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Shodan
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Scoop: Uganda Security Exchange Caught Leaking 32GB of Sensitive Data
Apart from personal and financial records, the data also included plain-text login credentials including usernames and passwords of…
June 13, 2022
100s of Russian Building Controllers Can be Remotely Hacked
Researcher Jose Bertin has identified critical security vulnerabilities in a building controller made by Russian firm Tekon Avtomatika…
March 25, 2022
Netlas.io: A new atlas of the Internet
A while ago, I decided to test a new analog of Shodan — the Netlas.io platform only to…
February 22, 2022
BYKEA data breach: Pakistani ride-hailing app exposed 400m records
According to researchers, BYKEA's 200 GB worth of database was exposed on an Elasticsearch server.
January 28, 2021
Chinese firm leaked 200m Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn users’ data
The 400GB worth of data was exposed due to a misconfigured Elasticsearch database.
January 12, 2021
Best OSINT Tools for 2020
OSINT means Open source intelligence refers to information that can be collected from the public for free. Here are the 10 best OSINT tools to do so.
October 2, 2020
PewDiePie fan hacker compromise 100,000 printers
A couple of weeks ago, a hacker going by the online handle of TheHackerGiraffe hacked over 50,000 printers for the…
December 17, 2018
Private data of more than 82 million US citizens left exposed
Misconfigured ElasticSearch Servers Exposed Private Data of over 82 Million Users. A warning has been issued by Bob…
December 3, 2018
Cloud data management firm exposes database with over 440M emails & IP addresses
Data management software companies are mandatorily believed to be having perfectly capable of managing their own data. However,…
September 14, 2018
Hackers leave ransom note after wiping out MongoDB in 13 seconds
For the last couple of years, hackers have been exploiting unprotected MongoDB based servers to steal data and hold…
March 22, 2018