We built a wheel that spins through your worst nightmares, SQL injections, leaked buckets, exposed keys and ends with a punchline. Here's the part that isn't a joke: hackers have a real one. It's been spinning against your company all year, and nobody's laughing.
Spin ours for fun.
We pinky promise we're one of the good ones.
S3 Bucket: Wide Open Since Obama's Second Term
Your customer database — 4.1M emails, hashed passwords, and billing addresses — has been publicly accessible since 2014. It's been indexed. Scraped. Used as a reference dataset in two academic papers on data leakage. One gave you a footnote. Lovely.
That was fake. Here's what isn't:
That was fake. But 6% of all S3 buckets are genuinely, publicly exposed. The wheel lands on someone's real data every day. The wheel only stops when you decide to check.
days hackers live rent
-free inside a breached
company before anyone
notices the smell.
average breach cost in
2024. That's your Series
A, your team, and your
sleep, gone.
before bots harvest a leaked
GitHub key. Your coffee
brews longer than your
window of safety.
of breaches trace back toa
human. A well- meaning
human. Probably on a
Friday. Probably tired.
is all our scan needs to
find what took attackers
197 days to quietly,
thoroughly exploit.
(They don't take any day off.)
👾 They're not waiting for your next sprint. They are, at this very moment, extremely online and entirely unbothered by your editorial calendar.
You built something real. You shipped fast. You hustled hard. You told your investors "security is a top priority" and you meant it, the same sincere way you meant to back up your laptop every week. Intentions are wonderful. Hackers are not sentimental.
The vulnerability wheel isn't dark satire. It's a slightly dramatised version of what our scanners find every single Tuesday. We've seen the S3 bucket named backup-FINAL-v3-USE-THIS. We've seen the admin panel on port 8080 with no authentication. We've seen the commit message that just said oops and nothing else.
We're not here to scare you. We're here because knowing is survivable. Not knowing isn't. And knowing takes three minutes and approximately ero drama.
"The lock on your front door isn't there because you live somewhere dangerous. It's there because some neighbourhoods are everywhere now and they don't knock first."
— Every penetration tester who's ever made a grown CTO quietly close a laptop
Of all S3 buckets scanned last year were publicly exposed. Not a typo. Not a rounding error. Just a Tuesday.
Year running SQL injection tops the OWASP list. It's not even hiding anymore. It has a LinkedIn profile.
Of SMBs close within 6 months of a major breach. The other 40% spend their runway on lawyers and PR firms.
Breaches caused by running a free security scan. We checked. Extensively. You're welcome.
No agents. No installs. No six-week procurement odyssey.
One field. Just the domain.
That's the entire ask. Not your childhood pet's name, not your mother's maiden name, not your LinkedIn password (please change that). Just your URL. We're scanners, not identity thieves. Different business model entirely.
We try every door, window, and suspicious vent.
Open ports. Leaked configs. Expired certs. Known CVEs. Public buckets. Exposed credentials. The full buffet of decisions made after 10pm. We look at all of it, systematically, automatically, without coffee or ego.
We tell you in actual human words.
No CVSS scores buried under seventeen acronyms. No report that requires its own glossary. Just: here's the problem, here's how bad it is, here's how to fix it. Your devs will love us. Your board will love you.
You close the laptop. You sleep.
Not because the internet got nicer. Because you stopped guessing and started knowing. Ignorance is only bliss until it's a breach notification email at 3am on a Sunday before a product launch.
🃏 The wheel results are fake. Your attack surface isn't. We checked Extensively.
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