If you’re using Amazon Web Services and your S3 storage bucket can be reached from the open web, you’d do well not to pick a generic name for that space. Avoid “example,” skip “change_me,” don’t even ...
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Attackers can gain access to AWS accounts or sensitive data by creating in advance S3 storage buckets with predictable names that will be automatically used by various services and tools. Researchers ...
An analysis of Amazon Web Services storage containers reveals troubling trend of misconfigured S3 buckets that leak data. Reasons why this keeps on happening vary. But, Detectify Labs believes many ...
Editors' note: This article and its headline was updated to correct details about ownership of the S3 bucket and contents therein. Another week, another publicly accessible AWS storage cloud found to ...
Attackers re-register abandoned AWS S3 buckets filled with malicious files that are executed by applications looking for these buckets. Code references to nonexistent cloud assets continue to pose ...
Well that was not the turn I expected this story to take, based on the title. Nice to see it wasn't necessarily an AWS problem in this instance. Also I definitely want a follow-up on what FOSS project ...