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Last Week In AWS Podcast

Corey Quinnwww.lastweekinaws.com
The latest in AWS news, sprinkled with snark. Posts about AWS come out over sixty times a day. We filter through it all to find the hidden gems, the community contributions--the stuff worth hearing about! Then we summarize it with snark and share it with you--minus the nonsense.
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Google Cloud Alters the Deal

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Mar 23, 20229 minEp. 361

The Surprise Mandoogle

Links: Links Referenced: Couchbase Capella: https://couchbase.com/screaminginthecloud couchbase.com/screaminginthecloud: https://couchbase.com/screaminginthecloud blog post: https://awsteele.com/blog/2022/02/03/aws-vpc-data-exfiltration-using-codebuild.html AutoWarp: https://orca.security/resources/blog/autowarp-microsoft-azure-automation-service-vulnerability/ “Google Announces Intent to Acquire Mandiant”: https://www.googlecloudpresscorner.com/2022-03-08-mgc password table: https://www.hivesys...

Mar 17, 20226 minEp. 359

My Mental Model of AWS Regions

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Mar 16, 20229 minEp. 358

Collecting Evidence for the Prosecution

Links: The Register : https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/28/tech_response_to_ukraine/ “WTF is Cloud Native Data Security?”: https://blog.container-solutions.com/wtf-is-cloud-native-data-security Imdsv2 wall of shame: https://github.com/SummitRoute/imdsv2_wall_of_shame/blob/main/README.md “Piercing the Cloud Armor”: https://kloudle.com/blog/piercing-the-cloud-armor-the-8kb-bypass-in-google-cloud-platform-waf Via a third-party: https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/03/amazon_alexa_speaker_vuln/ “St...

Mar 10, 20227 minEp. 356

Handling Secrets with AWS

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Mar 09, 20229 minEp. 355

Corporate Solidarity

Links: Charlie Bell in the Wall Street Journal The Register’s Roundup Melijoe.com’s award AWS Announcement Granted Transcript Corey: This is the AWS Morning Brief: Security Edition . AWS is fond of saying security is job zero. That means it’s nobody in particular’s job, which means it falls to the rest of us. Just the news you need to know, none of the fluff. Corey: Couchbase Capella Database-as-a-Service is flexible, full-featured, and fully managed with built-in access via key-value, SQL, and ...

Mar 03, 20225 minEp. 353

Status Paging You

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Mar 02, 202212 minEp. 352

Security Developer Experience and Security

Links: “Developer Experience is Security”: https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2022/02/17/devex-is-security/ Cleansing their network of ransomware: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/33283115/san-francisco-49ers-network-hit-gang-ransomware-attack-team-notifies-law-enforcement “Control access to Amazon Elastic Container Service resources by using ABAC policies”: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/control-access-to-amazon-elastic-container-service-resources-by-using-abac-policies/ “Introducing s2n-q...

Feb 24, 20225 minEp. 350

The Trials and Travails of AWS SSO

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Feb 23, 20228 minEp. 349

Of CORS It Gets Better

Links Referenced: CanaryTokens: https://www.canarytokens.org/ Found a solid way to avoid that sneaky method: https://blog.thinkst.com/2022/02/a-safety-net-for-aws-canarytokens.html?m=1 The folks at Orca found a vulnerability around OCI’s handling of Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) Metadata: https://orca.security/resources/blog/Oracle-server-side-request-forgery-ssrf-attack-metadata/ S3 Bucket Negligence Award: https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/08/ottawa-trucker-freedom-convoy-exposed-donation/ O...

Feb 17, 20226 minEp. 347

Are AWS Account IDs Sensitive Information?

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Feb 16, 20226 minEp. 346

VPC Data Exfiltration Via CodeBuild

Links: CodeBuild to exfiltrate data from an AWS VPC: https://awsteele.com/blog/2022/02/03/aws-vpc-data-exfiltration-using-codebuild.html Thousands of Open Databases: https://InfoSecwriteups.com/how-i-discovered-thousands-of-open-databases-on-aws-764729aa7f32 “Why do Amazon S3 Data Breaches Keep Happening?”: https://markn.ca/2022/why-do-amazon-s3-data-breaches-keep-happening/ You’re going to be placed on a public list of shame: https://Twitter.com/0xdabbad00/status/1489305680490106880?s=12 How to...

Feb 10, 20227 minEp. 344

GuardDuty for EKS and Why Security Should Be Free

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Feb 09, 202210 minEp. 343

Privacy Means Your Data Is Private to You and Also Google

Links: Three vulnerabilities: https://blog.wiz.io/black-hat-2021-aws-cross-account-vulnerabilities-how-isolated-is-your-cloud-environment/ Embarrassingly long time: https://Twitter.com/christophetd/status/1486610249045925890 “Companies Leave Vast Amounts of Sensitive Data Unprotected”: https://www.propublica.org/article/identity-theft-surged-during-the-pandemic-heres-where-a-lot-of-the-stolen-data-came-from?token=pIt-Qx8lrKMcPei_lM3rFDQpHXkkcxXQ Google Drive started mistakenly flagging files as ...

Feb 03, 20227 minEp. 341

Going Out to Play with the CDK

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Feb 02, 202211 minEp. 340

An SSH Key Request

Links: GitHub organizations: https://alsmola.medium.com/securing-github-organizations-9c33c850638 CloudTrail would spew other accounts’ credentials your way: https://onecloudplease.com/blog/security-september-cataclysms-in-the-cloud-formations Spot on: https://research.nccgroup.com/2022/01/13/10-real-world-stories-of-how-weve-compromised-ci-cd-pipelines/ Some excellent points: https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/enterprises-are-sailing-into-a-perfect-storm-of-cloud-risk “Amazon EC2 customers can n...

Jan 27, 20225 minEp. 338

ClickOps

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Jan 26, 20227 minEp. 337

The Gruntled Developer

Links: S3 Bucket Negligence Award: http://saharareporters.com/2022/01/10/exclusive-hacker-breaks-nimc-server-steals-over-three-million-national-identity-numbers Anyone in a VPC, any VPC, anywhere: https://Twitter.com/santosh_ankr/status/1481387630973493251 A disgruntled developer corrupts their own NPM libs ‘colors’ and ‘faker’, breaking thousands of apps: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dev-corrupts-npm-libs-colors-and-faker-breaking-thousands-of-apps/ “Top ten security best prac...

Jan 20, 20226 minEp. 335

Orca Security, AWS, and the Killer Whale of a Problem

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Jan 19, 202213 minEp. 334

New Consolation

AWS Morning Brief for the week of January 17, 2021 with Corey Quinn.

Jan 17, 20227 minEp. 333

CISOs Should Ideally Stay Out of Prison

Links: Comes with a cryptominer: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/01/norton-360-now-comes-with-a-cryptominer/ You could be federally charged with wire fraud for paying off a security researcher: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-uber-chief-security-officer-face-wire-fraud-charges-0 A source code leak of its Azure App Service: https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/24/azure_app_service_not_legit_source_code_leak/ “Comprehensive Cyber Security Framework for Primary (Urban) Cooperative Banks...

Jan 13, 20226 minEp. 332
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