Personal and business data belonging to Boston area meeting and hotel booking provider Groupize was discovered in a publicly accessible Amazon Web Services S3 bucket, which has since been locked down.

Each new week seemingly brings with it another disturbing discovery of personal data left unsecured and exposed on the internet. Different companies — spanning industries as varied as pornography, ...

Amazon's Web Services division has rolled out new security features to AWS account owners today that are meant to prevent accidental data exposures caused by the misconfiguration of S3 data storage ...

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 ...

Ethical hackers are warning businesses who use Amazon S3 cloud storage if they have left data exposed for anyone to access... by leaving "friendly warnings" on the servers. All indications suggest ...

Facepalm: Amazon S3 buckets, part of the Amazon Web Services infrastructure, are great for storing and managing huge amounts of data at scale, but they can also become a financial and security risk if ...

Hackers can exploit exposed Amazon S3 buckets to carry out silent Man-in-the-Middle attacks or other hacks on a company's customers or internal staff. Codenamed GhostWriter, the technique relies on an ...

Editors' note: This article and its headline was updated to correct details about ownership of the S3 bucket and contents therein. Another week, another publicly accessible AWS storage cloud found to ...

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 ...