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2017-09-14 20:52
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? Elasticsearch is the most popular choice for enterprise search engines. Based on the open source information retrieval software library Lucene, it is itself open source, and it provides a full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and JSON documents. A number of organizations, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), … More →
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