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Episode569

Overscoped Role? No, It’s the Children Who Are Wrong

09.14.2023
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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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Overscoped Role? No, It's the Children Who Are Wrong

Episode Show Notes

Last week in security news: Corey reported an over-scoped role to AWS security, The bad LastPass breach got even worse, How to enforce DNS name constraints in AWS Private CA, and more!

Links:

  • I reported an over-scoped role to AWS security; the response from the SageMaker Canvas team was that it's working as intended.
  • The bad LastPass breach that continues to get worse once again somehow got worse.
  • Microsoft has published a rather thorough postmortem about how their signing key was leaked.
  • A security newsletter features a scam that I reported via Twitter.
  • Google has gone from paragon of security to apparently now sharing aspects of your browsing history with websites in Chrome,
  • Establishing a data perimeter on AWS: Allow access to company data only from expected networks 
  • How to enforce DNS name constraints in AWS Private CA 
  • Tool of the week: ThreatMapper hunts for threats in your production platforms, and ranks these threats based on their risk-of-exploit.

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