Major Canadian Bank Prevents a Potentially Costly Breach Customer Success Story A large Canadian financial institution, who is Flare Systems’ customer and would prefer to remain anonymous, explains how it prevented a potentially costly breach with Firework. Download the Full … Read More
Data Leakage
How to decrease false positives when scanning for committed secrets
How to decrease false positives when scanning for committed secrets In 2019, some 10 million developers joined Github and contributed over 44 million repositories in that year alone. Github is the most popular code repository, with 80% of its users … Read More
How Do Company Secrets Get Leaked Online?
How Do Company Secrets Get Leaked Online? Back in 2017, Facebook suffered a source code leak, initially believed to have been the result of either a developer intentionally leaking it or a security loophole in company servers. The source code … Read More
How Much Would a Technical Leak Cost You in Stolen Cloud Resources?
How Much Would a Technical Leak Cost You in Stolen Cloud Resources? If you have ever wondered how cryptocurrencies like bitcoin or monero issue new currency, the answer is through a competition called cryptocurrency mining. This competition is open to … Read More
How Sudden Policy Changes Put Company Secrets at Risk
How Sudden Policy Changes Put Company Secrets at Risk Popular among developers, Docker Hub has been used for years to share applications and code libraries. In August 2020, Docker reported its service was used by more than 6.5 million developers … Read More
What is technical leakage and how does it happen?
What is technical leakage and how does it happen? In July, more than 50 international companies suffered a source code leak due to software development misconfigurations in DevOps applications, Bleeping Computer writes. The businesses operated in various industries, including technology, … Read More
What risks do unreported data breaches pose for your business?
What risks do unreported data breaches pose for your business? A database of 34 million user account records that were stolen from seventeen companies in 2020 is now for sale on a forum, Bleeping Computer reports. The dump has generated … Read More
Bank Success Story – Monitoring the criminal underground
Major Canadian Bank Chooses Flare Systems to Monitor the Criminal Underground Customer Success Story A large Canadian financial institution, who is Flare Systems’ customer and would prefer to remain anonymous, explains why they chose Firework to monitor the criminal underground … Read More
Why digital risk protection is vital to protect data privacy in enterprise security
Why digital risk protection is vital to protect data privacy in enterprise security Privacy concerns have lately gained some serious momentum, as Daniel Therrien, Canada’s Privacy Commissioner, has warned that existing laws are behind international standards. This stalling appears to … Read More
5 Trends in Loyalty Program Fraud in Canada
5 Trends in Loyalty Program Fraud in Canada Loyalty programs have grown tremendously in the last decade. Memberships rose to 3.8 billion members recently , with a total value of USD$323 billion for the ecosystem. Loyalty program fraud has significantly … Read More