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February 2024

What are secrets? Why hardcoded secrets are a security risk. Explained in 60 seconds

Secrets like API keys, Certificates, and credential pairs are used throughout modern software development. However, these pose a significant risk as attackers are always after them to gain unauthorized access to our system. This video explains in 60 seconds why hardcoding secrets or insecurely storing them is a security issue. The video also addresses some tools to use to manage your secrets or to scan your sourcecode for secrets,

Cybersecurity in Healthcare: Beyond the Myths

This article was originally published at TheHackerNews Let's begin with a thought-provoking question: among a credit card number, a social security number, and an Electronic Health Record (EHR), which commands the highest price on a dark web forum? Surprisingly, it's the EHR, and the difference is stark: according to a study, EHRs can sell for up to $1,000 each, compared to a mere $5 for a credit card number and $1 for a social security number.

What is IaC? Infrastructure as code explained in 60 seconds

IaC or infrastructure as code is the codifying of our infrastructure. it takes the manual tasks that a sys admin would have done and it makes it repeatable and scalable. IaC can be declarative or descriptive and uses lots of different tools like Terraform Ansible and Puppet to name a few. This video explains what IaC is and how it works in 60 seconds.

Cloudflare breach - How the Okta attack led to Cloudflare systems getting hacked: Breach Breakdown

In this video, we drill down into the recent breach of Cloudflare systems including how attackers were able to use stolen credentials from the Okta attack to move laterally and hack the Cloudflare internal Atlassian server. The security incident shows the dangers of secrets sprawl not only in internal systems but also in the supply chain leading to potential data leaks.

Pulumi VS Terraform: The Definitive Guide to Choosing Your IaC Tool

In the cloud-native era, Infrastructure as Code (IaC; read more about it in this blog here) has become the de-facto standard for managing cloud infrastructure, and more. While Terraform has been around for almost a decade, and it had been the one-and-only cloud-agnostic option for a couple of years before competitors emerged, now the landscape is a whole lot more diverse: we've got AWS CDK, CDK for Terraform, and there is a relatively new kid on the block: Pulumi.