Facepalm: Amazon S3 buckets, part of the Amazon Web Services infrastructure, are great for storing and managing huge amounts of data at scale, but they can also become a financial and security risk if ...

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US data analytics provider Alteryx has left an Amazon S3 storage bucket exposed online, leaking the sensitive details of over 123 million US households in the process. The unprotected server was found ...

Attackers are using an exploit kit to spread the Zminer executable that downloads a cryptocurrency miner hosted in an Amazon S3 bucket. As Bitcoin’s price continues to soar beyond $4,000 USD per, ...

The lack of care being taken to correctly configure cloud environments has once again been highlighted by two serious data leaks in the UK caused by misconfigured Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) ...

Configuration data for GoDaddy servers could be used as a reconnaissance tool for malicious actors to uncover ripe targets. GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, has exposed high-level ...

Each new week seemingly brings with it another disturbing discovery of personal data left unsecured and exposed on the internet. Different companies — spanning industries as varied as pornography, ...

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) will now automatically encrypt all new objects added on buckets on the server side, using AES-256 by default. While the server-side encryption system has been ...