Some quick tips if you use S3 buckets: Randomise your bucket names! There is no need to use company-backup.s3.amazonaws.com. Set appropriate permissions and audit regularly. If possible create two buckets – one for your public assets and another for private data. Be mindful about your data. What are suppliers, contractors and third parties doing with […]
Trove included more than 1.8 billion posts spanning eight years, many from US people. A Pentagon contractor left a vast archive of social-media posts on a publicly accessible Amazon account in what appears to be a military-sponsored intelligence-gathering operation that targeted people in the US and other parts of the world. The three cloud-based storage […]
UpGuard’s security researcher Chris Vickery has discovered three misconfigured AWS S3 buckets that are available for public access on the internet. The archives contain several terabytes of data, which includes social media posts and similar pages from across the globe. The data is the property of the US military, and it is alleged that the […]
Rhino Security Labs’ researchers have discovered a vulnerability in Amazon’s Key delivery service and Cloud Cam security camera. This vulnerability allows an attacker to manipulate the functioning of the camera to make it go offline due to which it will not be possible to monitor if someone entered a home or not. It is worth […]
Now security researchers have discovered that the camera can be silenced and frozen from a script run from any machine within Wi-Fi range, reports News. That means a consumer watching a delivery will only see a closed door, even if someone reopens the door and goes inside a vulnerability that may provide rogue dispatchers to rob customers’ […]
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Sensitive data leaked online from AWS S3 repositories that included usernames, email addresses, password hashes, and other user details. Leaked data belongs to ABC Commercial that is Division of Australian Broadcasting Corporation that provides a service such as retail, content sales, and consumer publishing, provides content marketing, distribution, and a wide […]
Don’t worry, these vulnerabilities have already been patched out. Back in September, Bluetooth-connected device owners got a little scare when security firm Armis disclosed a new hack exploit known as BlueBorne. In theory, bad actors could target smartphones, tablets and such using specific vectors in Bluetooth connectivity. Armis had informed Apple, Microsoft and Google months before and […]
A series of recently disclosed critical Bluetooth flaws that affect billions of Android, iOS, Windows and Linux devices have now been discovered in millions of AI-based voice-activated personal assistants, including Google Home and Amazon Echo. As estimated during the discovery of this devastating threat, several IoT and smart devices whose operating systems are often updated […]
In September 2017, the IT security researchers at Armis found eight zero-day vulnerabilities in Bluetooth protocol. Dubbed BlueBorne by researchers, these vulnerabilities affected millions of IoT and Windows, Linux, iOS and Android-based devices when their Bluetooth was enabled. Although Windows issued a quick patch for the vulnerability, Armis has now discovered that Amazon Echo and Google Home smart speakers […]
What is Amazon Echo? Amazon Echo is a popular hands-free smart speaker that you can control using your voice. As it’s “smart,” it can do a variety of tasks apart from the regular chore of playing music. Just like me, you can use it to make calls, send and receive messages, get information from the […]
On a recent engagement, our testers were faced with a single page web application which was used to generate PDF documents. This web application contained a multi-step form that ultimately let the user download a PDF document containing the details they had entered. As a user progressed through the form, the data entered would occasionally […]
News of the day is that another big company suffered a security breach, the victim is the Amazon-owned grocery chain Whole Foods Market. has fallen victim to a credit card security breach. Whole Foods Market has around 500 stores in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, the company acquired by Amazon for $13.7 billion […]
The choice of programming language acts as a big factor for a novice in the world of programming. If one stumbles upon a language whose syntax is too complex, one would definitely reconsider learning it. But, what if you’ve crossed that entry barrier and you’re looking to make a career and land a job at […]
Database on Amazon Web Services Containing Sensitive Data of Viacom Is Publicly Available. Amazon Web Services S3 is in the news for all the wrong reasons as its Cloud storage has been found leaking massive amounts of data. A few days back we informed our readers about the findings of Kromtech Security Research Center in […]
Taking over an IoT (Internet of Things) device is nothing new for hackers, but since users have become increasingly dependent on smart devices, the vulnerabilities have increased as well. Recently, a security researcher has discovered that Amazon Echo or Echo, a smart speaker developed by Amazon is vulnerable to physical hack attack. In this attack, an attacker with physical access […]
Messaging apps today are one of the most popular ways consumers communicate today, not just with each other but, increasingly, with businesses and services. Now there are signs that we could see another big player enter the messaging fray, alongside more established services from Facebook, Snapchat, Wechat and more. Amazon appears to be sounding out […]
According to the new report, the US news agency for the US Security Contractors without a password on the file sensitive to Amazon’s public server experience was issued by the country’s top daily newspaper. Upgrading Computer Threats analyst Chris Sale’s cache intelligence agency (Aina Jie), a US military research project at 60,000 Amazon’s Amazon storage […]
Accidents happen to everyone but according to a recent report, this one is a pretty big one. Apparently, some of the confidential data related to the US military project was simply left completely unprotected on a server belonging to Amazon. The data included over 60,000 files with some of the very sensitive info publicly accessible […]
A new wave of cybercrime was reported on the biggest online marketplace, Amazon. Hackers have started using third-party sellers to scam buyers and other merchants to steal thousands of dollars by offering nonexistent goods and by changing the bank account details. In the last several weeks, more and more cases of hacking attacks have been […]
With news of another so-called Fappening (nude photos of celebrities distributed without permission) doing the rounds, it was inevitable that scammers would look to take advantage. We’ve already seen message board aficionados warn others of dodgy download links and random Zipfiles claiming to contain stolen nude photos and video clips, but today we’re going to look […]
The predominant net outage across America earlier this week turned into no longer due to any virus or malware or country-sponsored cyber assault, as a substitute, it turned into the result of a simple TYPO.Amazon on Thursday admitted that an incorrectly typed command at some stage in a routine debugging of the company’s billing gadget […]