Insecure Storage Buckets Expose 1.8 Billion Online Posts Scraped for U.S. Military

A Pentagon contractor left three storage buckets publicly accessible on Amazon’s S3 service, exposing more than 1.8 billion online posts collected since 2009. The messages, posted by people from around the world, were likely collected as part of … Continue reading Insecure Storage Buckets Expose 1.8 Billion Online Posts Scraped for U.S. Military

How a port misconfiguration exposed critical infrastructure data

Much has already been said and written about the dangers of potential cyber attacks targeting the electric/power grid. And in Ukraine, they’ve already gone from theoretical scenarios to actual attacks. More limited attacks hitting companies’ electrical systems are also possible, especially when information that provides insight into those systems’ weak points is freely accessible online. If you think that such a thing is unlikely, you probably haven’t yet heard about the most recent discovery made … More Continue reading How a port misconfiguration exposed critical infrastructure data