Web Hosting Company Pays $1 Million to Ransomware Hackers to Get Files Back

The Hacker News Daily Updates Best Practices for Office 365 Security Monitoring Activities to monitor, threats to look for, and monitoring tools to use Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Jun 20, 2017 A Decade Old Unix/Linux/BSD Root Privilege-Escalation Bug Discovered Security researchers have discovered more than a decade-old vulnerability in several Unix-based operating systems — including Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD and Solaris — which can be exploited by attackers to escalate their privileges to root, potentially leading to a full system takeover. ... Read More Web Hosting Company Pays $1 Million to Ransomware Hackers to Get Files Back 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 on them. According to a blog post published by NAYANA, the web hosting company, this unfortunate event ... Read More Database of Over 198 Million U.S. Voters Left Exposed On Unsecured Server Information on more than 198 Million United States citizens, that's over 60% of the US population, was exposed in what's believed to be the largest ever known exposure of voter-related to date. This blunder was caused by Deep Root Analytics (DRA), a data analytics firm employed by the US ... Read More Mexican Govt. Allegedly Used Spyware Against Journalists, Activists & A Child After the disclosure of sophisticated global espionage and disinformation campaign aimed to discredit enemies of the state, Citizen Lab researchers exposed the dirty game of the Mexican government and its politics. The report — "Government Spy: Systematic monitoring of journalists and human rights ... Read More European Parliament Proposes Ban On Encryption Backdoors Prime Minister Theresa May wants tech companies, like Facebook, Apple, and Google, to create controversial 'backdoors' for police, but even somewhere she knows that it's not that easy as it sounds. The Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee of the European Parliament has released a ... Read More Best Practices for Office 365 Security Monitoring Activities to monitor, threats to look for, and monitoring tools to use Download Now Sponsored This email was sent to balvistudio4.raaj@blogger.com. You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from The Hacker News. To manage your email newsletter preferences, please click here. Contact The Hacker News: info@thehackernews.com Unsubscribe The Hacker News | Pearls Omaxe, Netaji Subash Place, Pitampura, Delhi 110034 India