Category: Privacy & Compliance

Ransomware targets MongoDB and threatens to report GDPR breach

Ransomware targets MongoDB and threatens to report GDPR breach

An anonymous hacker is running ransomware attacks that targets 22,900 MongoDB databases. When the attack is successful it threatens victims to report them to the authorities for breaching the GDPR legislation. As long as they pay a certain amount of money in cryptocurrency they won't be reported. ... Read more

date4 years ago
Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google will testify before Congress

Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google will testify before Congress

The CEOs of Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google are ready to testify before Congress as part of the lawmaker’s inquiry into competitive practices in the technology industry. The news of the CEO's participation was announced on Twitter by Record co-founder Kara Swisher, but the official confir... Read more

date4 years ago
Web admins are advised to update their Magento stores

Web admins are advised to update their Magento stores

Magento has advised users of Magento Open Source 1 and Magento Commerce 1 e-commerce platforms to download the latest updates. The discovery of two security threats has necessitated this. The most dangerous and critical error is a PHP object injection bug that could result in random code executi... Read more

date4 years ago
Apple acquires Fleetsmith, an expert in remote device management

Apple acquires Fleetsmith, an expert in remote device management

Now, more than ever, IT departments have had to help employees set up their devices so they can work remotely and efficiently manage their devices. A service that makes this process easy to do can come in handy. Apple knows this, and for that reason, they acquired Fleetsmith. Fleetsmith is a sta... Read more

date4 years ago
It is a new dawn as Amazon launches $2B venture capital fund

It is a new dawn as Amazon launches $2B venture capital fund

Today, Amazon announced that it will set up a 2 billion dollars project capital fund to back firms developing sustainable technologies and services. The investment venture, dumped Climate Pledge Fund, comes at the right time as the giant store had declared its efforts to become net carbon-neutra... Read more

date4 years ago
Industrial cybersecurity start-up CyberX bought by Microsoft

Industrial cybersecurity start-up CyberX bought by Microsoft

The industrial cybersecurity start-up CyberX is the latest acquisition of Microsoft. The deal was made in May of 2019, but now became public. Microsoft paid 165 million dollars for the startup. CyberX was started in 2013 by former military cybersecurity experts to provide industrial cybersecurit... Read more

date4 years ago
Adobe requests users to remove Flash Player this year

Adobe requests users to remove Flash Player this year

Users of Adobe Flash Player will soon receive a notification to uninstall the software before the end of the year. The reason is that support for Adobe Flash Player will end on the 31st of December. Adobe is taking the necessary steps to inform users that support for Adobe Flash Player ... Read more

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