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 ...

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 ...

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The Amazon Web Services Cloud Development Kit (CDK), a popular open source tool, allows cyber teams to conveniently build software-defined cloud infrastructure with widely used programming languages, ...

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 ...