What is an Amazon S3 bucket? An Amazon S3 bucket is a public cloud storage resource available in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3) platform. It provides object-based storage, where ...

With the sheer amount of data and users leveraging AWS, it’s easy for misconfigurations to slip through the cracks. One commonly overlooked area is the naming of S3 buckets. AWS S3 bucket names are ...

S3 is a pillar upon which many other Amazon cloud services are built. But plenty of companies that migrate to the cloud each day have no prior AWS experience, which makes S3 a big security concern. S3 ...

Well that was not the turn I expected this story to take, based on the title. Nice to see it wasn't necessarily an AWS problem in this instance. Also I definitely want a follow-up on what FOSS project ...

In the wake of several high-profile data leaks, Amazon Web Services warned customers Wednesday to re-examine S3 storage drives with policies allowing their contents to be shared with the world. AWS ...

AWS’s Trusted Advisor tool, which is supposed to warn customers if their (cloud) S3 storage buckets are publicly exposed, could be “tricked” into reporting them as not exposed when they actually are, ...

Attackers re-register abandoned AWS S3 buckets filled with malicious files that are executed by applications looking for these buckets. Code references to nonexistent cloud assets continue to pose ...

Cloud misconfigurations expose organizations to significant risk, according to a new analysis of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets conducted by Lightspin, a cloud security ...

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 ...

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 ...