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A survey of over 1000 office workers has revealed that over 59% of office workers hit by ransomware have paid the ransom themselves, out of their own pocket. Read Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

Hetzner, a key data base operated by a large South African data center operator has been hacked, leaving the company to advise clients to change their passwords immediatley. Read Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Tech Central

Ex-Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer will testify, alongside the current and past Equifax CEO's, in front of Senators on Nov. 8th, on two massive data breaches. Read Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Fortune

A 22 year old studying at the University of Iowa has been indicted on two hacking charges, after allegedly hacking into school systems to change classmates' grades, steal tutors passwords, and download exam papers ahead of time. He faces up to 10 years if found guilty. Read Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

The hotel giant Hilton will pay $700,000 in light of the credit data breach that exposed 363,000 credit cards. The money will also be spent to increase security measures. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Reuters

WordPress has released a patch to fix a serious SQL flaw which allowed attackers to take control of vulnerable websites. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Security Week

A new ransomware attack called ONI has been discovered with Japanese companies suffering from month-long attacks. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

News has surfaced that security researchers have discovered 23 vulnerabilities in Circle with Disney monitoring software which could be used to hijack full families of devices. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ZDNet

The personal data of 800 people has been exposed after the Denver Art Museum was hit by a data breach. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Denver Channel

A series of bugs have been uncovered within Google's internal bug tracking platform which allows attackers access to Google's entire database of known and unknown vulnerabilities. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: IB Times