There will be a major database attack in the next year, unless businesses act to put in appropriate protection measures, a security firm has warned.
Businesses are being urged to review what they are exposing to the internet to reduce their vulnerability to attack, after a study revealed many were still leaving the door open to attackers.
More than a million endpoints were confirmed to be exposing Microsoft file-sharing services, according to the latest National Exposure Index report by security firm Rapid7.
More than 800,000 of these were Microsoft Windows systems across most products and versions using the server message block (SMB) file-sharing protocol, while port scanning for SMB port 445 returned 5.5 million responsive nodes.
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