Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is a scalable object storage service provided by AWS that enables users to store and retrieve data from anywhere on the web. It is widely used for a variety of ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a proof of concept for a document indexing system he was building for a client, Pocwierz created a single S3 bucket in the AWS ' eu-west-1 ' region and uploaded several files for testing. After ...

Using a combination of relatively low-tech techniques and tools, security researchers have discovered that they can access the contents of one in six Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets. Those ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...