Tag: Viacom

  • Viacom cloud config goof exposed Paramount Pictures, Comedy Central, MTV, and more

    Carelessness is believed to have exposed access credentials and other critical information assets owned by media giant Viacom Inc, leaving them viewable by anyone with an internet connection. UpGuard explains that one of its researchers discovered the exposed data on August 30th: Read full news article on Graham Cluley  

  • Viacom exposes crown jewels to world+dog in AWS S3 bucket blunder

    Updated Media monster Viacom has been caught with its security trousers down. Researchers found a wide-open, public-facing misconfigured AWS S3 bucket containing pretty much everything a hacker would need to take down the company’s IT systems. Read full news article on The Register  

  • Viacom left master keys exposed on a public AWS server

    The American media giant Viacom left 1 gigabyte of sensitive files publicly exposed, according to researchers from the cybersecurity firm UpGuard. It’s the latest in a long string of incidents in which a wide spectrum of companies have found out that moving to cloud computing like Amazon Web Services can come with cybersecurity pitfalls resulting from misconfiguration mistakes.…

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