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MongoBleed is web scale (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by qaz@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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There are over 213k+ potentially vulnerable internet-exposed MongoDB instances, ensuring that this exploit is web scale.

MongoDB is webscale

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[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 79 points 2 months ago (1 children)

MongoDB the company who drives its employees to suicide?

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What are you referring to?

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 107 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Woman took her own life after $35B tech company cancelled health benefits during mental health leave, parents claim

The headline misses that they fired her after they demanded she return to the office and she begged for a bit more unpaid mental health leave.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 51 points 2 months ago

That's fucked up

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the not-linked url. MSN is gross, too but a lot less so

[–] kubica@fedia.io 73 points 2 months ago

Try to stay positive, think of all the software still using MongoDB that never got updated after 2016.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 54 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This is small potatoes for a company that murders it’s employees in cold blood.

[–] MashedTech@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

[–] flowers_galore2@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 2 months ago

Jesus fuckin christ that’s awful

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)

One day I'll learn what webscale means, but it is not this day.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Turns out we were better off piping data to /dev/null

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

For GDPR compliance, absolutely

[–] probable_possum@leminal.space 8 points 2 months ago

/dev/null ACE incoming soon. ;)

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 29 points 2 months ago (3 children)

MongoDB is normally not public facing right?

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago

It shouldn't be

[–] enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 months ago

How else would you be webscale?

[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 months ago

The default configuration in 2017 was public write access, but those databases where taken over long ago.

[–] goatinspace@feddit.org 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago

I feel pain just by looking at it, definitely an instance of move fast break ~~things~~ bones