The Era Of Data-Jacking Is Here. Are You Ready?

As data in the cloud becomes more valuable, the cost of weak security will soon be higher than many organizations can bear. Here’s why. The past few months have seen a deluge of attacks on database deployments in production environments. Victor Gevers, an ethical hacker and founder of GDI Foundation, broke news about attacks on…

Exposed MongoDB installs being erased, held for ransom

Security researcher Victor Gevers, co-founder of the GDI Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to making the internet safer, is urging administrators to check their MongoDB installations, after finding nearly two hundred of them wiped and being held for ransom. Currently, as of Monday morning, Gevers says he’s discovered 196 instances of a MongoDB installation exposed to…