Collaborate Disseminate
A staggering 590,497 million resumes have leaked from poorly-secured Chinese companies in just the last three months.
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In today’s world, data plays a crucial role in the success of any organization, but if left unprotected, it could be a cybercriminal’s dream come true.
Poorly protected MongoDB, CouchDB, and Elasticsearch databases recently got a lot more attention fr… Continue reading Thousands of Unprotected Kibana Instances Exposing Elasticsearch Databases
Setting up Elasticsearch, the open-source system that many companies large and small use to power their distributed search and analytics engines, isn’t the hardest thing. What is very hard, though, is to provision the right amount of resources to run the service, especially when your users’ demand comes in spikes, without overpaying for unused capacity. […] Continue reading Vizion.ai launches its managed Elasticsearch service
By John Mason
2019 has barely started, and indications show that this year could very well be one of the worst for Internet users as far as privacy and data security is concerned. As HackRead has reported, below are some of the biggest privacy breaches… Continue reading Privacy in 2019: 6 Basic Steps to Keep Yourself Protected
In the past year or so, many cybercriminals have turned to cryptojacking as an easier and more low-key approach for “earning” money. While the value of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Monero has been declining for a while now and Coinhive… Continue reading Cryptojacking of businesses’ cloud resources still going strong
Chinese e-commerce giant Gearbest has exposed information and orders of millions of its customers through an unsecured Elasticsearch server, security researcher Noam Rotem and his team have found. What kind of data was exposed? According to Rotem, the … Continue reading Unsecured Gearbest server exposes millions of shoppers and their orders
Sharing your life with a cat is a wonderful and fulfilling experience. Sharing your life with an awake, alert, and bored cat in the early hours when you are trying to sleep, is not. [Simon Aubury] has just this problem, as his cat [Snowy] is woken each morning by a …read more
Continue reading The Cat, The Aircraft, And The Tiny Computer
A company with access to the Dow Jones Watchlist of risky people and businesses left it on a public AWS server without a password. Continue reading Dow Jones Watchlist of risky businesses exposed on public server
Far too many organizations found their names in headlines during the first month of 2019. Many came after a security researcher discovered a trove of Elasticsearch database misconfigurations that left data exposed without passwords. In one of the more… Continue reading Preventing Security Breaches Within Company Search Applications
DIY giant B&Q reportedly suffered an Elasticsearch database breach this week that gave up information on around 70,000 shoplifters. Continue reading Thieves’ names and descriptions made public on B&Q database