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title: "Twilio’s Insecure Text Message Issue"
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type: "podcast"
slug: "twilio-s-insecure-text-message-issue"
published_at: "2022-08-11T10:00:00+00:00"
modified_at: "2026-05-17T00:04:48+00:00"
url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/twilio-s-insecure-text-message-issue/"
markdown_url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/twilio-s-insecure-text-message-issue.md"
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About the Author 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.

[https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-morning-brief/id1466344305](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-morning-brief/id1466344305)

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## Episode Summary

Last week in security news: Twilio's disclosure of an Employee and Customer Account Compromise, an update of AWS Security Reference Architecture, and more!

## Episode Show Notes & Transcript

**Links:**

- [Twilio's disclosure of an Employee and Customer Account Compromise](https://www.twilio.com/blog/august-2022-social-engineering-attack) .
- [Update of AWS Security Reference Architecture is now available](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/update-of-aws-security-reference-architecture-is-now-available/)
- As the linked tweet [says](https://twitter.com/barney_parker/status/1553535933357645824?s=12&t=wy0QzcYUf6SIetMxgN9ung) : "If you check out the AWS docs on IAM policy parsing order there is a flowchart that shows you can get an Allow outcome before the boundary policy is evaluated."
- [IAM-Deescalate:](https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/iam-deescalate/) is an open source tool to help users reduce the risk of privilege escalation.

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