Identity Documents Exposed in FedEx-Owned Amazon S3 Bucket

More than 119,000 scanned identity documents, including passports and drivers’ licenses, belonging to people from the United States and abroad were exposed in an insecure Amazon S3 storage bucket. The storage bucket belonged to a company called B… Continue reading Identity Documents Exposed in FedEx-Owned Amazon S3 Bucket

Apple Fixes MacOS High Sierra Root Access Vulnerability

Apple has released an emergency fix for an embarrassing vulnerability that allowed people to access the highest privileges account on Mac computers without a password. The vulnerability was disclosed by a user Tuesday on Twitter. He noticed that when p… Continue reading Apple Fixes MacOS High Sierra Root Access Vulnerability

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