🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.

He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords

Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

That feeling when you have a meeting about a project last discussed for 45 minutes 3 months ago

I love it when email distribution groups get messed up and you have over 300 people replying all to a group of 125k. I sense training in their future.

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Strategic. You keep using that word... I do not think it means what you think it means.

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Please be on the look out for scams this time of year. One of my family members just got hit by one where they used AI to mimic a friend's face in a call and then "had call issues" and no audio came through. Their friend's Facebook account had been hacked.

If you have different accounts representing different environments, set them up consistently! Use IaC to help ensure environments are set up the same.

I just got off a 4 hour call that could have been avoided if security groups had been set up consistently.

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You know the meeting is over when Teams suddenly drops audio from the other participant. 🤣 Luckily, I can do a little lip reading, and we finished things out smoothly. Thanks Teams...

Last night, AWS added support for S3 as a failed-event destination for async Lambda invocations. Meaning you don't have to worry about the payload size anymore. It also makes it easy to persist and potentially report on problematic events
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AWS just released the ability to scale Aurora Serverless v2 to 0 ACUs! This is fantastic news for non-production environments that sit unused outside business hours and for developers running PoCs and small applications.

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I've been experimenting with AWS FIS and have been impressed with what it can enable. You may have heard of Chaos Monkey, but there is more than that to chaos engineering. Check out my post, where I dig into FIS Lambda support.
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Well, that's a new one. "We're not using SAFe, we're not even using dangerous." Chaos is the only word left to describe how this particular project is being run. #softwareEngineering #agile