An estimated 35,000 Elasticsearch clusters exposed to the public Internet are potential victims to a series ransom attacks that have already hit over 33,000 MongoDB databases.
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Serious Flaws Found in Aerospike Database Server
Researchers at Cisco Talos have identified several potentially serious vulnerabilities in Aerospike Database Server, including remote code execution and information disclosure issues.
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Mobile Forensics Firm Cellebrite Hacked
A hacker claims to have stolen hundreds of gigabytes of data from Cellebrite, the Israel-based mobile forensics company rumored to have helped the FBI hack an iPhone belonging to the terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook.
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Microsoft Launches Privacy Dashboard
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Continue readingA Positive Prognosis for Digital Value in the Healthcare Industry
With Effective Security, Healthcare Organizations Can Take Advantage of Opportunities to Enable Innovation and Growth with Greater Speed, Efficiency, and Agility
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Shadow Brokers “Retire” Awaiting Offer of 10,000 Bitcoins for Cache of Exploits
The mysterious hacking group calling themselves “The Shadow Brokers” has apparently decided to put an end to their failed attempts to sell exploits and hacking tools they claimed to have stolen from the NSA-linked Equation Group.
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EyePyramid Malware Unsophisticated But Effective: Researchers
The EyePyramid malware used to steal information from Italian politicians, bankers and business leaders is not very sophisticated, but, as many successful espionage operations have shown, it doesn’t need to be.
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New Ploutus ATM Malware Variant at Large
A new variant of the Ploutus ATM (automated teller machine) malware was recently observed, capable of interacting with KAL’s Kalignite multivendor ATM platform, FireEye security researchers warn.
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Google Announces New Cloud Key Management System
Google has launched a beta version of a new Cloud Key Management System (KMS) to supplement the existing Google-managed server-side encryption and customer-controlled on-premise key management. It has broadened, it claims, "the continuum of encryption options available on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)." The beta KMS is currently available in 49 countries.
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GoDaddy Revokes Nearly 9,000 SSL Certificates
GoDaddy informed customers this week that it has revoked nearly 9,000 SSL certificates after discovering a software bug that made its domain validation process unreliable.
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