Blackout: How Engineering Firm Exposes Critical Infrastructure Data - Seguridad Mania.com - España y América Latina

Learn about a data exposure discovered from within the systems of Texas-based electrical engineering firm Power Quality Engineering (PQE), revealing the sensitive data of clients like Dell, the City of Austin, Oracle, and Texas Instruments, among others. Left accessible to the wider internet via a port used for rsync server synchronization but configured to allow public access, the breach allowed any interested browser to download sensitive electrical infrastructure data compiled in reports by PQE inspectors examining customer facilities. Dan O’Sullivan, the analyst who first broke the story, will go through the details of the discovery and the significant impact of this data exposure. For the original article: https://www.upguard.com/breaches/data-leak-pqe