🔷 Yet Another Azure VM Persistence Using Bastion Shareable Links

These links have no additional authentication and are publicly accessible.

https://blog.karims.cloud/2022/11/26/yet-another-azure-vm-persistence.html

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🔶 Amazon Security Lake

A purpose-built service that automatically centralizes an organization's security data from cloud and on-premises sources into a purpose-built data lake stored in your account.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/aws/preview-amazon-security-lake-a-purpose-built-customer-owned-data-lake-service

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🔷 Low-latency fraud detection with Cloud Bigtable

Explore the end to end flow of detecting fraudulent payments with a low-latency and horizontally scalable system powered by tools like Bigtable.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/fraud-detection-with-cloud-bigtable

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🔶 Protect Sensitive Data with Amazon CloudWatch Logs

A new set of capabilities for Amazon CloudWatch Logs that leverage pattern matching and machine learning (ML) to detect and protect sensitive log data in transit.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/aws/protect-sensitive-data-with-amazon-cloudwatch-logs

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🔷 Explore the new Learn Kubernetes with Google website

The new website Learn Kubernetes with Google brings together under one roof the guidance of Kubernetes experts, both from Google and across the industry, to communicate the latest trends in building your Kubernetes infrastructure.

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/11/explore-new-learn-kubernetes-with-google-website.html

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🔶 Recap of AWS re:Invent 2022: An Honest Review

Properly assess whether all those announcements should mean anything to you; here's the ultimate AWS re:Invent 2022 recap you were looking for.

https://www.resmo.com/blog/aws-reinvent-2022-recap

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🔷 Palantir's FIDO2 secure implementation rollout

The second in a series by Palantir InfoSec on their journey enforcing FIDO2 authentication via hardware authenticators (YubiKeys) across all of Palantir.

https://blog.palantir.com/technical-controls-rollout-and-edge-cases-passwordless-authentication-series-2-c9b6dcd349e

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🔶🔴 Compromised Cloud Compute Credentials: Case Studies From the Wild

A walk-through of attacks in the wild that abuse stolen cloud compute credentials in cloud environments.

https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/compromised-cloud-compute-credentials

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🔶🔷🔴 Visualizing Multi Cloud IAM Concepts

Some diagrams to understand key AWS, Azure and GCP IAM concepts and terminology.

https://julian-wieg.medium.com/visualizing-multi-cloud-iam-concepts-63525967c0a7

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🔴 ine-labs/GCPGoat

A vulnerable by design infrastructure on GCP featuring the latest released OWASP Top 10 web application security risks (2021) and other misconfiguration based on services such as IAM, Storage Bucket, Cloud Functions and Compute Engine.

https://github.com/ine-labs/GCPGoat

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🔶 AWS ECR Public Vulnerability

A vulnerability that allowed external actors to delete, update, and create ECR Public images, layers, and tags in registries and repositories that belong to other AWS Accounts, by abusing undocumented internal ECR Public API actions.

https://blog.lightspin.io/aws-ecr-public-vulnerability

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🔶 Redshift Security: Attack Surface Explained

Understand how an attacker can leverage Redshift default permissions to perform lateral movement and privilege escalation.

https://www.dig.security/post/redshift-security-attack-surface-explained

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🔶 Unusual Cache Poisoning between Akamai and S3 buckets

A post presenting an unusual way of Cache Poisoning which happens between Akamai and Amazon S3 Buckets.

https://spyclub.tech/2022/12/14/unusual-cache-poisoning-akamai-s3

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🔶 How DoorDash Secures Data Transfer Between Cloud and On-Premise Data Centers

How DoorDash built a secure data transfer to a new payment processing vendor by establishing a private network link using AWS Direct Connect.

https://doordash.engineering/2022/11/29/how-doordash-secures-data-transfer-between-cloud-and-on-premise-data-centers

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🔶🔷🔴 Detecting Cloud Account Takeover Attacks

The Splunk Threat Research Team shares a closer look at the telemetry available in Azure, AWS and GCP and the options teams have to ingest this data into Splunk.

https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/security/detecting-cloud-account-takeover-attacks-threat-research-release-october-2022.html

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🔴 Google Cloud infrastructure reliability guide

Introduces the building blocks of reliability in Google Cloud, and provides architectural recommendations to design reliable infrastructure for your cloud workloads.

https://cloud.google.com/architecture/infra-reliability-guide

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🔶 Configuration driven dynamic multi-account CI/CD solution on AWS

Post presenting a configuration driven dynamic CI/CD solution per repository.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/devops/configuration-driven-dynamic-multi-account-ci-cd-solution-on-aws

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🔴 How we validated the security controls of our new Confidential Space

A whitepaper demonstrating the level of security review and threat modelling any Google product goes through.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/how-to-build-a-secure-confidential-space

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🔶 Prepare for consolidated controls view and consolidated control findings in AWS Security Hub

Security Hub is aiming to release two new features in the first quarter of 2023 that will decouple controls from standards and streamline how you view and receive control findings.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/prepare-for-consolidated-controls-view-and-consolidated-control-findings-in-aws-security-hub

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🔶 Advanced Notice: Amazon S3 will automatically enable S3 Block Public Access and disable access control lists for all new buckets starting in April 2023

Starting in April 2023, S3 will introduce two new default bucket security settings by automatically enabling S3 Block Public Access and disabling S3 access control lists (ACLs) for all new S3 buckets. There is no change for existing buckets.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/about-aws/whats-new/2022/12/amazon-s3-automatically-enable-block-public-access-disable-access-control-lists-buckets-april-2023

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