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Viacom Left Sensitive Data And Secret Access Key On Unsecured Amazon Server

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Viacom—the popular entertainment and media company that owns Paramount Pictures, Comedy Central, MTV, and hundreds of other properties—has exposed the keys to its kingdom on an unsecured Amazon S3 server.

A security researcher working for California-based cyber resiliency firm UpGuard has recently discovered a wide-open, public-facing misconfigured Amazon Web Server S3 cloud storage bucket

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Minio scores $20 million Series A to build a neutral object storage layer

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 Minio has a plan to become the neutral object storage layer, while still maintaining Amazon S3 object storage compatibility. That may seem like an odd strategy, but as CEO Anand Babu Periasamy, co-founder and CEO of Minio points out, there is a clear market need.
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Time Warner Hacked – AWS Config Exposes 4M Subscribers

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Time Warner Hacked – AWS Config Exposes 4M Subscribers

What’s the latest on the web, Time Warner Hacked is what it’s about now as a bad AWS S3 config (once again) exposes the details of approximately 4 Million subscribers.

This follows not long after the Instagram API leaking user contact information and a few other recent leaks involving poorly secured Amazon AWS S3 buckets and I’d hazard a guess that it won’t be the last.

Records of roughly four million Time Warner Cable customers in the US were exposed to the public internet after a contractor failed to properly secure an Amazon cloud database.

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News in brief: veterans among S3 leak victims; court rules on email privacy; man jailed for VPN sales

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Meeting and Hotel Booking Provider’s Data Found in Public Amazon S3 Bucket

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Personal and business data belonging to Boston area meeting and hotel booking provider Groupize was discovered in a publicly accessible Amazon Web Services S3 bucket, which has since been locked down. Continue reading Meeting and Hotel Booking Provider’s Data Found in Public Amazon S3 Bucket→

Meeting and Hotel Booking Provider’s Data Found in Public Amazon S3 Bucket

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Personal and business data belonging to Boston area meeting and hotel booking provider Groupize was discovered in a publicly accessible Amazon Web Services S3 bucket, which has since been locked down. Continue reading Meeting and Hotel Booking Provider’s Data Found in Public Amazon S3 Bucket→

Over 14 Million Verizon Customers’ Data Exposed On Unprotected AWS Server

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Verizon, the major telecommunications provider, has suffered a data security breach with over 14 million US customers’ personal details exposed on the Internet after NICE Systems, a third-party vendor, mistakenly left the sensitive users’ details open on a server.

Chris Vickery, researcher and director of cyber risk research at security firm UpGuard, discovered the exposed data on an

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