aws
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People Can’t Vacuum Or Use Their Doorbell Because Amazon’s Cloud Servers Are Down
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is having problems. And unfortunately for anyone who owned a vacuum or doorbell that relied on AWS, a lot of the so-called ‘smart’ objects are no longer functional. AWS is the world’s biggest cloud hosting software. In just over a decade, Amazon’s product has essentially become the backbone of the internet.…
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Amazon Engineer Leaked Private Encryption Keys. Outside Analysts Discovered Them In Minutes
An Amazon Web Services (AWS) engineer last week inadvertently made public almost a gigabyte’s worth of sensitive data, including their own personal documents as well as passwords and cryptographic keys to various AWS environments.
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Viacom Leak May Have Exposed Hundreds Of Digital Properties – Paramount Pictures, Comedy Central, MTV, And More
Photo: Getty An Amazon server containing roughly a gigabyte’s worth of credentials and configuration files belonging to behemoth media conglomerate Viacom were discovered online and unsecured, according to UpGuard, a California-based “cyber resiliency” firm. A security researcher working for the company discovered the server flapping in the wind last month — without so much as…
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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.