Your most sensitive data is likely exposed online. These people try to find it

May 13, 2019 by Namorgy

Justin Paine sits in a pub in Oakland, California, searching the internet for your most sensitive data. It doesn’t take him long to find to find a promising lead. He opens Shodan, a searchable index of cloud servers and other internet-connected devices, on his laptop. Then, he types the keyword “Kibana,” which reveals more than 15,000 databases stored online.

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