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 ...

Leaky Amazon S3 buckets can expose sensitive customer and employee data, passwords and internal business documents. Since 2017, there has been an overwhelming number of sensitive data disclosure ...

The need for AWS security has increased as S3 buckets have evolved from a dumping ground for data to the home for critical cloud-native applications, says Clumio co-founder and CEO Poojan Kumar. See ...

Starting in April 2023, Amazon S3 will change the default security configuration for all new S3 buckets. For new buckets created after this date, S3 Block Public Access will be enabled, and S3 access ...

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 ...

In March of this year, Hobby Lobby, a national arts and crafts retailer, had 138GB of data, including payment card info and physical addresses, plucked out of an open Amazon S3 bucket. Events like ...

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 ...

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.

Twilio, the cloud communications platform-as-a-service (CPaaS) giant, has confirmed a security incident in which attackers accessed a misconfigured Amazon AWS S3 bucket and modified the TaskRouter ...