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Limbus News
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Limbus News is the company blog at blog.limbus-medtec.com, writing about security and programming. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a Medium post on how an empty S3 bucket can make an AWS bill explode. The only comment discusses AWS billing attacks and S3 public access, without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
For me it looks like AWS has mainly different scenarios to handle. First, unauthenticated users are a big security pain for AWS and S3 because S3 is used for everything. But S3 was not designed for "secure" public access. As a result billing attacks are possible (e.g. [1]) and will not be fixed (by design). Second, authenticated AWS users are kind of trustworthy and these are never assumed to do any DDoS stuff or si…
Comment linking /the-aws-s3-denial-of-wallet-amplification-attack-bc5a97cc041d
on “How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode”Submitted The AWS S3 Denial of Wallet Amplification Attack as a story · 183 points
HN discussionSubmitted The AWS S3 Denial of Wallet Amplification Attack as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The AWS S3 Denial of Wallet Amplification Attack as a story · 2 points
HN discussion