Magecart Hackers Infect 17,000 Sites Through Misconfigured Amazon S3 Buckets

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

Fortune 100 passwords, email archives, and corporate secrets left exposed on unsecured Amazon S3 servers

Some of the world’s biggest companies have had 750GB worth of their innermost secrets revealed on unsecured Amazon S3 buckets, available for anybody to download – no password required.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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Storing user’s private files on S3 and securing access using signed URLs – good idea?

I will be storing private user’s files on S3. The files will be PDFs, possibly containing private financial information.

I’m considering letting users directly access the files on S3, without proxying all the traffic throug… Continue reading Storing user’s private files on S3 and securing access using signed URLs – good idea?

AWS S3 resource access control through IAM permissions or bucket policies?

The way we create buckets in our org and ensure sane ACLs around it is by providing an automated tool (that internally uses Terraform) to provision an S3 bucket. So say when a user requests for a new bucket, named testBucket we create a bu… Continue reading AWS S3 resource access control through IAM permissions or bucket policies?

App Developers Left 540 Million Facebook Users’ Records on the Public Internet

The exposures didn’t come from Facebook itself, but do show how data generated by one company can end up exposed thanks to another service. Continue reading App Developers Left 540 Million Facebook Users’ Records on the Public Internet