Understanding Security Practices In File Synchronization
Storage Gaga, Saturday, May 13,2023
Ho hum. Another day, and another data leak. What else is new? The latest hullabaloo in my radar was from one of Malaysia's reverent universities, UiTM, which reported a data leak of 11,891 student applicants' private details including MyKad (national identity card) numbers of each individual.
Reading from the news article, one can deduced that the unsecured link mentioned was probably from a cloud storage service, i.e. file synchronization software such as OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc. Those files that can be easily shared via an HTTP/S URL link. Ah, convenience over the data security best practices.
It irks me when data security practices are poorly practised. And it is likely that there is ignorance of data security practices in the first place.