All posts tagged "Security"
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LA Times AWS Server Cryptojacked
In what is starting to become a regular occurrence these days, the LA Times suffered from a cryptojacking attack due to an unsecured AWS server....
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Unprotected AWS Bucket Exposes 50 GB Financial Data
An AWS bucket belonging to Birst, a cloud business intelligence and analytics firm, was left exposed to the public, revealing no less than 50.4 GB...
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Inpixon Selects AWS For Indoor Positioning Analytics
Leading indoor positioning and data analytics company, Inpixon, has announced that it will be using Amazon Web Services to deliver a greater range of SaaS...
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Crypto Miners Hijack Tesla AWS Servers
In proof that no one is immune to crypto mining attacks, Tesla AWS servers were found to have been hijacked to run crypto mining scrips...
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AWS Makes Its S3 Status Checking Tool Available For Free
The worry is real. In a sign that Amazon Web Services is still worried about poorly configured buckets on its S3 service, the company has...
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BuckHacker Tool Helps You Find Unsecure AWS Buckets
AWS buckets in the news again, but this time for a good cause! Or reason, what have you. A new search tool that goes by...
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Thousands Of FedEx Customers Left Exposed On AWS
Et tu, FedEx? In what is now becoming an alarmingly regular occurrence, an unsecure AWS S3 server has exposed personal information of tens of thousands...
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AWS Boosts DynamoDB Encryption
Security paramount. Amazon has recently upped the ante for its NoSQL database service, DynamoDB, which now comes with improved encryption and increased security options. Keener...
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CloudPassage Halo Lands On AWS Marketplace
Another day, another arrival. CloudPassage has announced the availability of its award-winning security automation platform that goes by the name of Halo, on the AWS...
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AWS Acquires Sqrrl
What secrecy is this! Amazon Web Services has acquired Sqrrl, a security startup that is said to have NSA roots, with the founders previously having...
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Armor Anywhere Now Available In The AWS Marketplace
Armor Anywhere Now Available In The AWS Marketplace AWS Marketplace has a new entry today, as Armor Anywhere, a new cloud security solution has landed...
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AWS CPUs See 25% Performance Hit After Meltdown Patch
It’s a meltdown alright! While conflicting reports have surfaced regarding the performance impact of the newly discovered CPU bugs on the cloud world, more information...
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Protegrity Joins AWS Partner Network
Protegrity, an up and coming provider of data centric enterprise data solutions, has announced that it has become part of the AWS Partner Network, as...
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Open AWS S3 Bucket Exposes 123 Million US Households
Year end surprise? A cloud based data repository belonging to Alteryx has been found to publicly expose datasets from its partners, Experian and the US...
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Symantec Secures Cloud Deal With AWS
How’s that for a headline! Symantec has been flying high lately, after making some big moves in recent years to expand into new areas. And...
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Massive US Pentagon Data Left Exposed On AWS S3
There are troves, and then there is this. More than 1.8 billion posts spanning eight years, many of them related to people in the US....
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ABC Confirms AWS S3 Data Leak
Here we go again! Australian Broadcasting Corporation, better known as ABC, is the latest organization to confirm a data leak when an unsecured AWS S3...
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Lacework Can Now Identify Leaky S3 Buckets
Lacework has announced new features for its automated cloud security platform that enable AWS users to continuously maintain configurations that are compliant with proven security...
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Aqua Security Launches Security Scanner For Container Images
Another new arrival on the AWS Marketplace. Aqua Security has just unveiled their pay-per-scan offering that allows customers to ensure that their container images are...
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AWS Private Keys Spill Costs DXC $64,000
Unknown persons in on the act! A technician with DXC Technologies accidentally uploaded the AWS private keys of the outsourcing firm on a public GitHub...
