There is a line of thought among the public that “the internet is forever.” A security company published research Tuesday that showed why “forever” can be a security nightmare. Over the course of four months, cybersecurity researchers at watchTowr monitored and ultimately took control of what they referred to as “abandoned” digital infrastructure, focusing on…
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Malicious hackers have their own shadow IT problem
Every chief information security officer worth their salt spends time thinking about the problem of shadow IT in their enterprise. Systems, hardware or infrastructure that might have been connected to your network years ago, for reasons no one can remember, were then summarily forgotten until years later when they become an entry point in a…