Jan 12, 2017 | General Security
In the regular dance we like to call the ‘Update Dance’, Microsoft and Adobe each released security updates on Tuesday for software installed on hundreds of millions of computers. Adobe issued an update for both Flash Player and Acrobat/Reader. Microsoft...
Jan 10, 2017 | Data Breaches
Los Angeles Valley College (LAVC) has paid a public record of $28,000 in Bitcoin to extortionists after ransomware encrypted hundreds of thousands of files held on its servers. In a public statement shared on the College’s homepage, LAVC said the unnamed ransomware...
Jan 10, 2017 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
MongoDB is a powerful, flexible and scalable general-purpose database. It is an agile database that allows schemas to change quickly as applications evolve. It is a NoSql Database. It is being held ransom by a MongoDB Ransomware, and the number of compromised database...
Jan 10, 2017 | Data Breaches
A year ago it was announced that 3.3 million database of Hello Kitty fans got exposed. Just over a year later, that status changes to exposed, stolen and published online. This has become a full-on ‘Hello Kitty Breach’. Back in December 2015, Sanrio – the...
Jan 7, 2017 | CyberSecurity
The Federal Trade Commission has voiced concerns in US district court that D-Link products have put consumers’ privacy at risk. In what amounts to a very public rebuke of a company, the US Government department has filed a complaint in a US district court...
