Displaying items by tag: Elasticsearch

Open source database-as-a-service vendor Instaclustr has hired Apache Software Foundation board member Justin Mclean as its vice-president, Lead Training Services.

The company behind Elasticsearch has changed its licensing in order to prevent "cloud service providers from offering our products as a service without sharing their modifications and the source code of their service management layers".

Two hundred and fifty million records of conversations between Microsoft support agents and customers spanning the period 2005 to December 2019 lay exposed on the Web and was discovered last month.

A security researcher has discovered an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster containing 976 million records belonging to Honda North America, and accessible to anyone who has a Web browser.

AWS has announced a raft of new services.

A new cryptomining campaign that targets both Windows and Linux systems running the Elasticsearch search and analytics engine has been detailed by researchers from F5 Networks.

A security researcher has found a copy of the Dow Jones Watchlist database on a public Elasticsearch cluster which was open to anyone who knew where to look and could have been found using a public IoT search engine like BinaryEdge.

Instaclustr is a 100% open-source business, using Cassandra ("one of the most scalable databases in the world") for data storage, Spark for analytics, Elasticsearch for search, and Kafka for messaging, among other pieces of software.

Akamai's Prolexic security operation says Linux malware has been implicated in DDoS attacks.