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Re:New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases by creato on Sunday July 26, 2020 @10:44PM (#23961838)
I wonder how many of the deleted databases are just people learning with databases of dummy data?
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Re:New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases by nix23 on Monday July 27, 2020 @05:20AM (#23963461)
Nice, now they learn never expose a DB directly to the net additionally...bonus points ;)
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Re:New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Monday July 27, 2020 @11:46AM (#23966208)
Except of course they probably already knew that, they just accepted to risk to their toy database as a trade-off for the convenience of being able to directly access it over the internet.
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Re:New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases by nix23 on Monday July 27, 2020 @07:25PM (#23970568)
Have fun to re-setup it again then...
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