Security News

AWS Launches New Cybersecurity Services
2017-11-30 14:49

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced this week at its AWS re:Invent conference the launch of several new cybersecurity services, including for threat detection, IoT security, and secure...

AWS allows customers to manage and protect IoT devices
2017-11-30 13:54

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced six significant services and capabilities for connected devices at the edge. AWS IoT 1-Click, AWS IoT Device Management, AWS IoT Device Defender, AWS IoT...

Leaky AWS Storage Bucket Spills Military Secrets, Again
2017-11-28 22:11

For the second time in ten days, researchers at UpGuard released sensitive data belonging to the United States Defense Department that was stored insecurely online.

AWS S3 Buckets at Risk of "GhostWriter" MiTM Attack
2017-11-06 13:25

GhostWriter: Writable AWS S3 Buckets Could Be Exploited to Overwrite Existing Data and Files, or Upload Malware read more

AWS Bucket Leaks Viacom Critical Data
2017-09-20 14:18

An Amazon Web Services S3 cloud storage bucket containing a great deal of Viacom internal access credentials and other critical data was left publicly accessible, UpGuard security researchers have...

Four Million Time Warner Cable Records Left on Misconfigured AWS S3 (Threatpost)
2017-09-05 18:06

600 gigabytes of information, including SQL database dumps, code, access logs, and customer information, belonging to BroadSoft and its client, TWC, was left online, accessible to anyone.

Military Contractor’s Vendor Leaks Resumes in Misconfigured AWS S3 (Threatpost)
2017-09-05 16:16

Thousands of resumes and job applications from U.S. military veterans, law enforcement, and others were leaked by a recruiting vendor in an unsecured AWS S3 bucket.

Vendor Exposes Backup of Chicago Voter Roll via AWS Bucket (Threatpost)
2017-08-18 17:55

Voter registration data belonging to the entirety of Chicago’s electoral roll—1.8 million records—was found a week ago in an Amazon Web Services bucket.

Amazon Launches AWS Data Protection Service (Security Week)
2017-08-16 09:57

Amazon announced this week the launch of Macie, a new security service that helps Amazon Web Services (AWS) users discover, classify and protect sensitive data. read more

Experts Warn Too Often AWS S3 Buckets Are Misconfigured, Leak Data (Threatpost)
2017-07-13 13:00

An analysis of Amazon Web Services storage containers reveals troubling trend of misconfigured S3 buckets that leak data.