DB Ransom Attacks Spread to CouchDB and Hadoop | Linux Today

DB Ransom Attacks Spread to CouchDB and Hadoop

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Christine Hall
Jan 23, 2017

The erasure of data on improperly secured databases has broadened to include Apache-Hadoop’s distributed storage and the NoSQL CouchDB. Expect more to come.

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Christine Hall

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