Microsoft left open one of the internal servers of the search engine Bing

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

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”