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Ransomware attack hit Pennsylvania Democratic Senators

The Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Caucus was hit with a ransomware attack, locking 16 Democratic senators and their staff out of their computer network.The attack was discovered on Friday morning; at the time of publishing on Sunday, the site was still down and displayed an “error establishing a database connection” message. The same error displays when trying to view each Democratic senator’s website.“Officials from the caucus have been in contact with law enforcement to investigate the incident and are working with Microsoft to restore the IT system,” according to a written statement text-messaged to reporters and obtained by The Hill. It was sent via text since the caucus could not use its email. “There is currently no indication that the caucus system was targeted or that any data has been compromised.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Ransomware attack hit Pennsylvania Democratic senators

The Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Caucus was hit with a ransomware attack, locking 16 Democratic senators and their staff out of their computer network.The attack was discovered on Friday morning; at the time of publishing, the Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Caucus website was still down and displayed an “error establishing a database connection” message. The same error displays when trying to view each Democratic senator’s website.“Officials from the caucus have been in contact with law enforcement to investigate the incident and are working with Microsoft to restore the IT system,” according to a written statement text-messaged to reporters and obtained by The Hill. It was sent via text, since the caucus could not use its email. “There is currently no indication that the caucus system was targeted or that any data has been compromised.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Ransomware attack hit Pennsylvania Democratic senators

The Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Caucus was hit with a ransomware attack, locking 16 Democratic senators and their staff out of their computer network.The attack was discovered on Friday morning; at the time of publishing, the Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Caucus website was still down and displayed an “error establishing a database connection” message. The same error displays when trying to view each Democratic senator’s website.“Officials from the caucus have been in contact with law enforcement to investigate the incident and are working with Microsoft to restore the IT system,” according to a written statement text-messaged to reporters and obtained by The Hill. It was sent via text, since the caucus could not use its email. “There is currently no indication that the caucus system was targeted or that any data has been compromised.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Google hopes cord-cutters will sign up for YouTube TV: 44 channels for $35

Google has jumped into the cord-cutter game with YouTube TV, offering live TV without signing a contract.For $35 per month, you can watch 44 different channels via YouTube TV. Some of those channels are ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, CW, ESPN, Disney, Disney Jr., National Geographic, USA, FX, FXX, Syfy, Bravo, Oxygen, Sprout, E! and FreeForm. Google’s announcement included the full run-down, as well as intentions to partner with local TV stations to get local news and sports.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

821,000 user records exposed due to misconfigured MongoDB for smart stuffed toys

No one wants to learn that they have been hacked; if a company is not doing so well, then it might really be scared after it is breached. But burying your head in sand and hoping it will all go away if you ignore it for long enough is simply not going to make the breach disappear. In the case of CloudPets, owned by SpiralToys, it wasn’t the cute and huggable smart stuffed toys hackers were hugging, but the data. Here it is:- Toy captured kids voices- Data exposed via MongoDB- 2.2m recordings- DB ransom'd- And much more...https://t.co/HvePnZleXRTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

821,000 user records exposed due to misconfigured MongoDB for smart stuffed toys

No one wants to learn that they have been hacked; if a company is not doing so well, then it might really be scared after it is breached. But burying your head in sand and hoping it will all go away if you ignore it for long enough is simply not going to make the breach disappear. In the case of CloudPets, owned by SpiralToys, it wasn’t the cute and huggable smart stuffed toys hackers were hugging, but the data. Here it is:- Toy captured kids voices- Data exposed via MongoDB- 2.2m recordings- DB ransom'd- And much more...https://t.co/HvePnZleXRTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Russian cybersecurity expert charged with treason for sharing ‘secrets’ with US firms

Remember when Ruslan Stoyanov, a top cybercrime investigator for Kaspersky Lab, was arrested and charged with treason? It is now being reported that the treason charges were for allegedly passing state secrets to Verisign and other US companies.An unnamed source told Reuters that the accusations of treason were first made in 2010 by Russian businessman and founder of the online payment firm ChronoPay, Pavel Vrublevsky. The December 2016 arrests of Stoyanov and two FSB officers, Sergei Mikhailov and Dmitry Dokuchayev, were in response to those 2010 claims that the men had passed secrets on to American companies.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Russian cybersecurity expert charged with treason for sharing ‘secrets’ with US firms

Remember when Ruslan Stoyanov, a top cybercrime investigator for Kaspersky Lab, was arrested and charged with treason? It is now being reported that the treason charges were for allegedly passing state secrets to Verisign and other US companies.An unnamed source told Reuters that the accusations of treason were first made in 2010 by Russian businessman and founder of the online payment firm ChronoPay, Pavel Vrublevsky. The December 2016 arrests of Stoyanov and two FSB officers, Sergei Mikhailov and Dmitry Dokuchayev, were in response to those 2010 claims that the men had passed secrets on to American companies.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Ransomware attacks targeted hundreds of MySQL databases

Hundreds of MySQL databases were hit in ransomware attacks, which were described as “an evolution of the MongoDB ransomware attacks;” in January, there were tens of thousands of MongoDB installs erased and replaced with ransom demands. In the new attacks, targeted MySQL databases are erased and replaced with a ransom demand for 0.2 bitcoin, which is currently equal to about $234.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Ransomware attacks targeted hundreds of MySQL databases

Hundreds of MySQL databases were hit in ransomware attacks, which were described as “an evolution of the MongoDB ransomware attacks;” in January, there were tens of thousands of MongoDB installs erased and replaced with ransom demands. In the new attacks, targeted MySQL databases are erased and replaced with a ransom demand for 0.2 bitcoin, which is currently equal to about $234.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Microsoft released Adobe Flash Player fix, but didn’t patch 2 zero-days

