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Indian drugmaker , Dr Reddy ’ s Laboratories , said it had isolated all its data centre services as a preventive measure following a cyberattack . Its plants in the United States , United Kingdom , Brazil , India and Russia were impacted . Dr Reddy ’ s Laboratories is conducting an adaptive phase 2 / 3 human clinical trial for the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine in India . Javvad Malik at KnowBe4 , said : “ The pharmaceutical and medical industry has had an intense spotlight shone on it ever since research began to try and find a vaccine for the Coronavirus .”
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Pharmaceutical giant , Pfizer , exposed the personal information of hundreds of prescription drug takers for over two months due to a cloud misconfiguration , according to new research from vpnMentor . A team led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar discovered the Google Cloud Storage bucket containing the data . Tim Erlin , VP at Tripwire , said : “ If you have data in the cloud , you must , absolutely must check the configuration of those data stores for access permissions , and you must do so continuously .”
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