Security News

Hadoop, CouchDB Next Targets in Wave of Database Attacks (Threatpost)
2017-01-20 19:18

Insecure Hadoop and CouchDB installations are the latest attack targets of cybercriminals who are hijacking and deleting stolen data.

Hello Kitty Database of 3.3 Million Breached Credentials Surfaces (Threatpost)
2017-01-09 19:41

A database of 3.3 million Hello Kitty users tied to a 2015 breach surfaced over the weekend exposing thousands of minors to potential credential theft.

Michigan State University database with 400,000 student and staff records breached (Help Net Security)
2016-11-21 21:35

Michigan State University has announced on Friday that a university server and a database containing information on some 400,000 faculty, staff and students has been accessed by a unauthorised...

Fraudsters accessed Three UK customer database with authorised credentials (Help Net Security)
2016-11-18 18:23

Three UK, a telecom and ISP operating in the United Kingdom, has suffered a data breach. According to Three’s status report on the investigation, the attackers were able to access the company’s...

Millions of job seekers’ info exposed via easily accessible database backups (Help Net Security)
2016-11-11 17:07

A data leak has exposed sensitive information about millions of job seekers that used global recruitment firm Michael Page. The leak has once again been revealed to the leaking company through...

Cerber ransomware menace now targeting databases (The Register)
2016-11-07 08:13

Vuln hunter finds nasty shared server god mode database hack holes (The Register)
2016-11-03 05:42

Facial recognition out of control? Half of US adults have their faces on police databases (ZDNet)
2016-10-20 13:21

Cerber Ransomware Can Now Kill Database Processes (SecurityWeek)
2016-10-07 02:52

FBI director: More 'attempted intrusions' in voter databases (Yahoo Security)
2016-09-28 21:36