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Less Is More: Why One Antivirus Software Is All You Need

Personal devices and the information they carry are incredibly valuable to their owners. It is only natural to want to protect your device like a royal family fortifying a medieval castle. Unlike medieval castles that depended upon layers and layers of protection (moats, drawbridges, spiky gates, etc.), personal devices thrive on just one defense: a devoted guard called antivirus software.   Increasing your personal device’s […]

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  • October 31, 2022

AWS CloudFormation Policy Document Error Messages Could Be Nicer

Telling me I have an invalid policy document with no further information is not helpful — and the errors in this post seem like they would be easy to pass through I was just getting some errors with a policy document for a VPC Endpoint. The error messages are simply this: InvalidPolicyDocument (Service: AmazonEC2; Status Code: 400; Error Code: […]

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  • October 30, 2022

Deleting CloudFormation resources with IAM and Resource Policy Dependencies

ACM.96 Gotchas when trying to create zero-trust policies and then later deleting and recreating the policies This is a continuation of my series of posts on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. Dependencies between CloudFormation stacks What happened when I tried to delete some stacks is that I could not delete them because other CloudFormation stacks reference that stack. […]

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  • October 29, 2022

Deleting CloudFormation Stacks

ACM.95 Creating a script to delete a stack of resources so you can redeploy from scratch This is a continuation of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. Deleting stacks might not be as easy as you think! As I explained in the last post, my resources got into a mangled state in CloudFormation I couldn’t fix […]

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  • October 29, 2022

A Risk Assessment style most CISOs have never seen

Seldomly seen but nice to have Continue reading on The CISO Den »

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  • October 29, 2022

Chrome issues urgent zero-day fix – update now!

We’ve said it before/And we’ll say it again/It’s not *if* you should patch/It’s a matter of *when*. (Hint: now!)

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  • October 29, 2022

Twilio Reveals Another Breach from the Same Hackers Behind the August Hack

Communication services provider Twilio this week disclosed that it experienced another “brief security incident” in June 2022 perpetrated by the same threat actor behind the August hack that resulted in unauthorized access of customer information. The security event occurred on June 29, 2022, the company said in an updated advisory shared this week, as part of its […]

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  • October 29, 2022

Cisco Secure Workload: Policy-as-Code Is a Win-Win for Everyone

The last few years have proved to be a catalyst for digital transformation for many of our enterprise customers. Application modernization and adopting multicloud are the foundational building blocks for digitizing business. Customers employ CI/CD (continuous integration, continuous delivery) to modernize their applications, building them on a cloud infrastructure. This evolution has given rise to […]

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  • October 28, 2022

Phishing attacks increase by over 31% in third quarter: Report

Email security and threat detection company Vade has found that phishing emails in the third quarter this year increased by more than 31% quarter on quarter, with the number of emails containing malware in the first three quarters surpassing the 2021 level by 55.8 million. Malware emails in the third quarter of 2022 alone increased […]

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