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Half a Million Database Servers 'Have no Firewall'

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-thats-not-so-bad dept.

An anonymous reader writes "There are nearly half a million database servers exposed on the Internet, without firewall protection according to UK-based security researcher David Litchfield."

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  1. Re:Yawn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why is this alarmist slashvertisement for David Litchfield's consultancy front page material?

  2. MORE open DBs please. And... SQL == language by CarpetShark · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    While I agreed with most of your comments, this:

    Hell some versions of MS Office install SQL on your computer.


    Makes you sound like an amateur who's never used anything but Microsoft's database products. SQL is a language.

    On another note...

    There should be many MORE open databases online, just like there are many websites online. Then maybe this whole semantic "web" thing would've taken off years ago.
  3. Re:Printers too by cdrguru · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Absolutely. Cause as much havoc as you possibly can using this new toy "the Internet".

    Do you wonder why people think only children are "online"? Oh, children, fraudsters and mischief-makers.