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Enter Your Passwordle

06.30.2022
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Corey is the Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill, where he specializes in helping companies improve their AWS bills by making them smaller and less horrifying. He also hosts the "Screaming in the Cloud" and "AWS Morning Brief" podcasts; and curates "Last Week in AWS," a weekly newsletter summarizing the latest in AWS news, blogs, and tools, sprinkled with snark and thoughtful analysis in roughly equal measure.

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Episode Summary

Last week in security news: Azure has another security issue, Sysdig dives into threats to SSH on EC2, and more!

Episode Show Notes

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  • Azure has another security issue around its Synapse offering; this one was discovered by Tenable.
  • Sysdig has a dive into the real threats to SSH on EC2.
  • Tailscale has announced the ability to support Tailscale SSH.
  • Chris Farris has a treatise on the The Philosphy of Prevention when it comes to cloud security.
  • Google Cloud CISO Phil Venables asks whether security analogies are counterproductive. 
  • A security issue of sorts was discovered around sts:GetSessionToken Role Chaining in AWS
  • The person responsible for the giant Capital One hack that took advantage of a series of small AWS misconfigurations has been convicted.
  • Rogue GitHub apps could have hijacked countless repos for a week or two earlier this year.
  • Wickr for Government achieves FedRAMP Ready designation
  • It takes an open source project like trackiam to collate IAM actions, AWS APIs, and managed policies from all over the place
  • Passwordle lets you guess commonly used passwords.

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