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...
Jan 7, 2017 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
An Energy Department report seeks new powers to deal with attacks and other emergencies. The reports that Russian computer attackers had hacked a Vermont electrical utility company have turned out to be baseless, but the nation’s grid is in “imminent...
