Infosec News – March 21

An article about package manager typo-squatting that I had not known about. An attacker names their malicious package very similar to something that already exists and uploads it to a package manager, hoping that a developer will download and use it instead of the real thing. https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities—threats/beware-the-package-typosquatting-supply-chain-attack/a/d-id/1340383

Covid-19 testing service exposed Amazon S3 buckets that contained PII, including passport scans: https://www.hackread.com/us-covid-19-testing-service-exposes-patients-data/.
We briefly mentioned exposed Amazon S3 buckets in the last news brief.

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Mark Kerzner is the co-founder of Elephantscale. He is a Trainer, Author(AI, Machine Learning, Spark, Hadoop, NoSQL, Blockchain)

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