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Capital One is a cautionary tale for companies rushing to embrace new tech

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Jeff Stone

Capital One always said it wasn’t like other banks. While other financial giants cautiously waded into their own digital transformations, Capital One’s leadership has sought to differentiate the $28 billion bank by investing in technology meant to modernize their business. The bank has increased its number of technology staffers to 9,000 today from 2,500 in 2011, assigning employees to software engineering, artificial intelligence and building a digital chatbot to automate reminders to customers about when their bills are due or flag unusually large restaurant tips in case they want to rescind them, Rob Alexander, the bank’s chief information officer told the Wall Street Journal last year. Capital One also was different for its use of Amazon Web Services, a rarity in the financial services industry where most corporate heavyweights simply don’t trust third-parties to store their financial data. At Capital One, the use of AWS was to serve as proof of […]

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Clues to the alleged Capital One hacker’s crimes were all over the internet

Posted on July 30, 2019 by Jeff Stone

The hacker who allegedly infiltrated Capital One to access personal information belonging to roughly 106 million people made it easy for the FBI to track her down: there were clues spread across a variety of popular websites. Paige A. Thompson, a 33-year-old Seattle-based software engineer, bragged about taking data from Capital One’s Amazon Web Services instances on a private Slack channel and a public GitHub post from an account that displayed her full name. When another GitHub user noticed Thompson’s claims, they alerted Capital One, and it wasn’t long before the bureau was involved. In one private message included in the complaint, Thompson allegedly told a friend via Slack, “I’ve basically strapped myself with a bomb vest, f—ing dropping Capital One dox and admitting it. I wanna distribute those buckets …There’s SSNs..with full name and [date of birth].” Thompson’s Github page also linked to her GitLab profile, which included her […]

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Capital One announces massive data breach; lone suspect arrested in Seattle

Posted on July 29, 2019 by Greg Otto

Financial giant Capital One announced a large data breach Monday, with the company saying that one person accessed personal information of approximately 100 million people in the United States and 6 million in Canada who had applied for or are currently considered users of the company’s credit cards. Additionally, the FBI arrested a woman in Washington state who is suspected of hacking into the company to obtain that information. Paige A. Thompson was arrested Monday and appeared in federal court in Seattle. According to the complaint, Thompson allegedly took wide swaths of personal information from Capital One’s cloud storage instances on March 22 and March 23. The company stored the data taken by Thompson on Amazon Web Services. The company says this information included names, addresses, zip codes/postal codes, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth and self-reported income. The information ranged from 2005 to early 2019. Additionally, Capital One […]

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What is AWS® SSO?

Posted on July 26, 2019 by Zach DeMeyer

|The Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS), aka single sign-on (SSO), market is one that is constantly expanding. While there are some main players, like Okta and Azure® AD, other big names have entered the game as well. For instance, Amazon® We… Continue reading What is AWS® SSO?→

Cloud RADIUS AWS®

Posted on April 28, 2019 by Zach DeMeyer

Can you run a cloud RADIUS solution from AWS®? Or, more pointedly, does AWS offer a cloud RADIUS service? The answer to both questions is no. Quite simply, AWS doesn’t offer a cloud RADIUS offering. The real question is: what problem are you… Continue reading Cloud RADIUS AWS®→

LDAP for AWS® without Servers

Posted on February 28, 2019 by Ryan Squires

As data centers around the globe pack up and move to AWS®, many DevOps engineers and IT organizations are grappling with how to manage access to that cloud infrastructure. From that, they’re coming up with a bunch of different ideas. Chief a… Continue reading LDAP for AWS® without Servers→

What to Know About AWS, LDAP, and SSO

Posted on February 25, 2019 by Nick Scheidies

The identity and access management (IAM) space is complicated. There’s conventional, on-prem directory services, cloud-based directory services, open source solutions like OpenLDAP™, and a cadre of SSO platforms. The number of combinations … Continue reading What to Know About AWS, LDAP, and SSO→

AWS® Authentication using LDAP and IAM

Posted on February 17, 2019 by Ryan Squires

AWS® cloud infrastructure has been replacing traditional data centers for many years now. While many IT organizations have moved their on-prem and collocated data center infrastructure to AWS, a significant number of organizations are undergoing t… Continue reading AWS® Authentication using LDAP and IAM→

Azure® AD vs AWS® Directory Service

Posted on February 7, 2019 by Rajat

Directory services in the cloud are a hot topic these days. The two major Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers—Amazon Web Services® (AWS®) and Microsoft® Azure®—have realized they they must provide the functional… Continue reading Azure® AD vs AWS® Directory Service→

Authenticate Gmail™ Users with AWS® Servers

Posted on January 16, 2019 by Ryan Squires

Is it possible to authenticate Gmail™ users with AWS® servers? Said another way, can somebody use their Gmail or G Suite™ credentials to login to AWS® Linux®, and Windows® servers? These services exemplify two of the mos… Continue reading Authenticate Gmail™ Users with AWS® Servers→