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• Hackers encrypt medical centre's patient data, ask for ransom

  10.12.2012

  Russian hackers have apparently managed to break into a server where an Australian medical centre keeps its patients' records, encrypt the data, and are now asking for 4,000 Australian dollars in order to decrypt it and make it available for use again, ABC News reports.

• Researcher releases a slew of MySQL and SSH exploits

  03.12.2012

  Security professional Nikolaos Rangos, who is better known by his online handle Kingcope, has flooded the Full Disclosure mailing list over the weekend with information and exploits for a number of bugs in MySQL and SSH servers.

• Personal data of 235,000 WCSU students exposed

  30.11.2012

  Western Connecticut State University has begun notifying students, their families, and individuals who had other associations with the university that their personal information may have been exposed to unauthorized access by a computer system vulnerability.

• 81% don't trust cloud security

  19.11.2012

  81 percent of IT professionals express security concerns when moving data to the cloud, according to a recent survey by GreenSQL.

• Application Security updates its database scanning tool

  31.10.2012

  Application Security announced the latest release of its database scanning tool, AppDetectivePro.

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