What Is Data Exposure and How to Prevent It
What Is Data Exposure and How to Prevent It Just a few days into 2019, one of the largest data exposure so far this year has come to light: the data leak of millions of data from an unprotected database of a California-based Voice-over-IP (VoIP) service provider VOIPo. Cloudflare security researcher Justin Painerevealed that VOIPo's database had been accidentally left publicly accessible, unintentionally leaking huge volume of data, including 6.7 million VOIP call logs, 6 million SMS/MMS message logs, and other documents containing internal hostnames, usernames, passwords and API keys. Paine said he discovered the exposed VOIPo's database using Shodan, a search engine, which unlike Google and other search engines that index only the web, indexes pretty much everything else that's plugged into the internet, including webcams and smart TVs. Using…