Security News > 2018 > November > New security feature to prevent Amazon S3 bucket misconfiguration and data leaks
2018-11-19 12:36
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 their credit, are trying to prevent this from happening. For one, all newly created S3 buckets and objects (files and directories in the bucket) are by default private, i.e. not publicly accesible by random people via the Internet. Secondly, changes implemented earlier … More → The post New security feature to prevent Amazon S3 bucket misconfiguration and data leaks appeared first on Help Net Security.
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