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by xyst 824 days ago
So a user (or white hat?) alerts them to security issue on their endpoint. Email comes in at 4:55 PDT on a Friday.

[first red flag] No internal monitoring to check for unauthorized access

Poor engineer(s) tasked with issue on a Friday at end of work day manually rakes logs in their app. After ~1 hr of searching, discovers unauthorized device using leaked credentials

[second red flag] allows any device to hook into their critical infrastructure and access apis that have potential to expose PII and possibly move laterally within the org or customers.

Then poor engineers tasked with painstaking task to rotate all of the tokens throughout the night. Bye bye family time, any planned events (game tickets?). I hate this company already and I have no clue wtf they do.

[third red flag] why the fuck are they storing user tokens in a database. This is apparently a “SOC 2” certified application/company. Shows how much that is worth here.

[edit: fourth red flag] no indication of how long the unauthorized credentials have been used and what customers have been impacted. Very very piss poor logging or purposely omitting due to potential litigation issues

Probably missed a few but this is bad.

The “S” in Mintify clearly stands for security.