Friday, August 17
TOP STORY
Offensive Cyber Operations and the Interagency Process. Robert Chesney from lawfare blog looks at what’s at stake with the new Trump policy.
HACKTIVITY HIGHLIGHTS
Cross-site request forgery vulnerability resulting in the deletion of a user's account [14 upvotes] - published vulnerability by @EdOverflow.
Vanilla SQL Injection Vulnerability [23 upvotes] - $600 bounty for this report to Vanilla by @balis0ng.
TWEET OF THE DAY
#AWS tip: Did you know that even though the majority of the EC2 metadata API is disabled in AWS Glue Dev Endpoints, you can still retrieve temporary credentials for the attached role by curling [redacted] - @SpenGietz
OTHER ARTICLES WE’RE READING
James Kettle’s web cache poisoning talk from BSides Manchester
Recorded Future reports that following a trade mission, Chinese actors conducted cyber espionage activities against U.S. energy and communications companies.
An Australian teenager is accused of breaching Apple and downloading 90gb of files. His tools were saved in a folder dubbed “Hacky hack hack”.
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