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11 Useful Security Tips for Securing Your AWS Environment
Want to take advantage of excellent cloud services? Amazon Web Services may be the perfect solution, but don't forget about AWS security. Whether you want to use AWS for a few things or everything, you need to protect access to it. Then you can make sure your business can run smoothly. Read on to...
Amazon Has Trucks Filled with Hard Drives and an Armed Guard
From an interview with an Amazon Web Services security engineer: So when you use AWS, part of what youre paying for is security. Right; its part of what we sell. Lets say a prospective customer comes to AWS. They say, "I like pay-as-you-go pricing. Tell me more about that." We say, "Okay, heres h...
ec2-35-169-138-170.compute-1.amazonaws.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability
Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1189660 Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has:       a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence;       b. notified the website...
How to Reset Password in Veeam Backup for AWS
Related User Guide Page Veeam Backup for AWS User Guide: Accessing Web UI from Workstation Challenge You may need to reset a password in Veeam Backup for AWS. Solution Make sure that the machine you are using for troubleshooting is in the list of allowed IP addresses in the Security Groups of you...
Migrating Network Protection to the Cloud with Confidence
For modern organizations, speed and agility is the key to success – built on enhanced IT efficiency and performance driven by the cloud. Anything less could see your business outpaced by the competition. As always, security must be a priority when migrating to the cloud, but network teams are bei...
This Week in Security News: Malvertising and Internet of Things Malware
Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about a new Internet of Things malware that’s bricked thousands of devices. Also, read about a ransomware family that’s using...
AWS re:Inforce 2019 re:Cap
The inaugural AWS Cloud security conference—AWS re:Inforce—was held in Boston this week. Well over 8,000 attendees descended on the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center for two days jammed packed with security education and cloud content. This was a very interesting conference because the...
This Week in Security News: Security and Privacy Issues
Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, understand how Trend Micro Deep Security service will be integrating with AWS Security Hub. Also, learn how to prevent risks and secure...
UPDATE: Infection Monkey 1.6.1
PenTestIT RSS Feed I'm sure you must have read my previous post title the List of Adversary Emulation Tools. In that post, I briefly mentioned about the Guardicore Infection Monkey. Good news now is that it has been updated! We now have Infection Monkey 1.6.1. An important change about this versi...
AWS Security Hub and Deep Security
One of the biggest challenges in maintaining your security posture is visibility. You have security controls deployed throughout the stack, and each fo these tools is generating its own set of data points and has its own view of your deployment. Managing the multitude of alerts and events from...
Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALAS-2018-939) (Meltdown) (Spectre)
An updated kernel release for Amazon Linux has been made available which prevents speculative execution of indirect branches within the kernel. This release incorporates latest stable open source Linux security improvements to address CVE-2017-5715 within the kernel and builds upon previously...
UPDATE: Prowler 2.0 Beta
PenTestIT RSS Feed My older post about Prowler was about a good NINE months ago. Since then, a lot has changed and hence, this post is about the recently released update made to the AWS CIS Benchmark tool – Prowler 2.0 Beta! This new beta version has lots of improvements which you shall read abou...
Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2018-939) (Meltdown) (Spectre)
An updated kernel release for Amazon Linux has been made available which prevents speculative execution of indirect branches within the kernel. This release incorporates latest stable open source Linux security improvements to address CVE-2017-5715 within the kernel and builds upon previously...
Security auditing tool for AWS: AWS Scout2
Scout2 is an open source tool that helps assessing the security posture of AWS environments. Using the AWS API, the Scout2 Python scripts fetch CloudTrail, EC2, IAM, RDS, and S3, configuration data. The gathered configuration is analysed and stored as JSON objects in several JavaScript files. The...
Amazon Cloud Can Be Used to Hack Into Networks !
A Germany-based security researcher says he can hack into protected networks using software that runs on Amazon's cloud-based computers, according to a Reuters report. Thomas Roth, a computer security consultant based in Cologne, Germany, says he has "figured out a quick and inexpensive way to...