This Week in Sprng - April 1st, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another exciting installment of This Week in Spring! It's April Fools day, so be wary of things you read on the internet, but it's also the 11th anniversary of Spring Boot 1.0, which was released this day in 2014! that's not an April Fools. Happy birthday! I'm in...

Teleport: SSRF in region parameter that leads to AWS Teleport role AWS account takeover

You have an Integration page in Teleport where one of the options is AWS OIDC which will allow people in Teleport to add resources fluently without actually having initial access to these resources or installing any agents on them. You will need to have connected and ready OIDC integration with A...

Year In Review: Rapid7 InsightIDR

You’re in cybersecurity, so we’ll guess: 2022 crashed in with Log4Shell and, for the most part, got more challenging—never less. So, we kept making tangible improvements to InsightIDR, our cloud-native next-gen SIEM and XDR. We worked with some of our most forward-deployed practitioners: Rapid7...

Automated remediation level 1: Lock down fundamentals

Non-calamitous conclusions When teams work in silos, they often can have different interpretations of the same data. There’s no way to leverage the real benefits of automated remediation if this is your reality. Ensuring visibility across teams is a critical component in a shared data set where...

UPDATE: Infection Monkey 1.6.3

PenTestIT RSS Feed Some days ago, Infection Monkey 1.6.3 was released. The first post about this tool can be found in a post titled the List of Adversary Emulation Tools. This is a small bugfix release, mostly around integration and packaging. It contains two user facing changes as well. What is...

New Relic: [New Relic Infrastructure] Restricted User can still integrate with AWS via forced browsing (plus, a few other bugs)

Hi all - recently I took a look at the User Restrictions settings that were recently implemented, and I have to say it is much more defined and looks like your devs did a great job, however, there is an issue within Infrastructure which enables a Restricted User to create integrations with AWS,...