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 ...

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Barely a day goes by without news of yet another breach of an AWS S3 bucket. But these breaches are preventable. AWS is a powerful and highly secure cloud environment, but it must be configured and ...

Amazon's Web Services division has rolled out new security features to AWS account owners today that are meant to prevent accidental data exposures caused by the misconfiguration of S3 data storage ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

TEL-AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Perception Point, a leading email and collaboration security company, offering fast interception of content-based attacks as a service, announced today its Advanced ...

Cyber criminals launching Magecart credit card-skimming attacks continue to take advantage of lax attitudes to securing Amazon Web Services Simple Storage Service (AWS S3) to inveigle their way into ...

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 ...