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Millions of Health Records At Risk Due to Vulnerable OpenEMR Configurations

| | application installer, default installation, health records, insecure configuration, OpenEMR, public access, setup script, vulnerability
Researchers from security firm Risk Based Security have found that many installations of OpenEMR, a popular open-source electronic health records management application, contain the original setup script. This gaffe exposes the system ...
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Insecure Storage Buckets Expose 1.8 Billion Online Posts Scraped for U.S. Military

| | Amazon S3, CENTCOM, Data leak, insecure configuration, intelligence gathering, military, misconfiguration, PACOM, permission control, public access, storage bucket, VendorX
A Pentagon contractor left three storage buckets publicly accessible on Amazon’s S3 service, exposing more than 1.8 billion online posts collected since 2009. The messages, posted by people from around the world, ...