Viacoms Secret Cloud Keys Exposed

The entertainment giant is the latest company to misconfigure its Amazon Web Services S3 cloud storage bucket.

A misconfigured Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket recently put Viacoms keys to its cloud kingdom at risk, according to UpGuard, which made the discovery. The Viacom incident is the
latest AWS S3 misconfiguration issue
to strike a company.
The cloud leak publicly exposed Viacoms master provisioning server running Puppet, which in essence provides a master key to company servers that run its IT infrastructure, claims UpGuard. If malicious attackers got their hands on these secret cloud keys, they could launch attacks using Viacoms servers, storage and databases, the security firm warns.
Other sensitive information found within the 72 .tgz files located in Viacoms S3 bucket with the subdomain mcs-puppet included internal access credentials and critical data, notes UpGuard.
UpGuards Cyber Risk Research Director Chris Vickery discovered the misconfigured AWS S3 bucket on Aug. 30 and notified the company the following day. Viacom secured the AWS account within hours of the notification, according to Upguard.
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