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Professional Ransomware Group Gets Involved,Infections Reach 28K MongoDB Servers

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Re: Professional Ransomware Group Gets Involved,Infections Reach 28K MongoDB Servers

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I'm not clear on why people would be exposing MongoDB on a public address?

This habit of database-like software (does Redis still not offer authentication?) treating authentication/authorization as a second-class citizen is odd.

I guess it has proven to be webscale though [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

Re: Professional Ransomware Group Gets Involved,Infections Reach 28K MongoDB Servers

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I'm not clear on why people would be exposing MongoDB on a public address? This habit of database-like software (does Redis still not offer authentication?) treating authentication/authorization as a second-class citizen is odd. I guess it has proven to be webscale though [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

Redis has offered simple authentication for some time: https://redis.io/commands/auth

Redis generally isn't put forth a first-class member of a popular stack and featured in getting started tutorials in the same way that MongoDB has been.

Re: Professional Ransomware Group Gets Involved,Infections Reach 28K MongoDB Servers

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I'm not clear on why people would be exposing MongoDB on a public address? This habit of database-like software (does Redis still not offer authentication?) treating authentication/authorization as a second-class citizen is odd. I guess it has proven to be webscale though [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

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