Re:Invent There are two important changes to AWS's ubiquitous S3 storage service arriving soon: first, a new Table bucket type aimed at data analytics; and second, a ...

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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As a proof of concept for a document indexing system he was building for a client, Pocwierz created a single S3 bucket in the AWS ' eu-west-1 ' region and uploaded several files for testing. After ...

A Los Angeles County nonprofit that provides health and human services accidentally exposed about 3.2 million files on an unsecured AWS S3 bucket, according to the UpGuard cyber risk team. 211 LA ...

Cloud misconfigurations expose organizations to significant risk, according to a new analysis of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets conducted by Lightspin, a cloud security ...

In the wake of several high-profile data leaks, Amazon Web Services warned customers Wednesday to re-examine S3 storage drives with policies allowing their contents to be shared with the world. AWS ...

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 ...

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 ...