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Inside AWS’s Crusade Against IP Spoofing and DDoS Attacks

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Inside AWS’s Crusade Against IP Spoofing and DDoS Attacks 2024-04-11 at 17:46 By Kevin Townsend SecurityWeek speaks to Tom Scholl, VP and distinguished engineer at AWS, on how the organization tackles IP Spoofing and DDoS attacks. The post Inside AWS’s Crusade Against IP Spoofing and DDoS Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an […]

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Amazon takes minority share in ChatGPT rival Anthropic AI

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Amazon takes minority share in ChatGPT rival Anthropic AI 2024-03-28 at 10:02 By Cointelegraph by Savannah Fortis Amazon has fulfilled its $4 billion investment commitment to AI startup Anthropic, announcing a minority ownership stake in the company and Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its cloud service provider. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News

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CloudGrappler: Open-source tool detects activity in cloud environments

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CloudGrappler: Open-source tool detects activity in cloud environments 2024-03-11 at 09:07 By Mirko Zorz CloudGrappler is an open-source tool designed to assist security teams in identifying threat actors within their AWS and Azure environments. The tool, built on the foundation of Cado Security’s cloudgrep project, offers enhanced detection capabilities based on the tactics, techniques, and

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Prowler: Open-source security tool for AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure

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Prowler: Open-source security tool for AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure 2024-02-07 at 07:31 By Mirko Zorz Prowler is an open-source security tool designed to assess, audit, and enhance the security of AWS, GCP, and Azure. It’s also equipped for incident response, continuous monitoring, hardening, and forensics preparation. Details The tool includes hundreds of controls that

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Researchers discover exposed API secrets, impacting major tech tokens

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Researchers discover exposed API secrets, impacting major tech tokens 2024-02-05 at 07:33 By Help Net Security Escape’s security research team scanned 189.5 million URLs and found more than 18,000 exposed API secrets. 41% of exposed secrets were highly critical, i.e. could lead to financial risks for the organizations. Exposed API secrets The exposed secrets include

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CloudFoxable: Open-source AWS penetration testing playground

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CloudFoxable: Open-source AWS penetration testing playground 2024-01-22 at 07:02 By Mirko Zorz CloudFoxable is a capture-the-flag (CTF) style learning platform you can deploy to your playground AWS account. It primarily targets current penetration testers seeking to learn exploitation of cloud-native attack paths, and cloud security experts aiming to practice offensive security techniques safely. “What makes

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Researchers Flag FBot Hacking Tool Hijacking Cloud, Payment Services

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Researchers Flag FBot Hacking Tool Hijacking Cloud, Payment Services 2024-01-11 at 23:01 By Ryan Naraine The tool, called FBot, is capable of credential harvesting for spamming attacks, and AWS, PayPal and SaaS account hijacking. The post Researchers Flag FBot Hacking Tool Hijacking Cloud, Payment Services appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from

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5 free generative AI courses you can take right now

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5 free generative AI courses you can take right now 2023-12-27 at 07:01 By Help Net Security Generative AI (GenAI) is a form of artificial intelligence technology focused on generating new content. This can include text, images, audio, and other media types. It’s a rapidly evolving field with significant implications in various industries, technology, and

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1Kosmos partners with AWS to offer MFA for customer use cases

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1Kosmos partners with AWS to offer MFA for customer use cases 07/12/2023 at 14:31 By Industry News 1Kosmos announced it has completed the integration of its 1Kosmos BlockID platform with Amazon Cognito. As an AWS Advanced Technology Partner, 1Kosmos enables Amazon customers to seamlessly add passwordless multi-factor authentication (MFA) to their customer-facing web and mobile

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Business metrics for Cisco Cloud Observability capability enables customers to protect revenue

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Business metrics for Cisco Cloud Observability capability enables customers to protect revenue 29/11/2023 at 15:02 By Industry News Cisco announced new business metrics in Cisco Cloud Observability. Powered by the Cisco Observability Platform to enhance business context for modern applications running on AWS. This latest release also supports integration with AWS services and application performance

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Amazon One Enterprise Enables Palm-Based Access to Physical Locations, Digital Assets

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Amazon One Enterprise Enables Palm-Based Access to Physical Locations, Digital Assets 28/11/2023 at 17:17 By Eduard Kovacs AWS announces Amazon One Enterprise, a palm-based identity service that enables users to easily access physical locations and digital assets. The post Amazon One Enterprise Enables Palm-Based Access to Physical Locations, Digital Assets appeared first on SecurityWeek. This

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Sumo Logic accelerates troubleshooting and security across AWS environments

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Sumo Logic accelerates troubleshooting and security across AWS environments 28/11/2023 at 17:01 By Industry News Sumo Logic announced a number of new innovations and updates that help users accelerate troubleshooting and security across AWS environments, within a span of minutes and a few clicks. Digital transformation and cloud initiatives are creating complexity for organizations, with

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IBM partners with AWS to optimize data management for AI workloads

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IBM partners with AWS to optimize data management for AI workloads 28/11/2023 at 15:01 By Industry News IBM announced that it has been working with AWS on the general availability of Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Db2, a fully managed cloud offering designed to make it easier for database customers to manage data

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Amazon One Enterprise palm-based identity service improves security of physical spaces, digital assets

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Amazon One Enterprise palm-based identity service improves security of physical spaces, digital assets 28/11/2023 at 10:31 By Industry News AWS announced Amazon One Enterprise, a palm-based identity service for comprehensive and easy-to-use authentication that improves organizational security and helps prevent costly security breaches. The new service enables organizations to provide a fast, convenient, and contactless

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Trellix accelerates threat detection and response with GenAI capabilities

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Trellix accelerates threat detection and response with GenAI capabilities 27/11/2023 at 15:01 By Industry News Trellix announced its generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) capabilities, built on Amazon Bedrock and supported by Trellix Advanced Research Center. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service from AWS making foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies accessible via an API

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AWS Kill Switch: Open-source incident response tool

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AWS Kill Switch: Open-source incident response tool 27/11/2023 at 09:01 By Mirko Zorz AWS Kill Switch is an open-source incident response tool for quickly locking down AWS accounts and IAM roles during a security incident. The solution includes a Lambda function and proof of concept client. You can either adopt this client or build your

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8 free AI and GenAI courses from AWS

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8 free AI and GenAI courses from AWS 21/11/2023 at 14:02 By Industry News Amazon’s AI Ready initiative aims to provide free AI skills training and education to 2 million people globally by 2025. “Artificial intelligence is the most transformative technology of our generation. If we are going to unlock the full potential of AI

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10 corporate cybersecurity blogs worth your time

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10 corporate cybersecurity blogs worth your time 14/11/2023 at 09:02 By Help Net Security In this article, we’ve curated a list of insightful corporate cybersecurity blogs that provide analysis and actionable advice to help you keep your company’s digital assets secure. This list is not meant to be exhaustive since thousands of companies have infosec

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Sumo Logic discloses potential breach via compromised AWS credential

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Sumo Logic discloses potential breach via compromised AWS credential 08/11/2023 at 14:49 By Helga Labus Cloud-native big data and security analytics firm Sumo Logic is investigating a potential security incident within their platform, the company revealed on Tuesday. The Sumo Logic incident “On Friday, November 3rd, 2023, Sumo Logic discovered evidence of a potential security

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AWS European Sovereign Cloud allows customers to keep all metadata in the EU

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AWS European Sovereign Cloud allows customers to keep all metadata in the EU 25/10/2023 at 11:16 By Industry News AWS announced it will launch the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, a new, independent cloud for Europe designed to help public sector customers and those in highly regulated industries meet the most stringent regulatory data residency and

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