CloudSec Wine

🔶 AWS KMS Threat Model What are the threats in letting an AWS service manage the encryption of your data instead of creating a Customer Managed Key? https://airwalkreply.com/aws-kms-threat-model #aws

🔷 Riding the Azure Service Bus (Relay) into Power Platform A deserialization issue on the Azure Service Bus (Relay) service that allowed remote code execution on Microsoft servers. https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical/vulnerability-research/azure-service-bus-power-platform #azure

🔶 Zero Trust Access to Private Webapps on AWS ECS with Cloudflare Tunnel How to use Cloudflare Tunnel to securely access a Flask webapp running in a private subnet in ECS on Fargate, without exposing the app to the public internet. https://blog.marcolancini.it/2023/blog-cloudflare-tunnel-zero-trust-ecs #aws

🔷 Super FabriXss: From XSS to an RCE in Azure Service Fabric Explorer by Abusing an Event Tab Cluster Toggle Post exploring the details of the Azure vulnerability, "Super FabriXss," the risks it poses, as well as recommendations on how to mitigate it. https://orca.security/resources/blog/super-fabrixss-azure-vulnerability #azure

🔶 The illustrated guide to S3 pre-signed URLs Article discussing in great detail what pre-signed URLs are, how to use them, and some best practices to keep in mind. https://fourtheorem.com/the-illustrated-guide-to-s3-pre-signed-urls #aws

🔶 Implementing Magic Links with Amazon Cognito: A Step-by-Step Guide A popular passwordless authentication method is magic links. Although this is not something that Cognito supports out of the box, it can be implemented using its Lambda hooks. https://theburningmonk.com/2023/03/implementing-magic-links-with-amazon-cognito-a-step-by-step-guide #aws

🔶 Mitigating SSRF in 2023 Article reviewing the different ways of triggering SSRF and discussing which mitigation techniques are most effective. https://blog.includesecurity.com/2023/03/mitigating-ssrf-in-2023 #aws

🔷 Escalating Privileges with Azure Function Apps Undocumented APIs used by the Azure Function Apps Portal menu allowed for arbitrary file reads on the Function App containers. https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical/cloud-penetration-testing/azure-function-apps #azure

🔶 Bypassing CloudTrail in AWS Service Catalog, and Other Logging Research Public disclosure of a CloudTrail bypass in AWS Service Catalog and other logging research. https://securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/bypass-cloudtrail-aws-service-catalog-and-other #aws

🔴 Improve security posture with time bound session length Session length is a configuration parameter that administrators can set to control how long users can access Google Cloud without having to reauthenticate. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/improve-security-posture-with-time-bound-session-length #gcp

🔷 Protect against cyberattacks with the new Azure Firewall Basic Azure announced the general availability of Azure Firewall Basic, a new SKU of Azure Firewall built for SMBs. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/protect-against-cyberattacks-with-the-new-azure-firewall-basic #azure

🔶 The Many Ways to Access DynamoDB Post discussing the many ways to restrict access to a DynamoDB instance at both a framework and implementation level, utilizing patterns and tools such as RBAC, IAM, Terraform. https://blog.symops.com/2023/03/10/access-dynamodb #aws

🔶 Passwordless Authentication made easy with Cognito A Step-by-Step Guide, including working demo and complete source code for both frontend and backend. https://theburningmonk.com/2023/03/passwordless-authentication-made-easy-with-cognito-a-step-by-step-guide #aws

🔴 Monitoring Kubernetes Clusters on GKE A hands-on guide to monitoring and logging at different layers in the GKE stack. https://medium.com/google-cloud/gke-monitoring-84170ea44833 #gcp

🔶 Reducing Attack Surface with AWS Allowlisting A detailed look at implementing Region and Service allowlisting in AWS. https://ramimac.me/aws-allowlisting #aws

🔶 A New Incentive for Using AWS VPC Endpoints If you haven't been using VPC endpoints until now, AWS's two new condition keys should make you consider doing so. https://ermetic.com/blog/aws/a-new-incentive-for-using-aws-vpc-endpoints #aws

🔶 Understanding the Integration Between KMS and Secrets Manager on AWS Post covering the integration between KMS and Secrets Manager on AWS, to better understand how they work. https://blog.lightspin.io/understanding-the-integration-between-kms-and-secrets-manager-on-aws #aws

🔷 Pivoting with Azure Automation Account Connections How Automation Accounts handle authenticating as other accounts within a runbook, and how to abuse those authentication connections to pivot to other Azure resources. https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical/cloud-penetration-testing/azure-automation-account-connections #azure

🔴 Google Cloud Platform Exfiltration: A Threat Hunting Guide Some security gaps that every organization using GCP should be aware of in order to protect itself from data exfiltration. https://www.mitiga.io/blog/google-cloud-platform-exfiltration-a-threat-hunting-guide #gcp

🔷 Preview support for Kata VM Isolated Containers on AKS for Pod Sandboxing Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports pod sandboxing in preview in all Azure regions on a subset of Azure VM Sizes that support Nested Virtualization. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/preview-support-for-kata-vm-isolated-containers-on-aks-for-pod/ba-p/3751557 #azure