via the eponymous Richard Chirgwin, whilst writing at El Reg, comes this unfortunate tale of security flaws within Splunk Enterprise (now, happily patched). First discovered by John Page (aka hyp3rlinx), and published via an advisory at Full Discosure. Here's hyp3rlinxs' source.

For the Record: We have always been pleased with Splunk products, and, most importantly, they are fast and focused when fixing issues.

The takeway? Make an effort to be extraordinarily cognizant of the threats posed by log and machine generated data aggregation in the enterprise. That is all.