What it is: The unintentional or deliberate disclosure of sensitive, confidential, or proprietary information to unauthorized individuals, systems, or entities. This can occur through various means, including accidental misconfigurations, inadequate access controls, insider threats, insecure data storage, and vulnerabilities in software…
Weak Passwords and Credential Theft
What it is: A fundamental vulnerability arising from the use of easily guessable or predictable passwords, coupled with the techniques attackers employ to obtain legitimate user credentials. This can include brute-force attacks, dictionary attacks, password spraying, phishing, and exploiting data breaches…
DDoS Attacks (Distributed Denial-of-Service)
What it is: A type of cyberattack that aims to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service, or network by overwhelming it with a flood of internet traffic 1 from multiple compromised computer systems. This coordinated and distributed attack…
Cloud Security Breaches
What it is: Security incidents involving unauthorized access to, or the leakage of, sensitive data or resources hosted within cloud computing environments. This can affect various cloud service models, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and…