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Thank you. dot com backslash cyberwire. Hello everyone and welcome to the CyberWire's research Saturday.

I'm Dave Bittner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts tracking down the threats and vulnerabilities,

solving some of the hard problems and protecting ourselves in a rapidly evolving cyberspace.

Thanks for joining us.

It was the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Every conference and career networking event had been canceled that I could find.

And I created a script that would email companies and ask for free conference swag.

That's Noah Pack, an intern with the Sands Internet Storm Center.

The research we're discussing today is titled,

What Happens When You Accidentally Leak Your AWS API Keys?

When I started my time in university, I was doing an introduction to computer science class.

And towards the end of that class, the instructor encouraged all the students to pursue a personal project,

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