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Make a resolution to clean up your digital act? Here’s how

The Parallax

If you want to channel those feelings into getting safer in 2018, follow these seven steps, garnered from how-tos we’ve published this year, to better secure your digital life. Step 5: Keep your software up-to-date. That includes the operating system, the programs and apps that run on it, and the aforementioned Internet of Things.

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The Growth of Vulnerability Assessment: A Look at What Nessus Offers Today

Tenable

The Nessus team continues to develop advanced assessment capabilities, including visibility into new operating systems, exploitable vulnerabilities and container instances. When first released, Nessus compiled on Linux and had 50 plugins. Kali 2018, 2019, 2020. 4, 1998, it was an “alpha” release. FreeBSD 12.x.

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Physical Hack, Insider Threat: Busted by Cortex XDR Managed Threat Hunting

Palo Alto Networks

Utilman.exe is a Windows protected file and the only way to overwrite it would be to first disable the Windows system file checker, or do it without the operating system running. . Alicia is an expert in hunting and collecting threats, and in reverse-engineering malware using code analysis. Who’s Alicia?

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Internet of Termites

AlienVault

Note: As we were publishing this, Symantec released a report on attackers using Termite in the 2018 attack stealing the health data of a quarter of the Singapore population. Termite popped up on our radar when we were reviewing malicious binaries compiled to run on IoT architectures. How Termite and EarthWorm Work.

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What’s Next for Hybrid App Developers? (Sponsored)

David Walsh

Using NativeScript’s iOS Runtime as an example, we can see that our JavaScript application code, plugins, and modules are passed to a JavaScript Virtual Machine (either V8 for Android or WebKit’s JavaScriptCore for iOS). This exists on the device and is therefore responsible for interacting with native code.

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Container Security – What Are Containers? – Part 1

Xebia

The following blogs will be about container security and tools to help secure containers during the software development lifecycle. A VM is the virtualization/emulation of a physical computer with its operating system, CPU, memory, storage and network interface, which are provisioned virtually. A running image is a container.

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How to Use Open Source Software: Features, Main Software Types, and Selection Advice

Altexsoft

February 1998 became one of the notable months in the software development community: The Open Source Initiative (OSI) corporation was founded and the open source label was introduced. The term represents a software development approach based on collaborative improvement and source code sharing. What is open source software?