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Five ways to declaw the Meow bot

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While the motivation behind the “Meow” bot attacks is unknown, the menace is still out there wiping out open source databases left unsecured on the internet, prompting Elastic to offer clear steps that organizations can take to safeguard their data. The bot came on the scene about two weeks ago when it was reported that…
Hackers for Charity
Application Security, Database security, Security News, Web Services Security, E-Commerce Security

Exposed dating service databases leak sensitive info on romance-seekers

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A series of database misconfigurations publicly exposed the personal information and private messages of more than 100 million dating website and mobile app account holders. Independent VPN review site WizCase has reported finding six separate dating sites or apps that each potentially compromised thousands of users due to improper data storage. According to WizCase researchers,…
Data Breach, Database security, Privacy & Compliance

OneClass unsecured S3 bucket exposes PII on more than one million students, instructors

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An unsecured database belonging remote learning platform OneClass has exposed information associated with more than a million students in North America who use the platform to access study guides and educational assistance. “By not securing its users’ data, OneClass has created a goldmine for criminal hackers, jeopardizing the privacy and security of over a million…
Database security, Security News, Vulnerabilities

Honeypot study: Unsecured database simulation attacked 18x per day on average

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Now there’s proof that every random minute counts when a database is left unsecured on the web. In fact, a recent Comparitech experiment led by researcher Bob Diachenko found that hackers attacked a simulation of an unsecured database an average of 18 times per day. In a June 10 blog post, Comparitech Privacy Advocate Paul…
Defending the database
Data Breach, Security News

22 million emails found in mystery open database

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An otherwise unremarkable find of an open Elasticsearch database containing millions of records became a Sherlock Holmes mystery as researchers cannot figure out the database’s origins. Security researcher Troy Hunt, of Have I Been Pwned, was informed in February about an open database he has named db8151dd containing 90GB of data containing 22.8 million emails.…
Defending the database
Database security, Privacy & Compliance, Security News

Exposure of 7.4B records at Le Figaro highlights ongoing problems with misconfigured databases

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The exposure of 7.4 billion personal information-laden records, including some login credentials, at France’s Le Figaro underscores how unsecured databases persist even in a world hyperaware of privacy and data security. The database, exposed by an unsecured Elasticsearch server and containing more than 8TB of data on reporters, employees and 42,000 of the daily newspaper’s…
Cybercrime, Data Breach, Security News

Details on 267M Facebook users sold for cheap on dark web

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A cybercriminal actor on the dark web has made available a dataset of Facebook accounts belonging to 267 million users, recently selling the collective lot to researchers for 500 Euros. User data includes one’s email address, first and last names, phone number, Facebook ID, last connection, status and age, according to a blog post report…
Database security, Privacy & Compliance, Security News

Five billion records exposed in open ‘data breach database’

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More than five billion records were exposed after an Elasticsearch “data breach database” managed by a U.K.-based security firm and housing a trove of security incidents from the last seven years was left unprotected. “Data was very well structured,” wrote security researcher Bob Diachenko, who discovered the Elasticsearch instance, of the information, which included hashtypes,…
Data Breach, Security News

Blisk browser left open, 2.9 million records exposed

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The web-development browser Blisk suffered a data breach leaking more than 2.9 million records through an open Elasticsearch database that was left open and that bypassed the security put in place by its users. The browser has been compromised in a way that it now leaks the data it was designed to gather from web…
Data Breach, Security News

MGM admits to 2019 data breach affecting 10.6 million customers

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MGM Resorts has confirmed there was unauthorized access to one of the company’s cloud servers in 2019 that contained information on a reported 10.6 million guests, possibly including several high-profile guests. MGM did not confirm the number of people involved, but ZD Net working with the new security firm Under the Breach reportedly found data…
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