One the biggest security news stories of 2017 was of a ransomware variant targeting improperly secured MongoDB instances. Here it is in a nutshell: some users of MongoDB accidentally left their databases exposed to the internet without any authentication. Predictably, some online ne’er-do-wells decided to take advantage of this, copying and deleting databases, before leaving a ransom note demanding a small fortune in Bitcoin for safe return of the data. Thankfully, that won’t be an issue any more, as of MongoDB 3.6. Speaking to TNW at the company’s MongoDB Europe conference, company founder and CTO Eliot Horowitz explained that MongoDB…
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