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Ionize is the company blog at ionize.com.au, writing about security. Since 2017, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Stealing Amazon EC2 Keys via an XSS Vulnerability”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.

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5mentions?
4HN people?
2017–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2018

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's post on stealing Amazon EC2 keys via XSS vulnerabilities. A commenter cites it as evidence that the credential-exposure problem already exists on EC2.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

cyber security; sovereign; security operations centre; penetration testing; grc; cyber risk management; managed cyber security services

Most-linked posts?

  1. Stealing Amazon EC2 Keys via an XSS Vulnerability
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-10-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. This is already an issue on EC2. https://ionize.com.au/stealing-amazon-ec2-keys-via-xss-vulne...

    Comment linking /stealing-amazon-ec2-keys-via-xss-vulnerability/

    on “AWS Secrets Manager – Store, Distribute, and Rotate Credentials Securely”
  2. Submitted Stealing Amazon EC2 Keys via an XSS Vulnerability as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Deserialisation Vulnerabilities as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Taking Local File Disclosure to the Next Level as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Stealing Amazon EC2 Keys via an XSS Vulnerability – Ionize as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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