AWS Security Digest · Issue #4

AWS Security Digest

Issue #4

Monday · February 01, 2021

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Security Newsletter - Emotet and Netwalker taken down. NAT Slipstreaming 2.0. Patch your sudo and iOS.

📌 AWS Security by CloudNews

Discover, review, and remediate unintended access to Secrets Manager secrets using IAM Access Analyzer
AWS Shield Advanced now provides mitigation metrics and network traffic timelines

📌 r/netsec

Heap-based buffer overflow in Sudo (CVE-2021-3156) - obtained full root privileges on Ubuntu 20.04 (Sudo 1.8.31), Debian 10 (Sudo 1.8.27), and Fedora 33 (Sudo 1.9.2)
World’s most dangerous malware EMOTET disrupted through global action

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Sudo Security Issue (CVE-2021-3156)

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