Misconfigured ElasticSearch Cluster Exposed Over 90 Million Records

A security researcher found a misconfigured ElasticSearch cluster that exposed over 90 million personal and businesses data records. On 1 July, GDI Foundation member and an independent security researcher Sanyam Jain found that the unprotected ElasticS… Continue reading Misconfigured ElasticSearch Cluster Exposed Over 90 Million Records

Data Security in the Cloud: How to Lock Down the Next-Gen Perimeter

Enjoy the video replay of the recent Threatpost cloud security webinar, featuring a panel of experts offering best practices and ideas for managing data in a cloudified world. Continue reading Data Security in the Cloud: How to Lock Down the Next-Gen Perimeter

Unsecured Gearbest server exposes millions of shoppers and their orders

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

Hundreds of Vulnerable Docker Hosts Exploited by Cryptocurrency Miners

Docker is a technology that allows you to perform operating system level virtualization. An incredible number of companies and production hosts are running Docker to develop, deploy and run applications inside containers. You can interact with Docker v… Continue reading Hundreds of Vulnerable Docker Hosts Exploited by Cryptocurrency Miners

New security feature to prevent Amazon S3 bucket misconfiguration and data leaks

Hardly a week goes by that we don’t hear about an organization leaving sensitive data exposed on the Internet because they failed to properly configure their Amazon S3 buckets. Amazon Web Services, to their credit, are trying to prevent this from… Continue reading New security feature to prevent Amazon S3 bucket misconfiguration and data leaks

Solving the cloud infrastructure misconfiguration problem

Security incidents involving cloud infrastructure have become a regular occurrence since many organizations began shifting their assets to the cloud. Many of these incidents happen because of misconfiguration. “Cloud misconfiguration is a pervasi… Continue reading Solving the cloud infrastructure misconfiguration problem

FitMetrix Exposes Millions of Customer Details, Accessed by Criminals

Gym customer data, including contact information, birth dates and height/weight data, opens the door to convincing follow-on social-engineering attacks. Continue reading FitMetrix Exposes Millions of Customer Details, Accessed by Criminals