amazon web services
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Company Leaves 752,00 Birth Certificate Copy Applications Publicly Exposed On Amazon Cloud Account
An online firm that helps customers obtain copies of their birth certificates from state and local authorities left some 720,000 applications on an unsecured Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud storage system, TechCrunch reported on Monday.
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Russia Blocks Millions Of Amazon And Google IPs In Bungled Attempt To Ban Telegram
The Russian government ordered the Telegram messaging app be banned last week due to its failure to turn over encryption keys to authorities. But as the app’s founder promised, Telegram is still working. Now, Russia is breaking the internet in the country by blocking millions of IP addresses in a scattershot attempt to quash the…
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How One Little Amazon Error Can Destroy The Internet
The fact that Amazon controls a vast swath of cloud computing services became dreadfully clear on Wednesday morning when a string of errors brought countless websites to their knees. This consolidation of power is, perhaps suddenly, a very big problem.