If check any of a freshly created AWS Application LoadBalancer with a certificate from the AWS Certificate Manager, and with an HTTPS Listener’s default settings you’ll see the B grade: The main point of the SSL Labs is the support of the deprecated encryption versions – TLS 1.0 and 1.1. AWS LoadBalancer SecurityPolicy and TLS… Read More »
This post isn’t an overview of the AWS Cost Explorer service, but just a quick example of how to detect costs for your AWS account and its services. So, when I came back from the vacation, I noticed that we’ve paid more than usually for the AWS CloudWatch for August – almost 50 dollars per… Read More »
Immerse yourself into the world of .NET together with the experts at Temabit and Microsoft at the new .NET Meetup coming up on September 14. Meet our speakers: Christos Matskas, Microsoft Topic: Secure your apps with Azure and Microsoft Identity’ Anton Koposov, Temabit Fozzy Group Topic: Messaging with MassTransit Meetup will be moderate by:… Read More »
AWS Lambda allows running a code without the need to create and manage servers, also known as the serverless approach. AWS Lambda will determine how much CPU and memory is needed to run a function, and when it’s necessary it will perform autoscaling. A code to be running is organized in lambda functions and can be… Read More »
A confidential data leak such as RDS keys or passwords to a Git repository, even if it is a private Github repository, is a very bad thing and it’s good to check your repositories to know if any developer pushed a commit with such data. Scanning utilities To check Git repositories for a leak, at… Read More »
To access a database server, that has no public access (as it must be – access only inside an AWS VPC), Tableau suggests using its tool called Tableau Bridge. The idea is to have a Bridge service running in a network, which has access to a database server via its Private IP. Also, Bridge will… Read More »
One of mine website stopped working with the “Connection reset.” error. NGINX configs seem to be correct, and other sites on the same server are working. NGINX also gave nothing, no errors, PHP-FPM also are good. Let’s check the website with the curl: [simterm] $ curl -Iv https://example.setevoy.org.ua/ * Trying 139.59.205.180:443… * Connected to example.setevoy.org.ua… Read More »
Private Hosted Zone in AWS Route53 allows to limit access to DNS records of a domain, thus making it inaccessible for the DNS Enumeration (or DNS brute-force), when an attacker checks for available records in a domain to know endpoints list to check them for vulnerabilities. For such attacks, there is a lot of utilities… Read More »
In the first post – AWS: Web Application Firewall overview, configuration, and its monitoring – we spoke about its main components, created a WebACL and Rules for it, and did basic monitoring. Also, we’ve configured WebACL’s logs collection with AWS Kinesis, but now it’s time to see them Logz.io, as CloudWatch Logs isn’t available for… Read More »
AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) is an AWS service for monitoring incoming traffic to secure a web application for suspicious activity like SQL injections. Can be attached to an AWS Application LoadBalancer, AWS CloudFront distribution, Amazon API Gateway, and AWS AppSync GraphQL API. In case of finding any request that sits WAF’s rules, it… Read More »