SRE Weekly Issue #270
📖 [The CloudSecList] Issue 87
[tl;dr sec] #83 - Comparing Infra as Code Scanners, Jenkins Attack Framework
AWS Notification Message
AWS WAF adds support for log filtering
AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority is now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud - 22 updated methods
AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager Contacts - 27 new methods
AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager - 29 new methods
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service - 12 updated methods
Spring 2021 SOC 2 Type I Privacy report now available
Use EC2 Instance Connect to provide secure SSH access to EC2 instances with private IP addresses

AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager *inhales* is one of the worst launches I've seen in quite some time. I think @pagerduty can breathe a sigh of relief.
Here's my initial experience with the service, so you can judge for yourself. 1/

“AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager.”
aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/reso…



⚒️ @NahamSec thread on popular @Burp_Suite extensions
Popular:
* Logger++
* Param miner
* Auth checking: Auto repeater, Autorize
* Turbo intruder
* Asset history
* Collaborator everywhere
* Active scan++
* Backslash powered scanner
#bugbountytips

I don't use a lot of burp extensions and I'm trying to change that (again). What are some of your @Burp_Suite extensions and why?



The CFP is now open for fwd:cloudsec! fwdcloudsec.org/cfp.html
The CFP closes on July 16th, but don't wait because all talks submitted within the first month will get feedback to resubmit. We hope this especially encourages those who have not spoken at a conference before.



To those who are saying that they might have upgraded their hashing algorithms - yes, you’re right.
I am still often skeptical when I see a message like that. Especially when the site has some suspicious restrictions on which special characters you can’t use in your password



✍️ tfsec VS @code extension
Scan your Terraform code for security issues right in your IDE
H/T @owenrum
marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName…



The CDC said fully vaccinated people can use wildcards in their IAM policies because they’re privileged



Well that was fun while it lasted. Please fix your service AWS 😡. 13/13



AWS CDK folks: am I the only one who finds it far, far more challenging to define a Step Function in CDK than using YAML?



Didn't workout for one week. Spider moved in behind my weights 🏋️♀️. You win Spider it's your workout basement now. 🕷️


A favor for AWS: one way to display date and time
There are many places where a time stamp is displayed, in some places you can set to convert the time in your local time zone in other there are no options. This makes it very confusing when you are looking for something, since you never know in which format a …
SR Solutions Architect interview tomorrow!
I’ve never prepared for an interview quite like this one! I think I’ve spent 30 hrs or so preparing notes and fact checking my notes for technical errors. I’ve never been more excited and nervous in my life! Hopefully my 10 years of IT experience will pay off.
Biggest cloud security issues you see
What are the biggest cloud security issues you see when it comes to infrastructure deployments?
Is it the old "open ports"? Is it something new?
Curious here.
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