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Pierluigi Paganini October 25, 2019

DDoS Attack on Amazon Web Services caused intermittently outage

This week Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a major distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that made it unavailable for some customers. This week, threat actors launched a massive DDoS attack against Amazon Web Services (AWS) causing the inability of some customers to access their AWS S3 buckets. Users were intermittently unable to access online services relying […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2019

Data belonging to Instagram influencers and celebrities exposed online

A new data leak made the headlines, a database containing the contact information of millions of Instagram influencers, celebrities and brand accounts has been found online. The news was first reported by the TechCrunch website, a database was left unprotected on an AWS bucket, anyone was able to access it without authentication. The unprotected database was discovered […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2018

Expert discovered RoboCent AWS S3 bucket containing US voters’ records exposed online

A security researcher has discovered that the US political robocall firm RoboCent exposed personal details of hundreds of thousands of US voters. The US political robocall firm RoboCent exposed personal details of hundreds of thousands of US voters. The researcher Bob Diachenko from Kromtech Security discovered the company database exposed online. The expert was using the online service GrayhatWarfare that could be […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 18, 2018

Unsecured AWS S3 bucket managed by Walmart jewelry partner exposes data of 1.3M customers

An unsecured Amazon S3 bucket, managed by a Walmart jewelry partner MBM Company Inc, left personal and contact information of 1.3 million customers exposed to the public internet. A new case of an Amazon S3 bucket left open online, this time personal data belonging to 1.3 million customers of Walmart jewelry partner MBM Company have been […]

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DDoS Attack on Amazon Web Services caused intermittently outage

Data belonging to Instagram influencers and celebrities exposed online

Expert discovered RoboCent AWS S3 bucket containing US voters’ records exposed online

Unsecured AWS S3 bucket managed by Walmart jewelry partner exposes data of 1.3M customers

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