Cipher Suites
When you’re using symmetric encryption you can use what’s known as either a stream cipher or a block cipher. They both ultimately encrypt your data,…
Must-have AWS security monitoring & alerting [Cheat Sheet]
Most of us know that having visibility into our cloud accounts and resources is critical, but it can easily be overwhelming to implement. What should…
Request forgeries (CSRF, XSRF, SSRF)
In 2020, CheckPoint Research announced multiple vulnerabilities in the popular social media application named TikTok. One of the found vulnerabilities allowed an attacker to delete…
IaC Scanning and Policy as Code with Checkov [Cheat Sheet]
We posted a video introducing the benefits of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scanning and Policy as Code scanning, and why you absolutely should be running…
Directory / Path Traversal
Just like you have directories on your PC, laptop, and mobile phones, web servers also have directories. For example, if you were to purchase web…
HashiCorp Vault [Cheat Sheet]
We wrote a blog post introducing and explaining what Vault is, when it’s useful, and how to get started using it to manage your secrets.…
Anatomy of an AWS IAM Policy [Cheat Sheet]
If we had to name the most critical service to understand when it comes to AWS security, it would have to be IAM (Identity and…
How crypto miners hijack AWS accounts (Cryptojacking GUI-Vil Case Study)
This is the story of how you print free money. It’s a story that involves an AWS account, a threat actor named GUI-Vil, and unauthorized…
S3 Bucket Policies vs. ACLs vs. IAM Policies [Cheat Sheet]
Understanding when to use S3 Bucket Policies versus S3 ACLs versus AWS IAM Policies can easily make your head spin. To make sense of it,…
Intro to AWS Pentesting (with Pacu)
In this article, you’re going to learn how to hack AWS cloud environments so that you can find exploitable vulnerabilities in your own AWS accounts…