Security Newsletter - Colonial pipeline news continued. Executive order on cybersecurity. FragAttacks Wifi vulnerabilities. • 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 <a href="https://twitter.com/pagerduty" target="_blank">@pagerduty</a> can breathe a sigh of relief. Here's my initial experience with the service, so you can judge for yourself. 1/ • ⚒️ <a href="https://twitter.com/NahamSec" target="_blank">@NahamSec</a> thread on popular <a href="https://twitter.com/Burp_Suite" target="_blank">@Burp_Suite</a> extensions Popular: * Logger++ * Param miner * Auth checking: Auto repeater, Autorize * Turbo intruder * Asset history * Collaborator everywhere * Active scan++ * Backslash powered scanner <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/bugbountytips" target="_blank">#bugbountytips</a> • The CFP is now open for fwd:cloudsec! <a href="https://t.co/PPhMKQSBzK" target="_blank">fwdcloudsec.org/cfp.html</a> 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 <a href="https://twitter.com/code" target="_blank">@code</a> extension Scan your Terraform code for security issues right in your IDE H/T <a href="https://twitter.com/owenrum" target="_blank">@owenrum</a> <a href="https://t.co/7lPPXXGq7Q" target="_blank">marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName…</a> • 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 • Pickles is officially a unicorn! 🦄🦄🦄 • 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. 🕷️ • Why you should never work for Amazon itself: Some Amazon managers say they 'hire to fire' people just to meet the internal turnover goal every year • A favor for AWS: one way to display date and time • SR Solutions Architect interview tomorrow! • Introducing Incident Manager from AWS Systems Manager • AWS Local Zones Are Now Open in Boston, Miami, and Houston • Building your own evil HID injector USB cable • Send My: Arbitrary data transmission via Apple's Find My network • Biggest cloud security issues you see • AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud: Comparing Cloud Platforms - Security Boulevard • AWS Bombing Plot Puts Renewed Focus on Data Center Physical Security - Data Center Knowledge • AWS configuration issues lead to exposure of 5 million records SC Magazine - SC Magazine
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Monday May, 2021

AWS WAF adds support for log filtering

May 13
AWS WAF now supports log filtering, enabling you to specify which web requests are logged and which requests are discarded from log after the inspection. You can use log filtering to keep only the information you want to analyze. Log filtering can also help you save on log delivery and …

AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority is now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region

May 11
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) region. This regional expansion extends the availability of ACM Private CA across the globe, increasing the number of regions to 22. The Osaka region only supports CAs with the private key stored in a …

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud - 22 updated methods

May 12
High Memory virtual instances are powered by Intel Sky Lake CPUs and offer up to 12TB of memory.

AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager Contacts - 27 new methods

May 11
AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager enables faster resolution of critical application availability and performance issues, management of contacts and post incident analysis

AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager - 29 new methods

May 11
AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager enables faster resolution of critical application availability and performance issues, management of contacts and post-incident analysis

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service - 12 updated methods

May 10
This release updates create-nodegroup and update-nodegroup-config APIs for adding/updating taints on managed nodegroups.

Spring 2021 SOC 2 Type I Privacy report now available

Ninad NaikMay 17
Your privacy considerations are at the core of our compliance work at Amazon Web Services, and we are focused on the protection of your content while using AWS. Our Spring 2021 SOC 2 Type I Privacy report is now available to demonstrate our privacy compliance commitment to you. The Spring …

Use EC2 Instance Connect to provide secure SSH access to EC2 instances with private IP addresses

Jason NichollsMay 13
In this post, I show you how to use Amazon EC2 Instance Connect to use Secure Shell (SSH) to securely access your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances running on private subnets within an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). EC2 Instance Connect provides a simple and secure way …
iann0036
Ian Mckay @iann0036

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/

QuinnyPig
Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig

“AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager.”

aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/reso…

27May 11 · 10:01 AM
clintgibler
Clint Gibler @clintgibler

⚒️ @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

NahamSec
Ben Sadeghipour @NahamSec

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?

10May 11 · 7:00 PM
fwdcloudsec
fwd:cloudsec @fwdcloudsec

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.

22May 17 · 12:50 AM
kmcquade3
Kinnaird McQuade💥☁️ @kmcquade3

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

3May 10 · 5:26 PM
clintgibler
Clint Gibler @clintgibler

✍️ tfsec VS @code extension

Scan your Terraform code for security issues right in your IDE

H/T @owenrum

marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName…

13May 12 · 12:00 AM
kmcquade3
Kinnaird McQuade💥☁️ @kmcquade3

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

5May 14 · 4:33 PM
iann0036
Ian Mckay @iann0036

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

0May 11 · 10:10 AM
bjohnso5y
Brigid Johnson @bjohnso5y

Pickles is officially a unicorn! 🦄🦄🦄

0May 16 · 1:14 AM
__steele
Aidan W Steele @__steele

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?

1May 15 · 1:30 AM
bjohnso5y
Brigid Johnson @bjohnso5y

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

0May 15 · 12:27 AM

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.