By Nancy Rand, Posted in Security
February 10, Softpedia – (International) About 40,000 MongoDB databases found open online. Three Saarland University cyber-security students reported security vulnerabilities in MongoDB’s database configuration, including servers with no access control mechanisms that could potentially allow access outside the backend and expose the information of millions of customers to unauthorized parties. An initial scan found nearly 40,000 databases that were open, prompting the researchers to submit their findings to... read more.