Researchers scan 10 million websites and uncover thousands of exposed API keys quietly granting access to cloud systems and ...

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Meryl Kornfield and Elizabeth Dwoskin can be reached securely on Signal at @merylkornfield.59 and @lizza_dwoskin.42 The Social Security Administration’s internal watchdog is investigating a complaint ...

AI Economy: A team of three developers in Mexico is facing a roughly 455× increase in monthly AI service expenses after an API key associated with their project was allegedly compromised. The key was ...

Google API keys for services like Maps embedded in accessible client-side code could be used to authenticate to the Gemini AI assistant and access private data. Researchers found nearly 3,000 such ...

Americans’ personal data — including names, Social Security numbers and addresses — are in the middle of a national-security disaster and should be investigated by Congress, says one Social Security ...

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Cloud platforms have reshaped how organizations store, process, and share information, but they also introduce new risks to business data. Misconfigured storage, weak credentials, and unmanaged access ...

Employees detailed to the Social Security Administration shared sensitive data through a nonsecure server, the Justice Department disclosed. By Eileen Sullivan Reporting from Washington Employees with ...

A Department of Government Efficiency employee shared Social Security data without agency officials’ knowledge and in violation of security protocols, the Justice Department said in a court filing ...