CSOonline

S3 shadow buckets leave AWS accounts open to compromise

Attackers can gain access to AWS accounts or sensitive data by creating in advance S3 storage buckets with predictable names that will be automatically used by various services and tools. Researchers ...
SiliconANGLE

AWS expands Amazon S3 with features to support Apache Iceberg and metadata management

Amazon Web Services Inc. announced at its re:Invent conference today significant updates to its Amazon Simple Storage Service that are designed to make S3 the first cloud object store with fully ...
Bleeping Computer

How attackers abuse S3 Bucket Namesquatting — And How to Stop Them

With the sheer amount of data and users leveraging AWS, it’s easy for misconfigurations to slip through the cracks. One commonly overlooked area is the naming of S3 buckets. AWS S3 bucket names are ...
Dark Reading

Critical AWS Vulnerabilities Allow S3 Attack Bonanza

BLACK HAT USA – Las Vegas – Thursday, Aug. 8 – Six critical vulnerabilities in Amazon Web Services (AWS) could have allowed threat actors to target organizations with remote code execution (RCE), ...
Bleeping Computer

Ransomware abuses Amazon AWS feature to encrypt S3 buckets

A new ransomware campaign encrypts Amazon S3 buckets using AWS's Server-Side Encryption with Customer Provided Keys (SSE-C) known only to the threat actor, demanding ransoms to receive the decryption ...
TechRepublic

AWS Unveils Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and S3 Vectors During NYC Summit

AWS Unveils Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and S3 Vectors During NYC Summit Your email has been sent During the keynote, there was news about updates to EventBridge and the AWS Free Tier, as well as ...
Computer Weekly

AWS adds vector functionality to S3 object storage

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced vector storage for its S3 cloud object storage – S3 Vectors – in a move it claims will reduce the cost of uploading, storing and querying vectorised data in AI ...