Microsoft released MS17-005 to patch critical flaws in Adobe Flash Player, but that’s it. Microsoft didn’t release the fix for the two zero days disclosed this month.After the company said patches would be delayed in February, it clarified that security updates would instead be released on Patch Tuesday in March. Yet InfoWorld’s Woody Leonhard reported that Microsoft emailed its largest customers on Monday with a heads-up about the Flash patches for Internet Explorer and Edge.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Microsoft releases Adobe Flash Player fix, but doesn’t patch 2 zero-day exploits

Microsoft released MS17-005 to patch critical flaws in Adobe Flash Player, but that’s it. Microsoft didn’t release the fix for the two zero-day exploits disclosed this month.After the company said patches would be delayed in February, it clarified that security updates would instead be released on Patch Tuesday in March. Yet InfoWorld’s Woody Leonhard reported that Microsoft emailed its largest customers on Monday with a heads-up about the Flash patches for Internet Explorer and Edge.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Microsoft releases Adobe Flash Player fix, but doesn’t patch 2 zero-day exploits

Microsoft released MS17-005 to patch critical flaws in Adobe Flash Player, but that’s it. Microsoft didn’t release the fix for the two zero-day exploits disclosed this month.After the company said patches would be delayed in February, it clarified that security updates would instead be released on Patch Tuesday in March. Yet InfoWorld’s Woody Leonhard reported that Microsoft emailed its largest customers on Monday with a heads-up about the Flash patches for Internet Explorer and Edge.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

EFF: Congress is considering making it illegal to protect consumer privacy online

“When you go online you reveal a tremendous amount of private information about yourself,” wrote the EFF. “What you browse, what you purchase, who you communicate with—all reveal something personal about you.” These are examples of what your ISP knows about you.But it’s more than that for people with smart connected devices. Think about a smart refrigerator. As former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler asked, “Who would have ever imagined that what you have in your refrigerator would be information available to AT&T, Comcast, or whoever your network provider is?” Who would have thought they could sell that type of information?The FCC did something about that last year by putting privacy protections in place for when you use your broadband provider.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

EFF: Congress is considering making it illegal to protect consumer privacy online

“When you go online you reveal a tremendous amount of private information about yourself,” wrote the EFF. “What you browse, what you purchase, who you communicate with—all reveal something personal about you.” These are examples of what your ISP knows about you.But it’s more than that for people with smart connected devices. Think about a smart refrigerator. As former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler asked, “Who would have ever imagined that what you have in your refrigerator would be information available to AT&T, Comcast, or whoever your network provider is?” Who would have thought they could sell that type of information?The FCC did something about that last year by putting privacy protections in place for when you use your broadband provider.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

EFF: Congress considers making it illegal to protect consumer privacy online

“When you go online you reveal a tremendous amount of private information about yourself,” wrote the Electronics Frontier Foundation (EFF). “What you browse, what you purchase, who you communicate with—all reveal something personal about you.” These are examples of what your ISP knows about you.But it’s more than that for people with smart connected devices. Think about a smart refrigerator. As former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler asked, “Who would have ever imagined that what you have in your refrigerator would be information available to AT&T, Comcast, or whoever your network provider is?” Who would have thought they could sell that type of information?To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

EFF: Congress considers making it illegal to protect consumer privacy online

“When you go online you reveal a tremendous amount of private information about yourself,” wrote the Electronics Frontier Foundation (EFF). “What you browse, what you purchase, who you communicate with—all reveal something personal about you.” These are examples of what your ISP knows about you.But it’s more than that for people with smart connected devices. Think about a smart refrigerator. As former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler asked, “Who would have ever imagined that what you have in your refrigerator would be information available to AT&T, Comcast, or whoever your network provider is?” Who would have thought they could sell that type of information?To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Iraqi hacker took credit for hijacking subdomain and defacing Trump site

A hacker, purportedly from Iraq, defaced a site previously used by President Donald Trump for campaign fundraising. The “hack” occurred Sunday on the server, secure2.donaldjtrump.com. It was short-lived.A screenshot of the defacement was posted on the subreddit Hacking. The page displayed an anonymous man in a fedora above the message: Hacked By Pro_Mast3r ~Attacker GovNothing Is ImpossiblePeace From Iraq g33xter Ars Technica reported the server was “behind Cloudflare’s content management and security platform, and does not appear to be directly linked from the Trump Pence campaign's home page. But it does appear to be an actual Trump campaign server.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Iraqi hacker took credit for hijacking subdomain and defacing Trump site

A hacker, purportedly from Iraq, defaced a site previously used by President Donald Trump for campaign fundraising. The “hack” occurred Sunday on the server, secure2.donaldjtrump.com. It was short-lived.A screenshot of the defacement was posted on the subreddit Hacking. The page displayed an anonymous man in a fedora above the message: Hacked By Pro_Mast3r ~Attacker GovNothing Is ImpossiblePeace From Iraq g33xter Ars Technica reported the server was “behind Cloudflare’s content management and security platform, and does not appear to be directly linked from the Trump Pence campaign's home page. But it does appear to be an actual Trump campaign server.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Iraqi hacker takes credit for hijacking subdomain, defacing Trump site

A hacker, purportedly from Iraq, defaced a site previously used by President Donald Trump for campaign fundraising. The “hack” occurred Sunday on the server secure2.donaldjtrump.com. It was short-lived.A screenshot of the defacement was posted on the subreddit Hacking. The page displayed an anonymous man in a fedora above the message: Hacked By Pro_Mast3r ~Attacker GovNothing Is ImpossiblePeace From Iraq g33xter Ars Technica reported the server was “behind Cloudflare’s content management and security platform, and it does not appear to be directly linked from the Trump/Pence campaign's home page. But it does appear to be an actual Trump campaign server.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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