110K domains targeted in 'sophisticated' AWS cloud extortion campaign Updated If you needed yet another reminder of what happens when security basics go awry Research21 Aug 2024 | 4
AWS customer faces staggering charges over S3 bucket misfire Updated Open source tool fingered for 100 million PUT requests and $1,300 in a day Storage01 May 2024 | 66
AWS S3 is 'pushing to become primary storage for a lot of applications' re:Invent We speak to Andy Warfield, AWS distinguished engineer Storage12 Dec 2023 | 6
Hijacked S3 buckets used in attacks on npm packages Cybercrooks use abandoned AWS storage tool to deliver malware Storage19 Jun 2023 | 7
Lantum S3 bucket leak is prescription for chaos for thousands of UK doctors Updated Freelance agency exposed personal details that would be highly valuable in the wrong hands Cyber-crime12 Jun 2023 | 12
AWS strains to make Simple Storage Service not so simple to screw up Not Amazon's fault buckets are exposed, but the loaded shotgun and your foot are all there ready and waiting Security14 Dec 2022 | 22
AWS Snowball edge compute capacity snowballs beyond 100 vCPUs, 400GB of memory There's a fat AMD Rome under the hood and 28TB of storage too On-Prem20 Oct 2022 |
ServiceNow ordered a year's worth of hardware to avoid supply chain hassles CTO shares datacenter secrets with The Reg: NVMe, MariaDB, mid-range x86 CPUs, S3-alike, and more On-Prem25 May 2022 | 16
Leaky AWS S3 buckets are so common, they're being found by the thousands now – with lots of buried secrets When will this madness end? Security03 Aug 2020 | 47
Oh cool, more Cisco patches to apply. Happy Monday In Brief Meanwhile, KDE desktops can be pwned by evil archives OSes03 Aug 2020 |
Twilio: Someone waltzed into our unsecured AWS S3 silo, added dodgy code to our JavaScript SDK for customers Exclusive API dev kit remained modified for hours, says source Security21 Jul 2020 | 22
FTP is crusty and mostly dead, right? AWS just started supporting it anyway Somebody’s got to help you run legacy apps with dignity SaaS27 Apr 2020 | 26
How to make a stranger's insecure 3D printer halt-and-catch-fire – plus more alerts from infosec world Roundup San Francisco Airport websites hacked, VMware patches emitted, etc Security13 Apr 2020 | 24
You know all those stories of leaky cloud buckets taken offline? Well, some may still be there, just badly hidden Roundup Plus, Google warns of fake journo phishing attacks Security30 Mar 2020 | 3
Small business loans app blamed as 500,000 financial records leak out of ... you guessed it, an open S3 bucket Bank info, driver's license copies and more found, report researchers Security18 Mar 2020 | 16
It is with a heavy heart we must inform you, once again, folks are accidentally spilling thousands of sensitive pics, records onto the internet Roundup Plus: Iranians accused of hacking IT service providers to get at their customers Security17 Feb 2020 | 20
Sorry to be blunt about this... Open AWS S3 storage bucket just made 30,000 potheads' privacy go up in smoke Talk about high tech: Software maker exposes cloud silo of personal info in tale of security gone bong SaaS23 Jan 2020 | 24
What do Brit biz consultants and X-rated cam stars have in common? Wide open... AWS S3 buckets on public internet Exposed: Intimate... personal details belonging to thousands of folks Security15 Jan 2020 | 17
Teletext Holidays a) exists and b) left 200k customer call recordings exposed in S3 bucket Get your grandparents to book with someone else Security02 Sep 2019 | 45
When did you last check your AWS S3 security? Here's four scary words: 17k Magecart infections Card-slurping malware hits thousands upon thousands of unprotected cloud storage silos SaaS12 Jul 2019 | 5
It's time to reset the 'Days without a Facebook data loss' sign after 500 million records left exposed on AWS App devs fail to lock down their databases, yet again Security03 Apr 2019 | 35
Veeam: Users are crying out for cloud tiers At least we hope so – 'cos here are some 'infinite' cloudy backup repositories Storage22 Jan 2019 | 3
Amazon tries to ruin infosec world's fastest-growing cottage industry (finding data-spaffing S3 storage buckets) AWS comes up with blanket policies to smother public-facing cloud silos SaaS16 Nov 2018 | 8
Someone's in hot water: Tea party super PAC group 'spilled 500,000+ voters' info' all over web Leaky AWS S3 bucket fingered by infosec bods Security17 Oct 2018 | 27
Web doc iCliniq plugs leaky S3 bucket stuffed full of medical records Exclusive Even the file names exposed sensitive info, claim researchers Security03 Aug 2018 | 13
Who's leaving Amazon S3 buckets open online now? Cybercrooks, US election autodialers Hundreds of thousands of voter records and contact info spilled Security18 Jul 2018 | 22
Millions of scraped public social net profiles left in open AWS S3 box Poorly configured cloud buckets strike again – this time, LocalBlox fingered Security19 Apr 2018 | 13
From Bangkok to Phuket, they cry out: Oh, Bucket! Thai mobile operator spills 46k people's data S3 spillage spoils included driving licences and passports Security13 Apr 2018 | 8
