Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about hackers, breaches and enterprise security. Ever since 2012 I’ve watched with alacrity as the velocity and scale of ...

Services like Amazon’s S3 have made it easier and cheaper than ever to store large quantities of data in the cloud. Used properly, S3 buckets are a useful tool that can save time and money. Used ...

Attackers can gain access to AWS accounts or sensitive data by creating in advance S3 storage buckets with predictable names that will be automatically used by various services and tools. Researchers ...

TL;DR Introduction In practice, it is still hard to keep secrets safe in the cloud. All major cloud service providers have ...

An analysis of Amazon Web Services storage containers reveals troubling trend of misconfigured S3 buckets that leak data. Reasons why this keeps on happening vary. But, Detectify Labs believes many ...

New research from cloud security firm Ermetic shows that nearly all businesses have identities that, if compromised, would place at least 90 percent of the S3 buckets in their AWS account at risk.

Hackers can achieve public write access to write files to protected S3 buckets and store data at a victim's expense TEL AVIV, Israel, June 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Lightspin, a pioneer in contextual ...

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Abandoned cloud storage buckets present a major, but largely overlooked, threat to Internet security, new research has shown. The risks arise when bad actors discover and re-register these neglected ...

Cyber criminals launching Magecart credit card-skimming attacks continue to take advantage of lax attitudes to securing Amazon Web Services Simple Storage Service (AWS S3) to inveigle their way into ...