Personal data stores found leaking online(bbc.co.uk)

bbc.co.uk

Personal data stores found leaking online

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28707117

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> The net scans that Digital Shadows carried out regularly revealed links to domestic NAS boxes on the Google index, he said. "That means it will have to have been shared somewhere else to make it crop up on a search engine." That "somewhere else" could well be a place where cyberthieves gathered or swapped data, he said.

If someone emails an Internet-accessible link for a resource on their home NAS, to/from a gmail address, would that be indexed by Google?

> Getting known faults on routers fixed could be frustrating

Does OpenWRT support automatic updates for security fixes, i.e. no functional changes?

chronid12 anni fa

Crawling private mail for public displayed results? I seriously hope that's not what happens.

OpenWRT does not support any type of automatic update, AFAIK.

walterbell12 anni fa

> Crawling private mail for public displayed results? I seriously hope that's not what happens

It's not clear, an old theory is that users could be pasting URLs into the browser search field, http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3824030.htm

Prior incident with Microsoft and Skype chat: http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Skype-with-care-M...

raintrees12 anni fa

From a quick search, it seems that the attacks are either through direct access from the Internet, or by getting into the local network first, usually via an infected email/links to exploit patches, possibly even social engineering, if someone falls for it.

Unless someone is aware of other avenues?