Security News

AWS Launches New Tools for Firewalls, Certificates, Credentials
2018-04-05 05:19

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced on Wednesday the launch of several tools and services designed to help customers manage their firewalls, use private certificates, and safely store credentials....

An Open Letter to AWS CEO Andy Jassy on Cloud Security Innovation
2018-03-16 12:40

Brian Ahern, CEO & Chairman of Threat Stack, writes an open letter to Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy.

To prevent data breaches, AWS offers S3 bucket permissions check to all users
2018-02-21 20:12

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that all customers can now freely check whether their S3 buckets are leaking stored data. “Previously available only to Business and Enterprise support...

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.