Misconfiguration leaves thousands of servers vulnerable to attack, researchers find
Simple mistakes and configuration errors is still a major cybersecurity issue, according to security firm Censys.
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Amazon Web Services finds no ‘significant issues’ at other companies allegedly breached by Paige Thompson
AWS, which serves millions of cloud customers, said it will be more proactive in helping clients detect misconfiguations.
‘Gold mine’ of customer loan, tax and other records exposed on open server
24 million records, one server, no password.
Misconfigured server exposed half of all Brazilian taxpayer ID numbers, report says
Researchers haven't been able to identify the database owners and warn that any determined cyber-actor wouldn't miss such a large prize.
Data about 57 million people exposed by Elasticsearch servers
Cybersecurity organization Hacken said it found the misconfigured servers as part of a regular security audit. The data appears to come from millions of U.S. residents.
Researcher finds trove of political fundraising, old voter data on open internet
Hacken says the server had authentication disabled and was openly visible on an IoT search engine.
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