• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Dec-16-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Over 650 terabytes of data up for grabs due to publicly exposed MongoDB databases

There are at least 35,000 publicly accessible and insecure MongoDB databases on the Internet, and their number appears to be growing. Combined they expose 684.8 terabytes of data to potential theft.This is the result of a scan performed over the […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Dec-16-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Over 650 terabytes of data up for grabs due to publicly exposed MongoDB databases

There are at least 35,000 publicly accessible and insecure MongoDB databases on the Internet, and their number appears to be growing. Combined they expose 684.8 terabytes of data to potential theft.This is the result of a scan performed over the […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Dec-16-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Vulnerability in popular bootloader puts locked-down Linux computers at risk

Pressing the backspace key 28 times can bypass the Grub2 bootloader’s password protection and allow a hacker to install malware on a locked-down Linux system.
GRUB, which stands for the Grand Unified Bootloader, is used by most Linux distributions to initialize […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Dec-16-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Vulnerability in popular bootloader puts locked-down Linux computers at risk

Pressing the backspace key 28 times can bypass the Grub2 bootloader’s password protection and allow a hacker to install malware on a locked-down Linux system.
GRUB, which stands for the Grand Unified Bootloader, is used by most Linux distributions to initialize […]