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‘BuckHacker’ Search Engine Lets You Easily Dig Through Exposed Amazon Servers

Posted on February 16, 2018 by Dissent

Joseph Cox reports:

Contractors, governments, and telecom giants have all previously left data on exposed Amazon Web Services (AWS) servers, meaning anyone can access them without a username or password. Now, a search engine makes combing through leaky AWS datasets that much easier. Think of it as a barebones Google, but for info that the owners may have mistakenly published to the world.

Read more on Motherboard.


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