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8/27/2019 | 10:18:55 AM
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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