Cloud Security Faster Than Human Hackers Ever Could

Automated attackers can test thousands of ways into a company's cloud systems in minutes. Most security teams are still thinking at human speed.

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Cloud Security

Nigeria Builds Its Own Cloud to Keep Its Data at Home

West Africa's biggest economy is setting up its own national cloud system, aiming to stop foreign governments from accessing Nigerian data and to make government computer systems harder to attack.

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Cloud Security

Chip Giants Are Racing to Build Quantum-Proof Encryption Into Hardware

Intel, Nvidia, and IBM are baking next-generation encryption into silicon before quantum computers can crack today's secrets. The window to act is already closing.

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Cloud Security

9,300 leaked AWS keys still work, and 768 hand over full control of a company's cloud

Truffle Security tracked exposed Amazon cloud keys for four years. Most were never rotated, and 88% still logged in on the day of testing.

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Cloud Security

Airlock Digital Passes Australia's Toughest Government Security Check

The Australian application control firm has cleared an independent IRAP assessment at PROTECTED level, giving government and critical-infrastructure buyers one more piece of evidence for their due-diligence files.

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Cloud Security

ChatGPT goes dark worldwide as OpenAI scrambles to fix login failures

A global outage starting late Wednesday locked users out of ChatGPT, Codex and a dozen OpenAI API endpoints.

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Cloud Security

Researchers pull a login token out of Cloudflare's edge with a browser-era ghost bug

A Spectre-style side-channel attack ran inside one Cloudflare Worker and quietly read data from another sitting on the same machine, at speeds fast enough to lift a JSON Web Token in seconds.

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Cloud Security

Hackers Are Actively Attacking MLflow and FUXA to Steal Cloud Secrets

Two open-source tools used by AI teams and factory operators are being scanned and broken into in the wild, with attackers using one flaw to grab cloud login keys.

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Cloud Security

GitHub hit by widespread outage, breaking builds and logins for hours

The world's biggest code-sharing site started throwing errors on Monday morning, and developers everywhere felt it.

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Cloud Security

Azure Cloud Data Breach Affects Major Companies

A threat actor used stolen credentials to pull millions of employee records from well-known brands

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Cloud Security

OAuth Tokens Are Quietly Becoming the Skeleton Key to Google Workspace

Phishing gets the headlines, but stolen app tokens can open Gmail and Drive without ever tripping a login alert.

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Cloud Security

Google Cloud Targets 2029 to Be Quantum-Safe, and Here Is What That Means for You

Google has published a detailed plan to protect its cloud from the coming generation of quantum computers. The work is already underway, and parts of it run into the 2030s.

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Cloud Security

A Leaked Password Let Hackers Drain the Donor Databases of More Than 1,000 UK Charities

Beacon, a software company that helps charities manage their supporters, left an access key exposed in public code. Criminals found it, used it, and likely walked off with every record in the system.

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Cloud Security

One Developer Password Unlocked Everything: Inside a Healthcare Software Provider's Wake-Up Call

A company that thought its segmented cloud setup was secure ran a simulated attack and watched a single stolen developer credential unravel four years of layered defences in minutes.

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Cloud Security

Canadian hacker admits to Snowflake data thefts that hit 165 companies and 100 million people

Connor Moucka pleaded guilty to stealing terabytes from Snowflake customer accounts that had no second login step, extorting $2.5 million in bitcoin from victims including AT&T and Ticketmaster.

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