Sensitive Illinois Voter Data Exposed by Contractor’s Unsecured Databases

Social Security numbers, death certificates, voter applications, and other personal data were accessible on the open internet, highlighting the ongoing challenges in election security...

US and China Exposed Most Databases Among 308,000 Discovered in 2021

By Waqas In total, 308,000 unsecured databases were found exposing sensitive assets worldwide of which around 90,000 databases have already… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: US and China Exposed Most Databases Among 308,000 Discovered in 2021...

Meow Attack: A Reminder for Organizations to Identify and Secure Their Databases

Thousands of unsecured internet-facing databases have fallen prey to the “Meow” attack and have been permanently destroyed. Meow attacks replace the original index with a newly created one with the suffix “-meow”. With no ransomware demands or any other explanatory note, the attackers seem to hav...

Thousands of Unprotected Kibana Instances Exposing Elasticsearch Databases

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 from cybersecurity firms and media lately. More...

A week in security (September 4 – September 10)

Last week, we looked into expired domain names being used for malvertising, delved into dubious Facebook apps, and checked out Chinese seminar scams. We also explained the whys and wherefores of false positives, explained what Google is doing with HTTPs, warned you away from a fake DHS email, and...