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For the second time in ten days, researchers at UpGuard released sensitive data belonging to the United States Defense Department that was stored insecurely online. Continue reading Leaky AWS Storage Bucket Spills Military Secrets, Again
A misconfigured Amazon Web Services server operated by the U.S. Army’s Intelligence and Security Command was publicly available on the open internet, according to findings by UpGuard researcher Chris Vickery. The hard drive’s content, which included classified material belonging to the National Security Agency, was stored on a unprotected, unlisted server, containing information about an outdated Army intelligence sharing project codenamed “Red Disk.” Red Disk represents a defunct project that was previously spearheaded by INSCOM in order to improve one of the Army’s legacy platforms known as the distributed common ground system (DCGS). Red Disk was meant to act as a customizable cloud system for soldiers and other operators in field to access, organize and share active reports regarding military activities, including information gathering efforts. The publicly accessible files provide an overview of how Red Disk functioned and could have been deployed. Other confidential information stored on the disk image included a […]
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