As per tradition, in the beginning of new month we are sharing with you the most notable Information Security incidents. In August, we had the following events: a nightmare for League of Legends fans, the largest leak in US history, and another Microsoft outage. 

Premature premiere

What happened: future Netflix novelties leaked online due to an attack on the contractor.

How it happened: on 9 August, episodes of Netflix anime and animated series that had not yet been released began to appear on soci

We've put together the major new features in SearchInform products for the first half of 2024 and showed how they work.

1. ADVANCED CONTROL OF MESSENGERS 

SearchInform DLP continues to expand the list of monitored messengers. Since the beginning of 2024, the system has been intercepting data from Google Chat and current versions of popular business messengers such as Skype for Business. In total, DLP now has covered more than 60 instant messaging services.

DLP has implemented new features for famil

As summer’s second month wraps up, we hope you have had some time to relax or are heading off on a vacation. To add a splash of excitement to your workdays, we share a compilation of sizzling summer IS incidents. In this edition: the latest twist in the Snowflake saga, the adventures of robots.txt, and the case of meme-coin theft.

Showleak sequel

What happened: AT&T experienced its largest data breach ever.

How it happened: Attackers accessed AT&T's database through the company's Snowflake account.

It's time to share our traditional monthly roundup of major IS incidents. In May's edition, we'll reveal: the case of an unscrupulous medical company; accidental data leak caused by the SaaS vendor; consequences of the India's largest electronics manufacturer negligence.

ANALYTICAL MISCALCULATION

What happened: major US company Sisense fell victim of a cyberattack.

How it happened: on 11 April, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Agency (CISA) reported that a major US company, Sisens

In our traditional monthly digest, we've gathered a bunch of recent information security incidents. In February's edition, we’ll reveal, how with the help of deepfakes intruders managed to steal millions of dollars from a multinational company’s financier; how an employee bankrupted a publishing house with a 40-year history; how data of almost every second French citizens ended up in the hands of hackers. 

ALMOST DIDN'T BELIEVE IT

What happened: an employee of a multinational company transferred $

Thai shipbuilding company under the oversight of the Ministry of Defence relies on SearchInform's fraud and data leakage prevention solution to secure sensitive data. 

Bangkok Dock Limited has deployed a leakage prevention solution, next gen DLP RiskMonitor developed by SearchInform to meet the regulation requirements, identify internal threats and prevent privacy breaches.
 
Before deploying the solution, Bangkok Dock tested Risk Monitor to see how it can enhance the level of information security.

Thai beverage company, the major drinks and tea producer deployed SearchInform’s DLP to eliminate internal threats to information security.
 
Ichitan had a request for a data leakage prevention system that would enable the company to classify sensitive data and prevent unauthorized access and forwarding of data by users who do not have the necessary permissions to handle it. 

After analyzing several solutions in the market, it took advantage of the option provided by SearchInform to test the next

This was revealed by the survey conducted by SearchInform and NEXTA ÇÖZÜM.

SearchInform, the leading global risk management product developer, together with its partner NEXTA ÇÖZÜM, IT consultant and distributor, surveyed representatives of 100 Turkish leading companies to find out how their experts ensure data leaks protection, whether they are planning to increase data security budgets and what data channels their security officers consider the riskiest.

CIOs and CISOs, who took part in the surv