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Re:I discovered thousands of open databases on AWS by bombcar on Monday January 31, 2022 @08:17AM (#30147556)
What’s fun is when those IPs remain in the rulesets even after they’re no longer used or needed - and the residential DHCP changes and now someone else has a direct line.

Or it points to an AWS IP that eventually gets handed back and recycled …

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Re:I discovered thousands of open databases on AWS by tehbeard on Monday January 31, 2022 @12:38PM (#30150985)
And that's where you both implement and act on security policies to mitigate and avoid this based on the threat model you're up against.
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