Wednesday, July 22, 2015

600TB of data exposed due to misconfigured MongoDB instances

From Help Net Security:

600TB of data exposed due to misconfigured MongoDB instances

Shodan, the search engine that lets users find devices connected to the Internet, can be used for a number of different things. As its creator, John Matherly, pointed out, it's a means to measure things that couldn't be measured before, and gain new and very muh needed insights.

The latest of these is that there are nearly 30,000 instances of MongoDB on the Internet that don't have any authorization enabled, i.e. are easily accessible to unauthorized users.

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