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Kinsing Malware Hides Itself as a Manual Page and Targets Cloud Servers

Tenable

Apache Tomcat is an open source server that provides static data (like images and other static content), which makes it fully accessible from the internet, making it an attractive attack surface. The Kinsing malware uses different locations to stay undetected and hides itself as a system file. /var/cache/man/cs/cat3/:

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CVE-2023-38545, CVE-2023-38546: Frequently Asked Questions for New Vulnerabilities in curl

Tenable

Background On October 3, Daniel Stenberg, an open-source developer and maintainer of curl, took to X (formerly Twitter) to announce that a new high severity CVE would be fixed in curl 8.4.0. curl is widely used by system administrators and developers. Identifying affected systems Once curl 8.4.0

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Security for Big Data Designs: Examining best practices with security architect Eddie Garcia

CTOvision

The breakfast event focused on security for big data designs and featured the highly regarded security architect Eddie Garcia. Eddie Garcia is chief security architect at Cloudera , a leader in enterprise analytic data management. Combined with Cloudera technology, it becomes a secure and powerful enterprise architecture.

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16 best entry-level IT certifications to launch your career

CIO

The follow-on Apple Deployment and Management course focuses on configuring, managing, and securing Apple products using mobile device management (MDM). The exam covers topics such as coding, designing cloud architecture, cloud security, troubleshooting, implementation, migration, load and performance testing, and business applications.

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Cloud Computing Cost Drivers and Savings

CloudSphere

A Reduction of Duplicate Data: According to a report by Gartner , cloud computing has the potential to reduce duplication and cost, especially in government data centers. Fewer License Requirements: Other cost opportunities involve moving from custom software to standard off-the-shelf packages or even open-source software stacks.

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Authentication and Authorization, Post-Auth0: Styra* and Extending Identity to All Layers of the Cloud-Based Application Stack

Battery Ventures

But we believe user authentication–validating that a user really is who they say they are–is just the starting part of the online-security battle for today’s organizations. This work resulted in our prior investments in JFrog* for binary repository; Cypress* for testing automation; and Bridgecrew* for developer-security automation.

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Top 10 Highest Paid Programming Languages in 2019

The Crazy Programmer

Rust has proceeded the C++ and C with respect to the security, speed, and agility. The primary reason for the popularity of this object-oriented programming language is its safe code system that eliminates the strange behavior, and even the system crashes by restricting the access of program to a specific part of the memory.