Uber hid database hack from FTC while FTC probed Uber for an earlier database hack Cab-hailing upstart shows it takes your privacy seriously On-Prem12 Apr 2018 | 25
AWSome, S3 storage literally costs pennies Just ignore the retrieval fees and relatively lower resilience SaaS05 Apr 2018 | 7
Guys, you're killing us! LA Times homicide site hacked to mine crypto-coins on netizens' PCs And they say there's no money to be made in newspapers Security22 Feb 2018 | 5
Oh, Bucket! AWS in S3 status-checking tool free-for-all 'Your data is waiting for the internet to download it' warning lights are now free Storage21 Feb 2018 | 5
When it absolutely, positively needs to be leaked overnight: 120k FedEx customer files spill from AWS S3 silo Passport scans, drivers licenses, etc, exposed online SaaS15 Feb 2018 | 20
NSA code backported, crims cuffed, leaky AWS S3 buckets, and more Roundup But it's not all good news! Security10 Feb 2018 | 19
Good news: Unsecured Amazon Web Services S3 bucket discovery just got easier Oh, that's not good news is it? On-Prem05 Dec 2017 | 10
US credit repair biz damages own security: 111GB of personal info exposed in S3 blunder Oh look, another AWS misconfiguration spillage SaaS02 Dec 2017 | 25
Massive US military social media spying archive left wide open in AWS S3 buckets Dozens of terabytes exposed, your tax dollars at work Security17 Nov 2017 | 66
Australian Broadcasting Corporation leaks passwords, video from AWS S3 bucket 'Advance video content' and years of backups dangled in the cloud SaaS16 Nov 2017 |
Back up bod Druva paddles even further up the Amazon +Comment Offering cloud-to-cloud backup and data intelligence Storage13 Nov 2017 |
Nutanix builds doorway to multiple compute and object storage services .NEXT On the path to becoming an enterprise hybrid cloud provider and gateway SaaS08 Nov 2017 | 1
Feasting on Azure blobs: Caringo and Scality are doing it Adding S3 gateways to Mr Blobby's storage in the Microsoft cloud Storage27 Sep 2017 |
Guess – go on, guess – where a vehicle tracking company left half a million records No prize, because it's too easy: SVR Tracking had an unsecured AWS S3 bucket Security25 Sep 2017 | 14
Aw, not you too, Verizon: US telco joins list of leaky AWS S3 buckets Now is a good time to go check your own Amazon settings. It's OK, we'll wait Security22 Sep 2017 | 13
Don't panic, Chicago, but an AWS S3 config blunder exposed 1.8 million voter records Personal info spills from another poorly secured Amazon service Security17 Aug 2017 | 16
Security company finds unsecured bucket of US military images on AWS You're only as secure as your suppliers and some military contractors look to be well leaky Security01 Jun 2017 | 31
Azure storage browns out for eight hours, nobody notices Storage cluster lost power and Azure flickered as a result SaaS17 Mar 2017 | 8
SwiftStack drops v5.0, says hybrid IT rules OK! Blasts data between on-prem and public cloud Storage06 Mar 2017 |
Amazon S3-izure cause: Half the web vanished because an AWS bod fat-fingered a command Basically, Team Bezos pulled a GitLab SaaS02 Mar 2017 | 93
Tuesday's AWS S3-izure exposes Amazon-sized internet bottleneck Analysis Exposes Bezos' customers' inadequate BC/DR plans, too Storage01 Mar 2017 | 50
AWS's S3 outage was so bad Amazon couldn't get into its own dashboard to warn the world Websites, apps, security cams, IoT gear knackered SaaS01 Mar 2017 | 122
Amazon's AWS S3 cloud storage evaporates: Top websites, Docker stung 'Increased error rates' is the new 'outage', according to Bezos' bit-barn bods SaaS28 Feb 2017 | 107
Enterprise IT storage – where being fat and very dense is, um, a good thing. Right, Cloudian? Cali upstart peddles 4U HyperStore 4000 box Storage16 Feb 2017 | 3
Nifty website claims to make comparing cloud costs simple. Good luck with that Covers AWS, Azure, Google clouds and more SaaS14 Feb 2017 | 15
Did somebody say object storage? 9 ways to tell if there's a point Comment Tick 'em off, impress the boardroom Storage18 Jan 2017 | 4
Gluster techie shows off 'MySQL of object storage' Minio projects Backgrounder Github star count has it beating Ceph and Swift Software21 Dec 2016 | 7
Scality reinvents the RING, adds extra Amazon S3 polish Software-flinger improves security, integration with v6.4 Storage29 Nov 2016 |
NooBaa wraps AWS S3 wool around Microsoft Azure Blob storage Upstart lets apps use on and off-prem storage in two shakes of a lamb's tail Storage07 Nov 2016 | 2
Startup dusts off rent-a-box on-premises corpse, adds ARM muscle, cloud brains A sprinkling of Internet of Things ... and ... it's alive! Storage12 Oct 2016 | 2
Ditch tape and fly into the public cloud with us, beams bullish Actifio Comment Deduping backup boxen are 'rarely usable'? Whatever SaaS02 Sep 2016 | 8
Backblaze hopes to melt Amazon Glacier customers' hearts Offers three ‘nines’ SLA and 75% lower price Storage11 Jul 2016 | 6
Brit startup adds intelligent search to Amazon storage Real-time access to public cloud storage Storage24 Jun 2016 | 5