29 Aug 2024

Technology: Recent cyber attacks show even tech giants aren't

From Nine To Noon, 11:05 am on 29 August 2024
Amazon Web Services logo on the smartphone screen.

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Tech commentator Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to look at a cyber attack on cloud provider Amazon Web Services, where hackers exploited exposed environment variable (.env) files which are often overlooked in security measures but contained access codes to different programs and services.

And things weren't any better for Microsoft's Azure portal hit by a DDoS attack - but did the company's patch make the situation worse?

Tony Grasso is Principal Consultant at cybersecurity firm TitaniumDefence. He worked at GCHQ in the UK and is a former Intelligence Officer in New Zealand