Unsecured Elasticsearch and MongoDB databases have been targeted in hacking attacks that erase all data. There are no ransom demands. These are being called Meow Attacks because they leave a ...

Elastic founder and CTO Shay Banon explains why the company returned to open source, four years after going proprietary.

The researchers said they discovered the database after running a query in Elasticsearch, a tool people can use to search, analyze, and visualize, large volumes of data.