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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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The Aurora Serverless Road Not Taken

Want to give your ears a break and read this as an article? You’re looking for this link. https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/the-aurora-serverless-road-not-taken/ Never miss an episode Join the Last Week in AWS newsletter Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Help the show Leave a review Share your feedback Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts What's Corey up to? Follow Corey on Twitter (@quinnypig) See our recent work at the Duckbill Group Apply to work with Corey and the Duckbill Group ...

Jun 01, 20228 minEp. 391

Security Model Citizen Development

Links: Google Cloud Build deep dive Andrea Brancaleoni found an ELB header security issue An article on You Can't Opt Out of Citizen Development DOJ Announces It Won’t Prosecute White Hat Security Researchers Choosing the right certificate revocation method in ACM Private CA a somewhat... controversial AWS Security Maturity Model AWS API calls that return credentials on GitHub...

May 26, 20225 minEp. 389

An AWS Free Tier Bill Shock: Your Next Steps

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May 25, 202210 minEp. 388

F5 Exploit the Exact Opposite of Refreshing

Links: "Hacking the Cloud" is a community-built encyclopedia npm dependency confusion attack . Windows Event Logs F5 appliance (software or hardware) full remote code execution with privileged access Wiz has a blog post up about securing AWS Lambda function URLs Build a strong identity foundation that uses your existing on-premises Active Directory How to use new Amazon GuardDuty EKS Protection findings Poro (an open source project) scans for publicly accessible assets in your AWS environment...

May 19, 20226 minEp. 386

Fixing the AWS Free Tier is No Longer Optional

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May 18, 20228 minEp. 385

Amazon Data Fencing

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 16, 2022 with Corey Quinn.

May 16, 20225 minEp. 384

Suddenly Nobody Wants to Build Heroku

Links: S3 Bucket Negligence Award Mandoogle on how AWS's instance metadata service can be abused by attackers Heroku apparently had its entire database breached last week Wiz Research discovered a new vulnerability in Azure’s PostgreSQL Flexible Server service. AWS deleted packages they'd pushed to public repositories A guide to Cloud Security Orienteering...

May 12, 20226 minEp. 383

AWS's Deprecation Policy Is Like a Platypus

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May 11, 202210 minEp. 382

AWS WindWanker

AWS Morning Brief for the week of May 9, 2022 with Corey Quinn.

May 09, 20227 minEp. 381

Serverlessly Get Your CloudGoat

Links: SELinux is unmanageable; just turn it off if it gets in your way AWS welcomes new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework How to control access to AWS resources based on AWS account, OU, or organization AWS has an article that explains what the confused deputy problem The CloudGoat pentest training tool now supports Lambda...

May 05, 20226 minEp. 380

How to Win in Cloud

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May 04, 202210 minEp. 379

AWS's Open Source Problem

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Apr 27, 20228 minEp. 376

gimme-aws-creds, Possibly Okta's AWS Creds

Corey’s livetweet: https://twitter.com/quinnypig Eric Hammond’s old article: https://alestic.com/2014/09/aws-root-password/ Lightspin found a vulnerability: https://blog.lightspin.io/aws-rds-critical-security-vulnerability Expel’s incident report: https://expel.com/blog/incident-report-from-cli-to-console-chasing-an-attacker-in-aws/ Rhino Security Labs found a CVE in the AWS VPN Client: https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/aws/cve-2022-25165-aws-vpn-client/ DarkReading’s profile of AJ Yawn: https://www...

Apr 21, 20226 minEp. 374

Shitposting as a Learning Style

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Apr 20, 20228 minEp. 373

Denonia Denials

Links: CashMama gets the S3 Bucket Negligence Award MailChimp’s cryptocurrency clients' mailing-list info stolen Denonia, the first Lambda-specific malware AWS IAM Access Analyzer...

Apr 14, 20226 minEp. 371

Taking AWS Account Logins For Granted

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Apr 13, 20229 minEp. 370

Requiem for a Weasel

AWS Morning Brief for the week of April 11, 2022 with Corey Quinn.

Apr 11, 20228 minEp. 369

Okta and Ubiquiti Duel For Negative Attention

Links Referenced: Okta’s CEO: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-04/okta-ceo-says-breach-is-big-deal-aims-to-restore-trust taken a job as a Distinguished Engineer VP at AWS: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6914280317675614208/ Ubiquiti has sued Brian Krebs for defamation: https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/30/ubiquiti_brian_krebs/ “Best practices: Securing your Amazon Location Service resources”: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/best-practices-securing-you...

Apr 07, 20225 minEp. 368

Ubiquiti Teaches AWS Security and Crisis Comms Via Counterexample

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Apr 06, 202215 minEp. 367

The Perils of Bad Corporate Comms

Links: Their investigation of the January 2022 Okta compromise: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-investigation-of-the-january-2022-okta-compromise/ You know it’s a legit AWS email because the instructions are very bad: https://Twitter.com/0xdabbad00/status/1506258309715673089 sabotaged their own package: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/big-sabotage-famous-npm-package-deletes-files-to-protest-ukraine-war/ “AWS IAM Demystified”: https://www.daan.fyi/writings/iam from a third-p...

Mar 31, 20227 minEp. 365

S3 Is Not a Backup

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Mar 30, 20228 minEp. 364

Is Okta Gone?

Links Referenced: quietly updated the re:Inforce site: https://reinforce.awsevents.com remains disturbingly murky: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/22/22990637/okta-breach-single-sign-on-lapsus-hacker-group far greater detail: https://kloudle.com/blog/aws-rds-does-not-force-clients-to-connect-using-a-secure-transport-layer AWS Lambda announces support for PrincipalOrgID in resource-based policies: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/03/aws-lambda-principalorgid-resource-policies/ Auto...

Mar 24, 20225 minEp. 362
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