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High-profile AWS breaches: lessons learned
Capital One's 2019 breach exposed 106 million records through a single SSRF call to the EC2 metadata service — here's the exact control that would have stopped it.
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Common Configuration Scoring System (CCSS) explained
NIST published CCSS in December 2010 to score misconfigurations the way CVSS scores bugs — most cloud teams have never applied it.
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The AWS Shared Responsibility Model, Explained With Real Examples
AWS secures the cloud; you secure what's in it. Most breaches — like the thousands of exposed public S3 buckets found every year — happen entirely on the customer's side of that line.
Jul 8, 20266 min read
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AWS secure REST API vs. S3: where shared responsibility actually splits
S3 buckets are private by default — every public leak is a customer misconfiguration. Capital One's 2019 breach of 106 million records proves the boundary.
Jul 8, 20267 min read
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A guide to AWS IAM permissions boundaries for delegated administration
AWS IAM lets any principal with iam:CreateRole and iam:AttachRolePolicy hand themselves admin — permissions boundaries are the one native control built to stop it.
Jul 8, 20265 min read
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Automating Security Controls on Google Cloud
Binary Authorization can block every unsigned container from reaching GKE or Cloud Run — but only if your pipeline is wired to sign images the moment they pass scanning.
Jul 8, 20267 min read
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Kubernetes secrets management vulnerability guide
Kubernetes Secrets are base64, not encrypted. Real CVEs and the Tesla breach show how attackers exploit that gap — and how to close it.
Jul 8, 20267 min read
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CI/CD pipeline security vulnerability trends
CI/CD pipelines now hold the keys attackers want most. Here's what tj-actions, Ultralytics, and Jenkins CVE-2024-23897 reveal about the trend.
Jul 8, 20267 min read
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GitHub Actions workflow injection vulnerabilities
How GitHub Actions workflow injection lets attackers hijack CI pipelines via untrusted input, real CVEs like CVE-2025-30066, and how to detect it.
Jul 8, 20267 min read
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