Security News

Web host agrees to pay $1m after it’s hit by Linux-targeting ransomware (ArsTechnica)
2017-06-19 22:52

Windfall payment by poorly secured host is likely to inspire new ransomware attacks.

Web host agrees to pay $1m after it’s hit by Linux-targeting ransomware (ArsTechnica)
2017-06-19 22:52

Windfall payment by poorly secured host is likely to inspire new ransomware attacks.

Web Hosting Provider Pays $1 Million to Ransomware Attackers (Security Week)
2017-06-19 16:15

South Korean web hosting company Nayana agreed to pay $1 million in Bitcoin after a ransomware attack hit 153 Linux servers. read more

Web Hosting Company Pays $1 Million to Ransomware Hackers to Get Files Back (The Hackers News)
2017-06-19 12:43

South Korean web hosting provider has agreed to pay $1 million in bitcoins to hackers after a Linux ransomware infected its 153 servers, encrypting 3,400 business websites and their data, hosted...

OSIsoft Patches Flaws in PI Server, Web API Products (Security Week)
2017-06-14 17:49

California-based operational intelligence firm OSIsoft has released updates for its PI Web API and PI Server products to address several vulnerabilities, including ones rated high severity....

Week in review: PowerPoint malware delivery, dark web fraud guides, security through APIs (Help Net Security)
2017-06-12 01:00

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: UK ICO offers grants for practical privacy research The programme is open to academic institutions, civil society...

Dark web fraud guides reveal potential threats to orgs (Help Net Security)
2017-06-07 15:02

An in-depth look at content from more than 1,000 fraud guides available for sale on the dark web revealed that the majority of these guides are useless. Still, as many as 20 percent have the...

High-Tech Bridge and DenyAll partner to defend web applications and services (Help Net Security)
2017-06-06 14:31

High-Tech Bridge, recently named Gartner Cool Vendor 2017, and DenyAll, a Rohde & Schwarz Cybersecurity company, joined the efforts to combat cybercrime and defend corporate web applications and...

Week in review: Fireball malware infects 250 million computers, attacks within the Dark Web (Help Net Security)
2017-06-05 02:02

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: OneLogin suffers data breach, again OneLogin, a popular single sign-on service that allows users to access thousands...

Attacks within the Dark Web (Help Net Security)
2017-05-31 16:37

For six months, Trend Micro researchers operated a honeypot setup simulating several underground services on the Dark Web. The goal of their research was to see if those hidden services will be...