Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

19.6 Billion files are exposed in misconfigured cloud buckets, including 685K credential files and nearly 1M database dumps. There’s a comfortable myth most people carry around: that the data they hand to companies is locked somewhere safe. Researchers at Mysterium VPN just ran the numbers, and the numbers disagree. Across 535,480 publicly listable cloud storage […]

StrongDM, which injects ephemeral, real-time credentials into developer workflows, will enable Delinea to offer privilege access management across cloud, SaaS, Kubernetes, and database environments.

Warning: Poorly configured Google Cloud databases spill billing info, plaintext credentials At least 900 websites built with Google's Firebase, a cloud database, have been misconfigured, leaving credentials, personal info, and other sensitive data inadvertently exposed to the public internet, according to security researchers.…

Heroku has now revealed that the stolen GitHub integration OAuth tokens from last month further led to the compromise of an internal customer database. The Salesforce-owned cloud platform acknowledged the same compromised token was used by attackers to exfiltrate customers' hashed and salted passwords from "a database." [...]

Lightspin threat researchers discovered the bug, which AWS fixed A local file read vulnerability in Amazon's Relational Database Service (RDS) could be exploited to allow an attacker to gain access to internal AWS credentials, the cloud behemoth has confirmed.…