#misconfiguration
5 stories taggedmisconfiguration.

Surfshark Admits Hackers Reached Internal Test Server After Config Slip
The VPN provider says customer traffic and identities were untouched, but engineering credentials and build files sat exposed on the open internet for days.

Cloud Security Isn't One Problem. It's Three.
A new Intruder study of 3,000 organisations finds AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud fail in different ways, and one checklist won't catch them all.

UK Government Investments Agency Exposed Data on 51 Officials for 40 Hours
A security failure at the public body that manages taxpayer stakes in companies like Channel 4 and the Post Office left sensitive management records and personal details of more than 50 civil servants sitting openly accessible online for nearly two days.

A Single Default Setting in Azure Automation Could Have Let Hackers Steal Any Tenant's Cloud Identity
A researcher found that Microsoft's cloud automation service was, by default, leaving account identities visible to the public internet, giving any attacker a path to impersonate other organisations' privileged accounts.

Your Company Uses Hundreds of Cloud Apps. Security Teams Can See Inside Almost None of Them.
Three real breaches show how misconfigured software-as-a-service tools leak customer records, private messages, and source code, all without anyone breaking down a single door.