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 […]

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.…

Hundreds of databases on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) are exposing personal identifiable information (PII), new findings from Mitiga, a cloud incident response company, show

Researchers have created a new community website for reporting and tracking security issues in cloud platforms and services — plus fixes for them where available.

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.…

Plus: Fox News learns to use database passwords, Autodesk patches high-severity bugs, and CISA says retire old D-Link routers In brief Google pulled a slew of Android apps with more than 46 million downloads from its Google Play Store after security researchers notified the cloud giant that the code contained some sneaky data-harvesting code.…

Researcher finds pro-Ukraine hacktivists are having an impact