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A critical vulnerability in Kubernetes could allow unauthorized SSH access to a virtual machine running an image created with the Kubernetes Image Builder project. Kubernetes is an open-source platform that helps automate the deployment, scale, and operate virtual containers – lightweight environments for applications to run. With Kubernetes Image Builder, users can create virtual machine (VM) images…

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Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released joint guidance on Product Security Bad Practices, a part of CISA’s Secure by Design initiative. This joint guidance supplies an overview of exceptionally risky product security bad practices for software manufacturers who produce software in support of critical infrastructure…

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Oct 16, 2024Ravie LakshmananEndpoint Security / Malware Threat actors are attempting to abuse the open-source EDRSilencer tool as part of efforts to tamper endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions and hide malicious activity. Trend Micro said it detected “threat actors attempting to integrate EDRSilencer in their attacks, repurposing it as a means of evading detection.”…

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‘We support the x86. The x86 is very important to us. We support it for PCs, workstations, data centers. And so the fact that the architecture was fragmenting isn’t good for the industry, so I love what they’re doing,’ Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells CRN about the formation of the Intel-AMD ecosystem advisory group. The…

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Today, CISA published the Framing Software Component Transparency, created by the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) Tooling & Implementation Working Group, one of the five SBOM community-driven workstreams facilitated by CISA. CISA’s community-driven working groups publish documents and reports to advance and refine SBOM and ultimately promote adoption. This resource serves as the detailed foundation of SBOM,…

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Today, CISA—with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National Security Agency (NSA), and international partners—released joint Cybersecurity Advisory Iranian Cyber Actors Brute Force and Credential Access Activity Compromises Critical Infrastructure. This advisory provides known indicators of compromise (IOCs) and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by Iranian actors to impact organizations across multiple critical…

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‘AI is by far the channel’s biggest opportunity yet,’ says Google Cloud’s Erin Rifkin. Google Cloud has added four new learning paths to help developers with generative artificial intelligence skills for building applications, managing and securing machine learning models, generating content and analyzing data–especially important for the vendor’s solution providers bringing AI products and services…

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Summary The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSE), the Australian Federal Police (AFP), and Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC) are releasing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory to warn network defenders of Iranian cyber actors’ use…

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Oct 16, 2024Ravie LakshmananData Privacy / Passwordless The FIDO Alliance said it’s working to make passkeys and other credentials more easier to export across different providers and improve credential provider interoperability, as more than 12 billion online accounts become accessible with the passwordless sign-in method. To that end, the alliance said it has published a…

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‘They have vulnerabilities that have been announced with security notices and patches that have been released, but customers haven’t updated. And the adversaries around the world are taking advantage of it—whether it’s critical infrastructure or the carrier networks or whatever,’ says Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins. Cisco Systems Chair and CEO Chuck Robbins says there is…

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