How hundreds of websites are exposing their sensitive data and risking their user's privacy
The Purpose of this article is to show how some websites are exposing their sensitive data and risking their user's privacy. Recently some reports came out how some websites are exposing their kibana Instances due to misconfigure ElasticSearch Database so I decided to dig deeper to see how bad it can go . In this post I will show you how easily a blackhat guy could have compromised a site, its databse, it's user's personal information. To do this one can go to shodan.io and enter kibana port:5601 country:"US" org:"Amazon.com" in the search query Above 5601 is the port number that you access kibana through the US is the country code for the country you want to access and Amazon.com is the services you want to discover like Azure, Google cloud, Digital Ocean, etc. On searching above query i got 2.6k results I checked on a random server Below we can see a user (name hidden) logs. One can also see other details like name, address. ...