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TROOPERS20 Training Teaser: Attack And Defence In AWS: Chaining Vulnerabilities To Go Beyond The OWASP Top 10

Thu, 27 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Attackers are everywhere. They are now on the cloud too! Attacking the most popular cloud provider – AWS, requires the knowledge of how different services are setup, what defences do we need to bypass, what service attributes can be abused, where can information be leaked, how do I escalate privileges, what about monitoring solutions that may be present in the environment and so on! We try to answer these questions in our intense, hands-on scenario driven training on attacking and subsequently defending against the attacks on AWS.

Auditing AWS Environments

Wed, 07 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

Related to our new TROOPERS workshop “Jump-Starting Public Cloud Security”, this post is going to describe some relevant components which need to be taken care of when constructing and auditing an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environment. Those include amongst others the general AWS account structure, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Auditing and Logging (CloudTrail and CloudWatch), Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networks, as well as S3 buckets.

The AWS IAM service is responsible for identity and access management (surprise!). This includes managing user accounts, defining password policies, and – most importantly – creating, defining, and assigning groups and roles.

The Key to your Datacenter

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

During our ongoing research on the security of cloud service providers and cloud based applications, we performed a regular audit of our AWS account password. Thinking of popular incidents and evergreens in attack vectors, we were wondering which consequences an online bruteforce attack on our AWS password would have. So we decided to perform a bruteforce attack against our own account. Analyzing the login process of AWS, the following requirements for the bruteforce tool to be used could be derived: