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Hacken Jul 23, 2021
Weekly News Digest #44
Amazon S3 buckets misconfiguration left 1,000 GB of local government data exposed
The team of cybersecurity researchers from security company Wizcase identified that 1,000 GB of data and over 1.6 million files belonging to dozens of US municipalities were left exposed. All of the cities and towns that became the victims of this incident were using the same product owned by Massachusetts company PeopleGIS – mapsonline.net. The local governments across Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Connecticut use the information management software provided by this company.
Ata Hakçıl together with his team of researchers detected more than 80 misconfigured Amazon S3 buckets. These buckets were holding data ranging from residential records to job applications for government positions and business licenses. Taking into account the sensitive nature of information, many of the exposed forms contained such data as individuals’ email addresses, phone numbers, real estate tax information, etc. The number of individuals whose data were exposed was not disclosed.
Pegasus software might be used by the Modi government to spy on critics and opponents
Narendra Modi’s nationalist government has been heavily criticized for its failure to address the COVID apocalypse in India but now it seems to have faced what some are calling India’s Watergate. The very powerful surveillance tool called Pegasus made by the Israeli firm NSO and licensed only to government entities, for the last 6 years, has been likely used in India to snoop on mobile phones belonging to more than 1,000 individuals. These figures have been provided in the global ..
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