New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases

Re:New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases by gregschlom on Sunday July 26, 2020 @11:34AM (#23957796)

So why is the attack being called Meow?

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Re:New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases by phoe-krk on Sunday July 26, 2020 @11:36AM (#23957828)

Seems like all that's left of a database after the attack is some generated indices or other data structures with their names ending with "meow".

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Re:New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases by scurvy on Sunday July 26, 2020 @12:20PM (#23958123)

Clearly fans of "Super Troopers" / BrokenLizard.

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Re:New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases by to11mtm on Sunday July 26, 2020 @12:28PM (#23958183)

Meow why would you say that?

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Re:New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases by gravitas on Sunday July 26, 2020 @12:58PM (#23958393)

Probably because a bunch of stoners are putting a password on their database right meow.

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Re:New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases by jt94mf90d on Sunday July 26, 2020 @01:54PM (#23958804)

Meows right!

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Re:New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases by bdcravens on Sunday July 26, 2020 @01:41PM (#23958698)

Cats like to knock things off of tables.

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Re:New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases by detaro on Sunday July 26, 2020 @11:36AM (#23957825)

Because it deletes data and only leaves records saying "meow".

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Re:New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases by Nextgrid on Sunday July 26, 2020 @11:35AM (#23957815)

I believe they rewrite the records in the unsecured DBs with "meow".

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Re:New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases by phyzome on Sunday July 26, 2020 @02:05PM (#23958892)

Yeah, it was kind of amazing how the article never explained what exactly "meowing" entailed, and just left readers to figure it out from context.

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Re:New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases by neop1x on Sunday July 26, 2020 @09:07PM (#23961423)

Because cats are cute and likes to swipe things off a table.

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