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7% of All Amazon S3 Servers' Settings Are Open, Leading to Breaches

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday September 26 2017, @06:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the left-the-door-open dept.

FakeBeldin writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday September 27 2017, @05:17AM (1 child)

    by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday September 27 2017, @05:17AM (#573671)

    It's not a home, it's a store on a street, and they left the door propped open, even if they didn't put up a sign. Curious people may wander in, uninvited and undesired, but not maliciously or forcibly, as implied by "breach".

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  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Wednesday September 27 2017, @07:18PM

    by edIII (791) on Wednesday September 27 2017, @07:18PM (#573964)

    LOL. Somewhat better. It's really difficult to create laws for this stuff precisely because it so difficult to explain with real world analogies that we can digest.

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