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Unit 42 Discovers First Known Malware Targeting Windows Containers

Palo Alto Networks

The Unit 42 cybersecurity consulting group published research on the first known malware targeting Windows containers, which was discovered by Unit 42 researcher Daniel Prizmant and named Siloscape. A cluster is the basic architecture of Kubernetes (an open-source container platform). Diagram of Windows container (source: Microsoft).

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Agentless Workload Scanning Gets Supercharged with Malware Scanning

Prisma Clud

Enterprises taking advantage of cloud-native architectures now have 53% of their cloud workloads hosted on public clouds, according to our recent State of Cloud-Native Security Report 2023. Using WildFire in 2021 to analyze malicious files, our threat research team discovered a 73% increase in Cobalt Strike malware samples compared to 2020.

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How to use your Android as a 2FA key

The Parallax

Google’s move to turn Androids themselves—the ones already in consumers’ hands—into the physical keys needed to unlock accounts is a “game changer,” Joseph Lorenzo Hall, chief technologist and director of the Internet Architecture project at the Center for Democracy and Technology , said in an email. “It Android Q adds privacy, fragmentation.

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When least privilege is the most important thing

CIO

Organizations that follow the principle of least privilege can improve their security posture by significantly reducing their attack surface and risk of malware spread. In the early days of Windows operating systems up through Windows XP, almost any program a user would launch would have administrator-level privileges.

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An Edge Vision for the Metaverse

CIO

After all, you wouldn’t want your haptic glove to misbehave in the metaverse or your autonomous vehicle sensors to be hijacked by malware. Operating Systems for the edge. Separating system and application spaces is already gaining followers for immutable Linux operating systems – even in consumer devices.

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Android Q adds privacy, fragmentation

The Parallax

Google’s Android mobile operating system has long been criticized for fragmentation , as millions of older devices no longer receiving regular security and feature updates continue to connect to the Internet. Google Play is an ‘order of magnitude’ better at blocking malware. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google’s

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What’s next for network firewalls?

CIO

 Convergence through the use of a single operating system facilitates integration and automation, improving operational efficiency and security consistency no matter where users or applications are distributed. Integration between the different security technologies allows them to function collaboratively.

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