New open-source tool scans public AWS S3 buckets for secrets

From bleepingcomputer.com

Hand sifting through data

A new open-source ‘S3crets Scanner’ scanner allows researchers and red-teamers to search for ‘secrets’ mistakenly stored in publicly exposed or company’s Amazon AWS S3 storage buckets.

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a cloud storage service commonly used by companies to store software, services, and data in containers known as buckets.

Unfortunately, companies sometimes fail to properly secure their S3 buckets and thus publicly expose stored data to the Internet. 

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