Ata Hakcil, cyber security specialist at WizCase, discovered that Microsoft employees mistakenly left one of the Bing backend servers open – it was available to anyone. The researcher writes that the server stored over 6.5 TB of logs containing 13,000,000,000 entries received from a search engine. The specialist tested his theory on this matter very… Continue reading Microsoft left open one of the internal servers of the search engine Bing
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The researcher found that every 142nd password is “123456”
Ata Hakçıl, a Turkish student and independent researcher, has done a great job examining over a billion different usernames and passwords. The researcher found that every 142nd password is “123456”. He collected such a huge dump for analysis from open sources: all this data was once “leaked” to the network after various information security incidents.… Continue reading The researcher found that every 142nd password is “123456”