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Capital One Breach: What Security Teams Can Do Now
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tdsan
tdsan,
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8/27/2019 | 10:18:55 AM
Re: Some people

"Amazon Web Services "was not compromised in any way and functioned as designed," Amazon said in a statement, adding that the reason for the breach was a misconfiguration of firewall settings managed on the cloud server by Capital One, not a vulnerability in the cloud server itself."

This was done intentionally because of the WAF's configuration, it has to be configured to allow such entry (she had insider knowledge). She intentionally modified permissions from the AWS WAF-Role to allow for this type of attack. One thing that they left out, how did she gain access to the AWS cloud environment when the SG (Security Groups) and VPN access should have blocked this intrusion from an mgmt standpoint (again another area of weak security rules and no one reviewing the work).



Also, there is something that was left out, if they (Capital-One) were not notified of the incident and she did not share her experience online, then how long would this have gone on before they would have known (years)?

This is what I mean by organizations who have been lax in their security mechanisms even though they profess to ensure data integrity at all costs (why didn't they know about customer account data being moved or copied, NSA had the same problem with Ed Snowden, if he had not said anything to the public, they would have never known, seems as though history is repeating itself and we continue to miss our lessons-learned).

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tdsan
tdsan,
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8/25/2019 | 9:16:30 AM
Excellent write up
Excellent write-up, you brought up some valid and key points. One thing that may have been overlooked by Capital one is that this may have been planned from the beginning. But I do think the infiltration or compromise was much easier than that.

When she worked for capital one, she intentionally created a back door where she had implemented credentials under another name as well as misconfigured the WAF intentionally; remember, she had full access to the security section of AWS therefore she had access to all of the access and secret keys. But it will be interesting to see what unfolds in the next few months as more case information is brought to the public.

 

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