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 ...

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 ...

New research from cloud security firm Ermetic shows that nearly all businesses have identities that, if compromised, would place at least 90 percent of the S3 buckets in their AWS account at risk.

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Magecart hackers have compromised thousands of websites with digital skimming code by scanning for misconfigured Amazon S3 buckets, researchers have warned. First discovered in May, the campaign is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abandoned cloud storage buckets present a major, but largely overlooked, threat to Internet security, new research has shown. The risks arise when bad actors discover and re-register these neglected ...

Although the default settings keep S3 data private, configuration errors have exposed data to the world. Even the NSA has screwed up As long as you know the right URL, anyone with access to the ...