Pierluigi Paganini
December 19, 2015
The popular expert and Shodan creator John Matherly found over 650 terabytes of MongoDB data exposed on the Internet by vulnerable databases. Last week my old hosting provider GoDaddy created me a lot of problems so I had no opportunity to write about this interesting story, now I passed to a better provider and I […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 21, 2015
MongoDB administrators have exposed something like 595.2 terabytes of data by using bad poor configurations, or un-patched versions of the MongoDB. John Matherly, the creator of Shodan, the marvelous search engine for connected devices, revealed that many MongoDB administrators have exposed something like 595.2 terabytes of data by using bad poor configurations, or un-patched versions […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 13, 2015
Three German students have discovered that tens of thousands of MongoDB databases running as a service or website backend were exposed on the Internet. MongoDB is a cross-platform document-oriented database which uses JSON-like documents with dynamic schemas (BSON) improving the integration of data between different applications. MongoDB is very popular for scalability, performance and high availability, it represents […]
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