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 ...

Ever since 2012 I’ve watched with alacrity as the velocity and scale of data breaches grew at a pace that almost seemed a daily occurrence. Well, if I’m being fair, I wasn’t enjoying the breaches that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Facepalm: Amazon S3 buckets, part of the Amazon Web Services infrastructure, are great for storing and managing huge amounts of data at scale, but they can also become a financial and security risk if ...

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 ...