Day: January 4, 2017

TCL targets Apple, Samsung with new BlackBerry handset

TCL Communication has big plans for BlackBerry, even though it’s a brand that’s been written off by many. The China-based electronics company recently acquired rights to design, manufacture and sell smartphones under the BlackBerry name with BlackBerry’s security and service software installed. The deal puts TCL in the driver’s seat on hardware and the first

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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. On Monday morning, Gevers said he’d discovered 196 instances of a MongoDB installation exposed to the public

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FTC sets $25,000 prize for automatic IoT patching

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is scheduled to announce Wednesday a “prize competition” for a tool that can used against security vulnerabilities in internet of things systems. The prize pot is up to $25,000, with $3,000 available for each honorable mention. The winners will be announced in July. The announcement is scheduled to be published

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