With an increasing number of enterprises using public and hybrid cloud deployments, and while more sensitive data is stored in cloud service provider (CSP) environments, organizations are aggressively ...

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 ...

Amazon Web Services is recommending its customers to deploy additional security measures to secure S3 buckets following reports of ransomware attacks targeting the platform. In an blog post, Amazon ...

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With the accelerated shift to the cloud, companies are tasked with securing troves of data to maintain compliance, reputation and meet business needs. It’s up to developers to build the necessary ...

The cloud has simplified accessing compute and storage resources, making life a lot easier for application developers, IT administrators and company employees. However, when end users fail to properly ...

Many companies are anxious to take advantage of big data cloud services to crunch vast amounts of data for analysis. However, the lack of inherent data security can be a deal-breaker. Now there’s a ...

AWS S3 bucket names are global with predictable names that can be exploited in "S3 bucket namesquatting" attacks to access or hijack S3 buckets. In this article, Varonis explains how these attacks ...

Companies continue to migrate to cloud-hosted infrastructure, applications, microservices and backend services worldwide. Of course, cloud storage is a big part of the migration equation due to its ...

Attacks encrypting Amazon Web Services S3 bucket data through server-side encryption with customer-provided keys have been launched by the newly-emergent threat actor Codefinger against a pair of AWS ...

Gazzang, a provider of data security solutions, has released Gazzang CloudEncrypt, offering data encryption and key management at every stage of the Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) data lifecycle. The ...