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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Amazon Web Services Cloud Development Kit (CDK), a popular open source tool, allows cyber teams to conveniently build software-defined cloud infrastructure with widely used programming languages, ...

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 ...

It's interesting that people are jumping to "Amazon should just eat the costs by default", though-- if you had a home server with a web server properly configured to reject unauthenticated calls, you ...