Amazon also provides free tools for scanning a user's cloud infrastructure to look for misconfigurations.
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Misconfigurations are so dangerous because everyone assumes they don't exist until they have been exploited.
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Without that kind of visibility and proactive notification, misconfigurations linger until an attacker discovers them.
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As the AWS team also noted during today's keynote, most security errors are caused by misconfigurations.
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Even worse, misconfigurations can put information at risk in all sorts of services, not just traditional databases.
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The researchers note that attempting to implement both operating systems creates more opportunities for misconfigurations and exposure.
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Similarly, network misconfigurations allowed for infiltration in 80 percent of external tests versus 96 percent during a simulated insider threat.
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Sebree found flaws like hardc-oded authentication credentials and network misconfigurations that could let an attacker take over the cameras.
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Data exposures stemming from misconfigurations endanger millions of records, and the gaffes don't discriminate—any data can end up at risk.
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What happened next gets technically complicated—a cascading combination of two misconfigurations and a software bug—but had a simple upshot.
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Other top bounties include a range of code injection exploits or misconfigurations that allow improper access to systems that should be locked down.
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AWS account misconfigurations have exposed everything from voter registrations, to FedEx customer data, insurance information, and even the systems of the massive accounting and consulting firm Accenture.
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RedLock discovered the intrusion while scanning the public internet for misconfigured and unsecured cloud servers, a practice that more and more defenders depend on as exposures from database misconfigurations skyrocket.
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In our research, we did not expect to see misconfigurations in critical infrastructure that, if compromised, could cause literally tens of billions of dollars of global price fluctuations in certain markets.
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Emails are easily compromised via phishing, human error contributes to misconfigurations that provide openings in the backend, outdated technology can't keep up with evolving threats and more—the list goes on.
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It's important to note that similar data server misconfigurations have occurred with Amazon's Web Services (AWS) platform before, like the Deep Root Analytics exposure this year that exposed the data files of millions of voters.
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In today's day and age, they go well beyond the firewalls on which companies once relied, with risks that include shadow IT, misconfigurations in cloud hosting, lost devices owing to M&A events, and unauthorized or unmonitored IoT equipment.
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In 2018 Lockpath launched Blacklight, Blacklight brings automation to the configuration assessment of servers and corporate devices. The platform utilizes agent technology that continuously assesses devices and systems against Center for Internet Security (CIS) configuration benchmarks, as well as custom benchmarks, to detect misconfigurations that put organizations at risk for breaches or noncompliance.
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The National Vulnerability Database (NVD) is the U.S. government repository of standards-based vulnerability management data represented using the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP). This data enables automation of vulnerability management, security measurement, and compliance. NVD includes databases of security checklists, security related software flaws, misconfigurations, product names, and impact metrics. NVD supports the Information Security Automation Program (ISAP).
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Divvy Cloud Corporation is a privately held, venture-backed American cybersecurity company with headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. Its core product protects cloud and container environments from misconfigurations, policy violations, threats, and IAM challenges. With automated, real-time remediation DivvyCloud customers achieve continuous security and compliance, and can fully realize the benefits of cloud and container technology. DivvyCloud supports AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba Cloud, and Kubernetes.
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Limiting privilege to the minimum required to work reduces or eliminates the ability of these programs and daemons to cause harm if faulty or compromised (for example via buffer overflows or misconfigurations). This confinement mechanism operates independently of the traditional Linux (discretionary) access control mechanisms. It has no concept of a "root" superuser, and does not share the well-known shortcomings of the traditional Linux security mechanisms, such as a dependence on setuid/setgid binaries. The security of an "unmodified" Linux system (a system without SELinux) depends on the correctness of the kernel, of all the privileged applications, and of each of their configurations.
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Disadvantage of Proxy ARP include scalability as ARP resolution by a proxy is required for every device routed in this manner, and reliability as no fallback mechanism is present, and masquerading can be confusing in some environments. Proxy ARP can create DoS attacks on networks if misconfigured. For example, a misconfigured router with proxy ARP has the ability to receive packets destined for other hosts (as it gives its own MAC address in response to ARP requests for other hosts/routers), but may not have the ability to correctly forward these packets on to their final destination, thus blackholing the traffic. Proxy ARP can hide device misconfigurations, such as a missing or incorrect default gateway.
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Technology websites noted that by using as the IP address for its service, Cloudflare exposed misconfigurations in existing setups that violated Internet standards (such as RFC1918). was not a reserved IP address, yet was abused by many existing routers (mostly those sold by Cisco Systems) and companies for hosting login pages to private networks, exit pages or other purposes, rendering the proper routing of impossible on those systems. Additionally, is blocked on many networks and by multiple ISPs because the simplicity of the address means that it was previously often used inappropriately for testing purposes and not legitimate use. These previous uses have led to a huge influx of garbage data to Cloudflare's servers.
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