Submarine cables severed, Microsoft's BlueBleed, Health system breach - CISO Series

Internet connectivity worldwide impacted by severed EU subsea cables

A major internet subsea fiber cable in the South of France was severed yesterday at 20:30 UTC, causing connectivity problems in Europe, Asia, and the United States, including data packet losses and increased website response latency. Repair crews moved quickly on the scene but had to wait for the police to collect evidence before they were allowed to work on restoring the damage. At the same time, another subsea cable linking the Shetland Islands to the Scottish mainland has been damaged, too, leaving netizens on the island isolated from the rest of the world. This latter case has been confirmed to have been caused by a fishing trawler.

Microsoft BlueBleed customer data leak claimed to be ‘one of the largest’ in years

Microsoft has confirmed a data leak linked to a misconfigured server for a cloud storage service but is disputing the extent of the problem. In a report released this week, threat intelligence firm SOCRadar revealed that the misconfigured server exposed sensitive data including proof-of-execution and statement-of-work documents, user information, product offers and orders, project details, personally identifiable information (PII), and possibly intellectual property. SOCRadar said that its Cloud Security Module monitors “public buckets” to detect exposed customer data and that six large public buckets contained information from more than 150,000 companies in 123 countries. The company is...

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