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Cory Doctorow / 1:30 pm Thu, Feb 15, 2018

Fedex bought a company that stored 119,000 pieces of scanned customer IDs in a public Amazon cloud server, shut the company down, left the scans online for anyone to download

Fedex acquired a company called Bongo International in 2014; Bongo specialized in helping North American companies sell overseas and after the acquisition, Fedex renamed the company FedEx Cross-Border International. Read the rest

Cory Doctorow / 11:08 am Wed, Nov 29, 2017

US Army doxes itself, reveals $100 million NSA spy program that got flushed before it was ever used

Chris Vickery from Upguard found an Army Amazon Web Services instance with no password or encryption, containing 100GB of data on a defunct NSA program called Red Disk. Read the rest

Xeni Jardin / 12:32 pm Thu, Mar 2, 2017

That big Amazon S3 outage was caused by a typo, company admits

On Monday, many websites, news services, publishing platforms, and other internet-connected things that use Amazons AWS platform went dark. The cause can finally be revealed. Read the rest