MOVEit
At the end of May 2023, MOVEit, a data transfer program, fell victim to a Ransomware attack ONE DAY after vulnerability in the program was made public. Reuters announced the attack on 1 June 2023, and on 7 June the hackers made their terms known.
The personal data of a large number of users, including over 100,000 employees of British Airways and BOOTS, to name but these two companies, could have been compromised.
VPN
- A database containing more than 360 million SuperVPN user records has been found publicly accessible on the web. Confidential information such as e-mail addresses and geolocation data are thus made public.
- GeckoVPN and ChatVPN: 21 million users' details, including payment details, circulate on dark web forums.
These incidents should draw our attention both to the security of the file transfer systems on the market and to the dangers of vulnerabilities being disclosed.
When you use the services of a third party, you can never be sure of the level of security surrounding the service on offer. The same applies to the Cloud, VPN and all the applications and programs available on the market but whose server is located on a third party's premises.
The best FILE TRANSFER SYSTEMS and VPNs are those whose server is on your premises and which you have duly protected. This is the case with SydeCloud©, PT SYDECO's file transfer system which is protected by ARCHANGEL© 2.0, Firewall of Next Generation and whose data transfer is carried out by VPN whose server is integrated into ARCHANGEL© 2.0 and therefore duly protected. This is PT SYDECO's Integrated Protection System which includes ARCHANGEL© NGFW, VPN and SydeCloud© servers in a single box.
We might also ask ourselves whether the disclosure of vulnerabilities is not a call to hacking, especially as the creators of the programs do not immediately repair the vulnerabilities and, in the majority of cases, users do not update their systems.
Wouldn't it be better for these vulnerability alerts to be made known only to the program creators and not in the public arena?
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