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Cloud Security

A lot of users, organizations and even nation states and governments utilize the versatility of Amazon’s S3 service. Any data that is stored on S3 needs to maintain the basic tenets of security, which include encryption of data at rest, in motion, authorization to access the data and assurance that actions performed on the data are auditable. In this article, we will take a look at how we can use the features provided by S3 to ensure our data is secure on the cloud.

`v6disc` is a shell script that was created to quickly and automatically discover IPv6 hosts with the option to ping or run nmap against discovered hosts.

Masscan is an Internet-scale port scanner. It can scan the entire Internet in under 5 minutes, transmitting 10 million packets per second, from a single machine. This is thanks to it being written in C, having its own ad-hoc TCP/IP stack and asynchronous transmission similar to port scanners like scanrand, unicornscan, and ZMap.

RustScan is a port scanning tool for scanning IPv6 networks. This article features a quick guide on setting up and using RustScan’s port scanning capabilities.

Excessive permissions in cloud accounts can significantly increase the attack surface. It is important to understand what permissions are assigned to various users, groups, roles, service accounts versus what permissions they actually need.

fi6s is a port scanning tool for scanning IPv6 networks. This article features a short guide on setting up and using fi6s’s port scanning capabilities.