diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a3991825..8ef20f01 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+* 2017-12-13 Default umask for logs is now 0007. This means group members can access.
 * 2017-10-24 Can store uploaded and downloaded artifacts to S3
 * 2017-09-23 First proxy implementation for exec commands only
 * 2017-07-03 Cuckoo v2 integration
diff --git a/bin/cowrie b/bin/cowrie
index 3d819dee..677a9a52 100755
--- a/bin/cowrie
+++ b/bin/cowrie
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ cowrie_status() {
 cowrie_start() {
     # Start Cowrie
     COWRIEARGS="$*"
-    TWISTEDARGS="${DAEMONIZE} ${XARGS} --umask 0077 --pidfile ${PIDFILE}"
+    TWISTEDARGS="${DAEMONIZE} ${XARGS} --umask 0007 --pidfile ${PIDFILE}"
 
     # For Docker log to stdout, for non-Docker log to file
     if [ "$DOCKER" = "yes" ]; then