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Re:Hacker deleted all of NewsBlur’s Mongo data and is now ho... by z3t4 on Thursday June 24, 2021 @02:16AM (#27614512)
My theory is that its MongoDB that is behind the ransomware, why else would they 1. Not have auth protection 2. Open up the firewall !?
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Re:Hacker deleted all of NewsBlur’s Mongo data and is now ho... by alpacaillama on Thursday June 24, 2021 @02:28AM (#27614551)
If you read what the author said and understood it, you would see that mongodb didn’t open up the firewall and it does have auth protection but the author chose not to enable it.
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