What is an Amazon S3 bucket? An Amazon S3 bucket is a public cloud storage resource available in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3) platform. It provides object-based storage, where ...

Hardly a week goes by that we don’t hear about an organization leaving sensitive data exposed on the Internet because they failed to properly configure their Amazon S3 buckets. Amazon Web Services, to ...

Leaky Amazon S3 buckets can expose sensitive customer and employee data, passwords and internal business documents. Since 2017, there has been an overwhelming number of sensitive data disclosure ...

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, ...

Ethical hackers are warning businesses who use Amazon S3 cloud storage if they have left data exposed for anyone to access... by leaving "friendly warnings" on the servers. All indications suggest ...

Cloud hosting and cloud storage is all the rage, but there are still some common pitfalls that many organizations overlook. In this article I will walk through an issue that seems to be coming up a ...

A ransomware group is targeting Amazon S3 buckets, exploiting the data stored there using AWS's server-side encryption with customer keys and demanding a ransom in exchange for the encryption key ...

Using a combination of relatively low-tech techniques and tools, security researchers have discovered that they can access the contents of one in six Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets. Those ...

Services like Amazon’s S3 have made it easier and cheaper than ever to store large quantities of data in the cloud. Used properly, S3 buckets are a useful tool that can save time and money. Used ...

Thousands of Americans with classified security clearance had their personal information exposed over the weekend by a misconfigured Amazon server. Around the same time, another unsecured Amazon ...

UPDATE – With companies flocking to cloud services such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) to store and serve static content on the cheap, naturally they’re making simple mistakes in doing so—and ...