Bleeping Computer reports that researchers looked into the settings of Amazon S3 servers... and found that the default setting is open (configured to allow public access),
This means that anyone with a link to the S3 server could access, view, or download its content.
Sure, you still need to have the unique link... but there's stuff on Github that enables you to "enumerate Amazon S3 buckets" - i.e., get at the secret links. So yeah....
According to statistics by security firm Skyhigh Networks, 7% of all S3 buckets have unrestricted public access, and 35% are unencrypted, meaning this is an endemic problem of the entire Amazon S3 ecosystem.
Oops.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @08:51PM
Combine server-running amateur deployers, a don't care about doing it right attitude, cheap service with no pressure to clean up and improve, and effective absolution from society ("those pesky computers!"), and you have yourself a data breach about to happen.