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Identity Documents Exposed FedEx

Identity Documents Exposed in FedEx-Owned Amazon S3 Bucket

| | Amazon S3, Department of Energy, electrical grid, Fedex, storage bucket
More than 119,000 scanned identity documents, including passports and drivers’ licenses, belonging to people from the United States and abroad were exposed in an insecure Amazon S3 storage bucket. The storage bucket ...
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Apple Fixes MacOS High Sierra Root Access Vulnerability

Apple Fixes MacOS High Sierra Root Access Vulnerability

| | Amazon S3, Apple, authentication bypass, blank password, cloud leak, credential validation failure, Data leak, INSCOM, macOS High Sierra, misconfiguration, nsa, Red Disk, root access, root password, storage bucket, third-party vendor, virtual appliance, vulnerability
Apple has released an emergency fix for an embarrassing vulnerability that allowed people to access the highest privileges account on Mac computers without a password. The vulnerability was disclosed by a user ...
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Insecure Storage Buckets Expose 1.8 Billion Online Posts Scraped for U.S. Military

| | Amazon S3, CENTCOM, Data leak, insecure configuration, intelligence gathering, military, misconfiguration, PACOM, permission control, public access, storage bucket, VendorX
A Pentagon contractor left three storage buckets publicly accessible on Amazon’s S3 service, exposing more than 1.8 billion online posts collected since 2009. The messages, posted by people from around the world, ...