Secure your storage: Best practices to prevent dangling bucket takeovers
Storage buckets are where your data lives in the cloud. Much like digital real estate, these buckets are your own plot of land on the internet. When you move away and no longer need a specific bucket, someone else can reuse the plot of land it refers to — if the old address is still accessible to the public. This is the core idea behind a dangling bucket attack. It happens when you delete a storage bucket, but references to it still exist in your application code, mobile apps, and public documentation. An attacker can then simply claim the same [...]