Security News

Open MongoDB databases are being targeted by criminals who are deleting the contents and asking for a ransom.

The U.S. intelligence committee is expected to publish an unclassified report on Russia's involvement with influencing the presidential election.

In addition to encrypting files, a new strain of ransomware, FireCrypt, also attempts to carry out a weak DDoS attack.

Security researcher and activist Claudio Guarnieri talks to Mike Mimoso about a new project announced last week at the Chaos Communication Congress called Security Without Borders.

The FTC announced the IoT Home Inspector Challenge, a contest with the goal of coming up with a patching solution fit for consumer-grade connected devices used in the home.

Burlington Electric Department general manager Neale Lunderville speaks out about last week's incident and response to reports the electric grid had been hacked.

Google patched a critical hole in its problematic Android Mediaserver component that could have allowed an attacker to use email, web browsing, and MMS processing of media files to remotely execute code.

Kaspersky Lab's Costin Raiu talks about the benefits of taking the YARA training class available at SAS 2017.

Confidential documents and data belonging to Box.com users were accessible via search engine queries. Box.com has "fixed" the issue.

The rush to connect a security incident at a Vermont utility to Russian government hackers is more evidence of the challenges around attribution.