The Lemon Fool

...Data breaches and exposures have become so common these days, it's difficult to keep track of them all, much less step back to mull a solution. But, perhaps out of necessity, researchers from the database giant MongoDB have spent the past two years developing a new database encryption scheme aimed squarely at reducing these damaging incidents. Their secret weapon? Radical simplicity...

Security Now
Published on 3 Jul 2019

IoT = Installation of Trojan
• Ransomware in Florida and elsewhere• The "Going Dark" anti-encryption debate
• A BlueKeep Proof of Concept demo produced by the guys at SophosLabs
•* Massive publicly-exposed databases *
• Chinese IoT manufacturer logs a million+ customer devices into a 2+ billion record publicly-exposed database
• The dilemma we have with the utter lack of oversight and control over our own IoT devices