You know it’s a bad day for cybersecurity when a leading provider of internet firewall services that helps safeguard websites from malicious attacks suffers from a security breach of its own. Imperva, a popular California-based security vendor, disclosed that data belonging to an unspecified subset of users of its cloud firewall product was exposed online. The breach, to which it was alerted via an unnamed third party on August 20, included email addresses, and hashed and salted passwords, API keys, and SSL certificates of its customers registered since September 15, 2017. Imperva’s Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) — formerly called…
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