Hipsters and data

A while back I spent some time playing with the “modern” database implementations, more affectionately known as hipster tech. These are mostly your so-called NoSQL, big-data, ect databases. Trying to interact with these databases required numerous scripts to be written, one for each database implementation. After chatting to @PaulWebSec I decided to merge these into a single tool. Thus HippyDB Tool was born. The following databases are supported: Aerospike Cassandra Hbase Hive Memcached Mongodb Redis Riak A quick scan of AWS and Google Cloud hosting showed that the vast majority of these databases are deployed on default ports, listening on all interfaces and most critically, without any authentication....

June 14, 2015 · 2 min · 377 words · Etienne Stalmans