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Research from Lightspin indicates that AWS S3 Buckets are not as secure as many users may think. Lightspin, which specializes in cloud security services, inspected more than 40,000 Amazon S3 buckets and found that improperly configured AWS permissions… Continue reading Report Reveals AWS S3 Buckets are Poorly Protected
Cloud threats are on the rise. At any point in time, sensitive data can move between 2,481 different cloud apps and services, making it a prime target for cybercriminals. A recent study by McAfee concluded that there’s been a 630% rise in cyberattacks… Continue reading Five Most Common Cloud Threats
Amazon Simple Storage Service, or S3, is a popular service that many developers today rely on to quickly build applications. Over time, S3 has become a popular target for attackers, resulting in a large number of data leaks. Most of them, such as the … Continue reading Understanding and Preventing S3 Leaks
A data leak containing 54,000 scanned New South Wales (NSW) driver’s licenses and various tolling notice statutory declarations were discovered by security researcher Bob Diachenko last week. “More than 50K scanned driver licenses (front+back) and toll… Continue reading Security Researcher Discovers Over 50,000 Scanned Driver’s Licenses Exposed on Unsecured Amazon Server
Former Amazon employee Paige Thompson, who was arrested last month in relation to the Capital One data breach, has been accused of hacking not only the U.S. credit card issuer, but also more than 30 other companies.
An indictment unsealed on Wednesday… Continue reading Capital One Hacker Also Accused of Hacking 30 More Companies and CryptoJacking
Patient medical history and over 6 million email addresses tied to Democrats were detailed in a misconfigured storage buckets over the past few weeks. Continue reading Democrats and Doctors Behind Latest Wave of Leaked Data
Magecart strikes again!
Cybersecurity researchers have identified yet another supply-chain attack carried out by payment card hackers against more than 17,000 web domains, which also include websites in the top 2,000 of Alexa rankings.
Since Magecart… Continue reading Magecart Hackers Infect 17,000 Sites Through Misconfigured Amazon S3 Buckets
Netflix, TD Bank, and Ford were only a few of the companies whose data was exposed by three leaky Amazon S3 buckets owned by Attunity. Continue reading Leaky Amazon S3 Buckets Expose Data of Netflix, TD Bank
Researchers say that two publicly exposed dataset are leaking Facebook data- from user names to plaintext passwords. Continue reading Facebook Data of Millions Exposed in Leaky Datasets
Octoly’s incident response was sorely lacking, says the Upguard researcher who found the exposed repository. Continue reading Leaky Amazon S3 Bucket Exposes Personal Data of 12,000 Social Media Influencers