2.3 Billion Files Exposed Across Online File Storage Technologies

guest · May 30, 2019

Colossal 2.3 Billion Files Now Exposed Online
May 30, 2019
https://www.cbronline.com/news/files-exposed-online

Time to audit the configuration of your public facing services?
There are now a eye watering 2.3 billion files exposed online, owing to the misconfiguration of commonly used file storage technologies. That’s according to digital risk specialist Digital Shadows – a sharp rise on the number it found last year.
Ninety-eight million of those are in the UK: up from 64 million in 2018. The company described some of the misconfigurations as “inexcusable”.

San Francisco-based Digital Shadows used a proprietary file crawler to identify the number of files; which represents an increase of over 750 million since it carried out the the same study in 2018 – an annual increase of over 50 percent.

Nearly half of the files (1.071 billion) were exposed via the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol – a technology for sharing files first designed in 1983, the company said. Other misconfigured technologies including FTP services (20 percent), rsync (16 percent), and Network Attached Storage devices (3 percent).
The research team noted the SMB figure had nearly doubled year-on-year
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Files Exposed Online: New Amazon Feature Sends S3 Bucket Exposure Tumbling
One bright spot: Since Amazon introduced a new feature, “Block Public Access”, in November 2018, the overall exposure of S3 buckets has fallen dramatically, the “Too Much Information” report reveals: ” From the 16 million files we detected in October 2018 coming from S3 buckets, we are now detecting less than 2,000 files being exposed.”
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Report: Too Much Information: 2.3 Billion Files Exposed Across Online File Storage Technologies

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