In the words of Phineas Fisher:<p>&quot;NoSQL, or rather NoAuthentication, has been a huge gift to the hacker community. Just when I was worried that they&#x27;d finally patched all of the authentication bypass bugs in MySQL, new databases came into style that lack authentication by design.&quot;<p>From his account of the Hacking Team Hack, worth a read if you missed it.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastebin.com&#x2F;raw&#x2F;0SNSvyjJ" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastebin.com&#x2F;raw&#x2F;0SNSvyjJ</a>