Feb 7, 2017 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
In late December 2016, we revealed that IHG had hired a security consultant to investigate whether they had been subject of a data-breach. Now we can confirm that the data breach is verified by IHG themselves in a press release issued late last Friday. IHG said it...
Jan 26, 2017 | Data Breaches
The Police Department in Cockrell Hill, Texas has admitted in a press release that they have lost years worth of evidence after the department’s server was encrypted in a ransomware attack. Lost evidence included all body camera video, some in-car video, some...
Jan 23, 2017 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
Kroll is reporting that 85% of executives say they were hit with a cyber incident in the past year in their 2016/2017 Kroll Annual Global Fraud and Risk Report. Malicious insiders post the biggest threat. 33% of survey respondents suffered one or more virus attacks...
Jan 23, 2017 | Data Breaches, General Security
U.S. data breaches tracked in 2016 hit an all-time record high of 1,093, according to a new report by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) and CyberScout (formerly IDT911). “With support from CyberScout, the ITRC has been able to heighten its efforts in tracking...
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...
