An attack called Mongo Lock is targeting remotely accessible and unprotected MongoDB databases, wiping them, and then demanding a ransom in order to get the contents back. While this new campaign is ...

Over 12,000 unsecured MongoDB databases have been deleted over the past three weeks, with only a message left behind asking the owners of the databases to contact the cyber-extortionists to have the ...

Ransomware recently struck some unsecured MongoDB installations and held the data to ransom. Here, we will introduce MongoDB and examine some steps you can take to secure and protect its database.

Don’t be the next MongoDB data breach. Close these holes in your MongoDB deployment before it’s too late Security is a trending topic again, thanks to recent data leaks involving big corporations. For ...

There are at least 35,000 publicly accessible and insecure MongoDB databases on the Internet, and their number appears to be growing. Combined they expose 684.8 terabytes of data to potential theft.

Updates announced at the company’s annual MongoDB World conference this week include new analytics capabilities, a data lake for its Atlas database as a service, and the ability to query encrypted ...

The world's data is changing. Social networks, e-commerce sites, and the Internet of Things are now providing text strings, web logs, and other forms of unstructured information that is collected from ...

On top of business's growing frustration with proprietary software, the relational database model championed by the big vendors is looking increasingly dated, according to the CEO of leading ...