BuckHacker: a search engine that find hackable servers

by do son · February 20, 2018

A new service aimed specifically at white hat hackers has been launched and a project called Buckhacker has created a Google-like search engine that discovers businesses inadvertently by browsing servers exposed to the Internet Leaked sensitive data that allows any user to search for non-secure data stored on Amazon Amazon Web Services (AWS) server buckets.

In fact, there has been a flood of data breaches in the past 2017, with many of the world’s leading companies storing customer and business data on AWS servers without password protection, which means that anyone who knows the exact address of a bucket can associate it Content to visit.

Accenture, WWE, AA, Dow Jones, and even the U.S. National Security Agency have all experienced server configuration errors and were blamed by public opinion for not following the most basic security protocols.

Often, these discoveries require a wide search by publicly available security research groups of publicly accessible servers on the Internet. Buckhacker significantly simplifies this process by allowing users to search AWS lists by using bucket names or file names that may be relevant to the target business. The developers of the project say it is about raising awareness of security rather than helping potential hacker groups.

Although the tool is not designed to be high, it does collect the results and store the information stored in the database for other users to see. Developers in the interview explained that “the goal of this project is to raise awareness of the security buckets, many businesses now suffer due to errors in the management of the bucket. The project is still in its infancy (we are trying to repair one of them some bugs).”

The Buckhacker project was not the first such tool until tools such as AWSBucketDump had allowed users to maliciously find out to expose AWS buckets; Google users could even visit specific server addresses if they knew exactly what to search for. However, Buckhacker is noteworthy because it is probably the easiest-to-use, user-friendly tooling available to date.

Mike Xu Richter, vice president of product management at Bitglass Security, said: “As attackers have easy access to this discovery tool, ensuring that the enterprise infrastructure is not open to the public should be one of the basic principles that must be followed by enterprise IT departments.”

At the same time as the new tool was unveiled, 119,000 U.S. Federal Express customers were also found to have leaked details including home addresses, e-mail addresses, and user’s driver’s license and passport details.

Mr. Richter said the courier company was just another grizzled victim of huge amounts of wealth and deep security but falling into the trap of the same basic but grave mistake.

Amazon pointed out in November 2017 that it will introduce default encryption for all new AWS servers that could theoretically prevent the recurrence of such a leak. However, users need to apply this encryption feature manually to all existing buckets, meaning that data stored on servers unknown to the business is still under serious threat.

Researchers have already realized the existence of this new tool on the Amazon site.

However, in this time,