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Scott Weston

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Scott Weston is a Labs Researcher at NetSPI originally from San Diego, CA and currently based out of MN. He has over 5 years of experience in information security and has worked in areas focusing on web, external networks, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). In his spare time he enjoys pursuing individual bug bounties and other interesting avenues of pentesting.

Scott can be found under the alias @WebbinRoot on platforms like LinkedIn and has various open source projects that can be found on GitHub

More By Scott Weston

Cloud Pentesting

Administrating the Administrator, An OCI Identity Domains Permission Bypass

Discover how a permission bypass in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) identity domains allowed lower-level administrator roles to create API keys for Identity Domain Administrators, leading to an unauthenticated privilege escalation path.

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Cloud Pentesting

An Introduction to GCPwn – Parts 2 and 3

Example exploit path using GCPwn covering enumeration, brute forcing secrets manager versions, and downloading data from cloud storage both through default enum_buckets and with HMAC keys.

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Cloud Pentesting

An Introduction to GCPwn – Part 1

GCPwn is a pentesting tool. Learn about credential management, launching modules, permissions (including testIamPermissions), and final notes.

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Cloud Pentesting

Pivoting Clouds in AWS Organizations – Part 2: Examining AWS Security Features and Tools for Enumeration

Explore AWS Organizations security implications and see a demonstration of a new Pacu module created for ease of enumeration. Key insights from AWS pentesting.

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Cloud Pentesting

Pivoting Clouds in AWS Organizations – Part 1: Leveraging Account Creation, Trusted Access, and Delegated Admin

Explore several key points of AWS Organizations theory and learn exploitable opportunities in existing AWS solutions. Key insights from AWS pentesting.

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