Elasticsearch
With database attacks on the rise, how can companies protect themselves?
Misconfigured or unsecured databases exposed on the open web are a fact of life. We hear about some of them because security researchers tell us how they discovered them, …
Elasticsearch security: Understand your options and apply best practices
The ever-escalating popularity of Elasticsearch – the distributed open source search and log analytics engine that has become a staple in enterprise application developers’ …
UltraWarm now available for Amazon Elasticsearch Service
Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced the general availability of UltraWarm for Amazon Elasticsearch Service, a new, highly performant, fully managed, …
Siren 10.4: Finding the shortest data paths across connected records inside Elasticsearch clusters
Siren, the leading Elasticsearch-based investigative intelligence platform, announced the release of Siren 10.4. The latest version of Siren introduces a major breakthrough in …
Elastic Stack 7.6 delivers automated threat analysis and response
Elastic Stack 7.6 streamlines automated threat detection with the launch of a new SIEM detection engine and a curated set of detection rules aligned to the MITRE ATT&CK …
Core Elastic Stack security features now available to all users
Elastic, the company developing enterprise search engine Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, has decided to make core Elastic Stack security features accessible to all users …
Cryptojacking of businesses’ cloud resources still going strong
In the past year or so, many cybercriminals have turned to cryptojacking as an easier and more low-key approach for “earning” money. While the value of …
Unsecured Gearbest server exposes millions of shoppers and their orders
Chinese e-commerce giant Gearbest has exposed information and orders of millions of its customers through an unsecured Elasticsearch server, security researcher Noam Rotem and …
30% of healthcare databases are exposed online
Despite the fact that electronic health records (EHR) contain extremely sensitive information about individuals, it is shockingly easy for malicious actors to get their hands …
Unsecured Elasticsearch servers turned into PoS malware C&Cs
Security researchers have discovered over 4,000 Elasticsearch servers compromised to distribute and control PoS malware. 99 percent of them are hosted by Amazon. What is …
Elasticsearch servers actively targeted by botmasters
Elasticsearch is one of the most popular choices when it comes to enterprise search engines.Unfortunately, a couple of remote code execution flaws (CVE-2015-5377, …