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Security researchers Dylan Katz and Victor Gevers confirmed other 26,000 MongoDB servers were hit in a new wave of ransom attacks. View full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Security Affairs

Another day, another data breach – This time Taringa, a Reddit-like social network website for Latin American users has suffered a massive data breach in which 28 million accounts of registered users have been stolen. View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Hack Read

No matter how good it is, enterprise cybersecurity is doomed to fail. Every enterprise should have a business continuity plan in place for when it does. View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Tech Republic

The Mirror team found fakes for sale on the so-called “dark web” – a shadowy corner of the internet which cannot be searched via mainstream browsers like Google. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Mirror

According to a statement from the Edmonton Police Service (EPS), its Cyber Crimes Investigation Unit started looking into the website after a user complained of fraudulent purchases appearing in his bank statements in May this year. Read Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

The TrickBot banking trojan is a new malware strain that appeared in the autumn of 2016 and most experts believe it was developed by some of the developers who worked on the now defunct Dyre banking trojan, some of whose operators were arrested in late 2015 in Russia. Read More  VIEW FULL STORY: Bleeping Computer

Android bootloader components from five major chipset vendors are affected by vulnerabilities that break the CoT (Chain of Trust) during the boot-up sequence, opening devices to attacks. Read More ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer  

Verizon today released its 2017 Payment Security Report (PSR), which reveals that just under half of global organisations fail to comply with the security standards laid out by the Payment Cards Industry to ensure customer payment data is protected. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Information Age

Sometimes cyberattacks are incredibly sophisticated. They succeed through careful planning and methodical execution. Other times hackers will launch wholesale attacks, setting as many traps as possible and waiting to see how many people walk into them. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Forbes

THE US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is recalling nearly half-a-million pacemakers from St Jude Medical (now Abbotts) after finding at the beginning of this year that the devices could be hacked. The vulnerable firmware covers any device sold before last Monday (28th). This is the first time a fix has been available. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Inquirer