Information security
fromTheregister
2 days agoThe company's biggest security hole lived in the breakroom
An internet-connected coffee machine caused a major data breach by exploiting security vulnerabilities in a corporate network.
That's according to an analysis by Bugcrowd, which found the last year has seen a massive 88% increase in hardware vulnerabilities and a doubling in network flaws. In a new report, Inside the Mind of a CISO 2025: Resilience in an AI-Accelerated World, the firm said that 81% of security researchers had encountered new hardware vulnerabilities in the past 12 months.