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Security lapse exposed New York airport’s critical servers for a year

Posted on February 26, 2017 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports:

A security lapse at a New York international airport left its server backups exposed on the open internet for almost a year, ZDNet has found.

The internet-connected storage drive contained several backup images of servers used by Stewart International Airport, but neither the backup drive nor the disk images were password protected, allowing anyone to access their contents.

Read more on ZDNet.


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