Hacker Tools Used for Good as Exposed Amazon Cloud Storage Accounts Get Warnings

Responding to the all too familiar news of compromised Amazon cloud storage, security researchers have begun leaving “friendly warnings” on AWS S3 accounts with exposed data or incorrect permissions. The misconfiguration of access control on the AWS storage “buckets” has been responsible for numerous high profile data breaches, including Verizon, The Pentagon, Uber, and FedEx.   […]… Read More

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Study: Alarming Number of Fortune 500 Credentials Found in Data Leaks

Data breaches are common in the news lately, but a recent study by credential monitoring firm Vericlouds focuses specifically on the credentials of Fortune 500 employees found in account leaks posted online. Using a corpus of 8 billion stolen credentials gathered over three years, the total number of employees of each Fortune 500 company was […]… Read More

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AWS GuardDuty and the Cloud Management Assessor

Recently at its re:Invent 2017 conference, Amazon announced an interesting new security offering called “GuardDuty.” GuardDuty uses threat intelligence, machine learning and anomaly detection to deliver agentless security findings across a variety of AWS services. This blog will discuss a bit about GuardDuty and show one example of how to gather custom data within the Cloud […]… Read More

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Could Containers Save The Day? 10 Things to Consider when Securing Docker

By now, we’re all aware of the Equifax breach that affected 143 million customer records. Equifax reports that Apache Struts vulnerability CVE-2017-5638 was used by the attackers. Equifax was not running its vulnerable struts application in a container, but what if it had been? Containers are more secure, so this whole situation could have been […]… Read More

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