Cloud Security

News

Summer 2017

Azure vs AWS

UpGuard in a post

The UpGuard report was just the latest in a string of such announcements, including:

• In April, an analysis of AWS cloud usage by Threat Stack Inc. revealed widespread critical AWS security misconfigurations affecting nearly three-quarters of more than 200 surveyed organizations.
• In May, RedLock Inc. published a research report finding many security issues primarily caused by user misconfigurations on public cloud platforms, with AWS figuring prominently.
• Earlier this month, Appthority published investigation results that found nearly 43 TB of enterprise data was exposed on cloud back-ends, including personally identifiable information (PII).

The finding by UpGuard resulted in a post about "AWS S3 Bucket Provisioning."

Tools

DNS

Simple DNSCrypt

DNS Proxy

https://simplednscrypt.org/

https://github.com/bitbeans/SimpleDnsCrypt

IPLookup

https://community.spiceworks.com/tools/ip-lookup/results

Browsers

Epic Privacy Browser

https://www.epicbrowser.com/

Comodo Dragon

https://www.comodo.com/home/browsers-toolbars/internet-products.php

Brave

https://brave.com/

Tor

Anonymous Browsing

https://www.torproject.org/index.html.en

Google

If using Google via tor you might end up redirected to a localized google site so try:

http://www.google.com/ncr (no country redirect) instead

https://www.google.com/webhp?cr=countryUS should also work.

Browser Security – Go Private

Use InPrivate or InCognito Browsing

Internet Explorer: Control + Shift + P

add –private to shortcut

Chrome Control/Command + Shift + N

add –incognito to shortcut

pr

FireFox

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -private-window

Clean your Flash Cookies

%appdata%\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects

Clean your DNS Cache

ipconfig /flushdns

Reference

In Private Browsing

https://www.howtogeek.com/137466/how-to-always-start-any-browser-in-private-browsing-mode/