Sam Cox, CTO of the security company ``Tracebit,'' has disclosed a method to find out account IDs from bucket names in S3, an AWS storage service, regardless of whether they are public or private. How ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. When an IAM user logs in to the AWS Management Console, a 12-digit account ID is required to ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is urging its open-source Cloud Development Kit (CDK) users to apply fixes now available for a flaw that, under certain circumstances, can allow complete account takeover.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has fixed a security flaw in its Cloud Development Kit (CDK) which could have allowed threat actors to fully take over people’s accounts. The AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) ...

Attackers can gain access to AWS accounts or sensitive data by creating in advance S3 storage buckets with predictable names that will be automatically used by various services and tools. Researchers ...

Amazon has long recommended that you use your AWS root account as seldom as possible, using instead an IAM account. The main reason for this recommendation is of course, that the root account is ...