No honor among thieves: Crooks seeking ransom for MongoDB data someone else stole

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It took less than a week for criminals to drain virtually all publicly exposed MongoDB servers of their data, and now a second tier of opportunistic thieves is trying to walk off with the ransom.

When attackers initially deleted the data, sometimes terabytes at a time, they left ransom notes demanding payments in bitcoin.

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Top tips (not including anti-virus) for protecting your Android from malware – Graham Cluley Security News

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Graham Cluley Security News

Top tips (not including anti-virus) for protecting your Android from malware
Graham Cluley Security News
As part of the official remediation strategy, Check Point remind users to download and install the latest Android updates as soon as they become available – including important security updates that help keep your device protected. Here's how to do that:.

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‘Pentagon Was Hacked Too’: Piyush Goyal On Security For Digital Payments – NDTV

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'Pentagon Was Hacked Too': Piyush Goyal On Security For Digital Payments
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Minutes after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi began an ambitious new mobile-phone-payment application in December, several clones of the app popped up at Android smartphone stores. In the first few days, users were flooded with spam requests for …

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As authentication options blossom, startup tries to simplify deployment, maintain flexibility

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A startup with a strong pedigree is trying to address the problem that businesses have keeping up with the ever-increasing options for authentication.

Transmit Security is shipping a server platform that off-loads the authentication chores that would otherwise reside within applications, making it simpler to roll out authentication in the first place and to upgrade it later without ever touching the applications themselves.

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