Security Bulletins

No matter how carefully engineered the services are, from time to time it may be necessary to notify customers of security and privacy events with AWS services. We will publish security bulletins below. You can also subscribe to our Security Bulletin RSS Feed to keep abreast of security announcements.

Date Type Subject RSS Feed RSS
May 23, 2013 Important Important Red Hat and Other Third-party Public AMIs Security Concern
November 02, 2012 Important Important Reported SSL Certificate Validation Errors in API Tools and SDKs
September 11, 2012 Informational Informational Xen Security Advisories
June 15, 2012 Important Important Microsoft Windows RDP Vulnerability
June 12, 2012 Informational Informational Xen Security Advisories
March 13, 2012 Important Important Microsoft Windows RDP Vulnerability
October 23, 2011 Important Important JBoss Worm Spreading via Unpatched or Unsecured JBoss Application Server
October 20, 2011 Informational Informational Reported SOAP Request Parsing Vulnerabilities
August 31, 2011 Important Important Morto Worm Spreading via Remote Desktop Protocol
June 04, 2011 Informational Informational Reminder about Safely Sharing and Using Public AMIs
February 18, 2011 Important Important Windows CIFS Browser Protocol Heap Corruption Vulnerability
September 22, 2010 Important Important Amazon Payments Signature Validation
September 18, 2010 Important Important Linux kernel IA32 System Call Emulation Vulnerability
August 10, 2010 Informational Informational Possible Insecure memcached Configuration
July 13, 2010 Informational Informational Gmail Accounts Accessed by EC2 IPs
April 18, 2010 Informational Informational SIP abuse
December 12, 2009 Informational Informational Zeus Botnet Controller
December 03, 2009 Informational Informational SSL and TLS renegotiation vulnerabilities
November 05, 2009 Informational Informational Linux 2.6 kernel vulnerability in certain EC2 AMIs
October 13, 2009 Informational Informational UDP traffic to EC2 instances
September 29, 2009 Informational Informational Linux kernal vulnerability in certain EC2 AMIs
September 17, 2009 Informational Informational MIT and UC San Diego researchers publish report

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