Re: Meow attacks

2020-07-28 Thread Odysci
Folks, thanks for the replies. We do use VPCs in AWS and the ZK ports are only open to the solr machines (also in the same VPC). We're using Solr 8.3 and ZK 3.5.6 We will investigate the Kerberos authentication. thanks Reinaldo On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 6:03 PM Jörn Franke wrote: > In Addition wh

Re: Meow attacks

2020-07-28 Thread Jörn Franke
In Addition what has been said before (use private networks/firewall rules) - activate Kerberos authentication so that only Solr hosts can write to Zk (the Solr client needs no write access) and use encryption where possible. Upgrade Solr to the latest version, use ssl , enable Kerberos, have cl

Re: Meow attacks

2020-07-28 Thread David Hastings
so, your zookeeper/solr servers have public facing addresses/ports? On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 4:41 PM Odysci wrote: > Folks, > > I suspect one of our Zookeeper installations on AWS was subject to a Meow > attack ( > > https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/07/more-than-1000-database

Re: Meow attacks

2020-07-28 Thread matthew sporleder
On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 4:39 PM Odysci wrote: > > Folks, > > I suspect one of our Zookeeper installations on AWS was subject to a Meow > attack ( > https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/07/more-than-1000-databases-have-been-nuked-by-mystery-meow-attack/ > ) > > Basically, the configu