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Amazon S3 Bucket Exposed GoDaddy Server Information
2018-08-13 01:51

A publicly accessible Amazon S3 bucket was found storing documents apparently detailing GoDaddy infrastructure running in the Amazon AWS cloud, UpGuard reveals. read more

Web doc iCliniq plugs leaky S3 bucket full of medical files
2018-08-03 13:34

Even the file names exposed sensitive info, claim researchers Exclusive Online medical consultation service iCliniq has restricted access to thousands of medical documents it left in a public AWS...

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...

Leaky Amazon S3 Bucket Exposes Personal Data of 12,000 Social Media Influencers
2018-02-06 21:15

Octoly's incident response was sorely lacking, says the Upguard researcher who found the exposed repository.

Amazon Adds New Encryption, Security Features to S3
2017-11-08 14:07

Amazon announced this week that it has added five new security and encryption features to its Simple Storage Service (S3), including one that alerts users of publicly accessible buckets. read more

New Amazon S3 encryption and security features introduced
2017-11-07 17:32

Amazon Web Services has announced the availability of five new encryption and security features for the Amazon S3 cloud storage service. These include: Default object encryption; Permission...

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

Internal Accenture Data, Customer Information Exposed in Public Amazon S3 Bucket
2017-10-10 19:32

Global consulting firm Accenture is the latest giant organization leaving sensitive internal and customer data exposed in a publicly available Amazon Web Services S3 storage bucket.

Chris Vickery on Amazon S3 Data Leaks
2017-09-25 15:15

Mike Mimoso talks to Chris Vickery of Upguard of the recent rash of Amazon S3 data leaks.

Verizon Wireless Internal Credentials, Infrastructure Details Exposed in Amazon S3 Bucket
2017-09-22 19:56

Verizon is the latest company to leak confidential data through an exposed Amazon S3 bucket.