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According to digital forensics specialists, Amazon Web Services (AWS), the technology giant’s cloud computing services division, has been the victim of a sustained denial of service (DoS) attack. Apparently, the threat actors kept the attack for more than eight hours. The attack affected the company’s DNS Router 53 service, although many other outages were reported […]
Network security specialists report that Malindo Air, a subsidiary of Lion Air Group, a low-cost Indonesian airline, suffered a data breach that has compromised the information of thousands of passengers. The compromised information was even detected in multiple information-sharing forums for more than a month. Compromised records include phone numbers, passport details, and information about […]
The authors of the book ‘Learn ethical hacking‘ narrate an unlikely story. A company fired one of its IT employees after only one month of hiring him and, in retaliation, the employee stole the login details of one of his former co-workers, entered one of the company’s Amazon Web Services accounts and disabled 23 servers. […]
Because of a configuration error in Amazon Web Services, the company exposed highly sensitive information According to network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security, Dow Jones has become the most recent victim of confidential information exposure due to configuration errors of its cloud storage service. According to reports, a […]
Another AWS Bucket exposed to the public. This time the AWS Bucket belonged to Birst. A cyber security team have discovered a massive trove of data exposed due to an unprotected Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket. The database belonged to Birst, a Cloud Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics firm. The exposed database contained 50.4 […]