Covers the principles, threats, and strategies involved in securing cloud computing environments. Articles explore shared responsibility models, cloud-native security tools, encryption practices, and how organizations can protect workloads across public, private, and hybrid cloud infrastructures.
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The Breach That Started With a Single Misconfigured S3 Bucket In 2023, Toyota disclosed that the vehicle data of 2.15 million customers had been publicly accessible for over a decade — because a cloud database was set to public instead of private. No sophisticated threat actor. No zero-day exploit. Just
In April 2022, researchers at Wiz discovered that Microsoft Azure's PostgreSQL Flexible Server had vulnerabilities allowing cross-account database access. They called it ExtraReplica, and it affected thousands of Azure databases. This wasn't a theoretical exercise — it was a real demonstration that security in cloud computing remains
In April 2021, a misconfigured cloud storage bucket at a major Android app developer exposed the personal data of over 100 million users. Names, emails, passwords, chat messages — all sitting in plain view because someone forgot to toggle a single setting. This wasn't an exotic zero-day exploit. It
The Misconfiguration That Exposed 100 Million Records Updated for 2026 In 2019, a former Amazon Web Services employee exploited a misconfigured web application firewall to steal personal data from over 100 million Capital One customers and applicants. The breach cost Capital One more than $270 million in settlements and remediation.
