It has been reported that thousands of baby videos and images are being left unsecured and exposed to the internet by Peekaboo Moments, a mobile app. This is due to the app’s developer, Bithouse Inc., leaving an Elasticsearch
Experts Comments
January 15, 2020
Unfortunately, this is yet another Elastic Database that is open to the public, which has nothing to do with the product itself, but purely with how the vendor has decided to set up their infrastructure and deploy their software. With the countless possibilities of ‘quickly deploying a system in the cloud’, security is -still- often overlooked by organisations. As datasets grow to these sizes and contain this sensitive information, data is becoming increasingly valuable to our business and.....Read More
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@Winston Bond, EMEA Technical Director , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"This breach is a great example of extracting a web API from a mobile app and then using it to extract data...."
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@Winston Bond, EMEA Technical Director , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"This breach is a great example of extracting a web API from a mobile app and then using it to extract data...."
#infosec #cybersecurity #isdots
https://informationsecuritybuzz.com/expert-comments/comment-peekaboo-moments-suffers-breach-leaving-thousands-of-baby-images-and-videos-exposed