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[eternaloptimist]

https://twitter.com/nmerrigan/status/819921785676242945
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/09/mongodb/?mt=1484412280563

 

[rward]

To help out with the extremly descriptive heading and OP:

Link1 (tweet): Please secure your #Elastic instances if not already .. see https://www.elastic.co/blog/protecting-against-attacks-that-hold-your-data-for-ransom … and http://code972.com/blog/2017/01/107-dont-be-ransacked-securing-your-elasticsearch-cluster-properly …

Link 2 (article) Headline: MongoDB ransom attacks soar, body count hits 27,000 in hours


OP - it's really not that hard to provide SOME context...

 

[eternaloptimist]

To help out with the extremly descriptive heading and OP:

Link1 (tweet): Please secure your #Elastic instances if not already .. see https://www.elastic.co/blog/protecting-against-attacks-that-hold-your-data-for-ransom … and http://code972.com/blog/2017/01/107-dont-be-ransacked-securing-your-elasticsearch-cluster-properly …

Link 2 (article) Headline: MongoDB ransom attacks soar, body count hits 27,000 in hours


OP - it's really not that hard to provide SOME context...

I really should have done that ... thanks rward

 

[rawoke]

Ja these days tools like https://nerdydata.com/search and https://builtwith.com/ makes it very easy to exploit an errr exploit/bad-config

 

[eternaloptimist]

Ja these days tools like https://nerdydata.com/search and https://builtwith.com/ makes it very easy to exploit an errr exploit/bad-config

Never heard of nerdy data. Really useful site, just been poking around and seeing how sites use certain libraries. I'm inspired now, thanks for the share.