Ruby Agent Security Vulnerability(newrelic.com)

https://newrelic.com/docs/ruby/ruby-agent-security-notification?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRolva%2FNZKXonjHpfsX%2F6O0lXq%2Bg38431UFwdcjKPmjr1YECTMF0dvycMRAVFZl5nQJdDfKQcIlD

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Legion14 anni fa

> if SSL is enabled for the agent, all data would be encrypted and could not be viewed by an attacker.

Allow me to paraphrase Ghostbusters 2:

"Ray, if an external service you're connecting your app to asks if you want to encrypt the transfer, you say YES!"

normalocity14 anni fa

DB username and password. Fuck - was pretty much waiting for something like this to happen. Just got one of these emails a few minutes ago myself. Luckily I was only using this for a toy app.