Cybersecurity experts are falling prey to seven myths in the effort to protect their business. Shape's Daniel Woods writes for Forbes, explaining where these myths have led us astray, and how to keep the useful bits while discarding the chaff.
Since March, the COVID crisis has caused massive disruption to every area of life and work. It has tested us, as individuals and as a business. Akamai has taken a very human-centric approach during the pandemic. Our guiding principle has been to do what is right for the health and safety of employees, customers and partners. I feel proud of this, because when I think about what I'm grateful for, it really does come down to people. I'm grateful to be working for a company that is keeping people connected to the world through technology. I'm grateful to be among smart, immensely resilient colleagues. And I'm grateful to have friends and family who are sticking together. Ultimately, it's the humanity that matters.
Amazon Bug Bounty! Great news: Amazon is now offering bounties via a security vulnerabiltiy research program
Bad news: AWS is out of scope!
When I read this I remembered that a few years ago I found persistent Cross-Site-Scripting on the AWS Console.
This post is a write up on how I found the XSS back then, techniques I used and how they evolved over the years and Amazon’s response.
AWS Console and Cross Site Scripting The story is that I had just created an AWS account and started using the service.
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