Siloscape malware targets Windows containers, breaks through to the underlying Kubernetes cluster

Source:-https://www.theregister.com/ A reverse engineer has discovered what is claimed to be “the first known malware targeting Windows containers to compromise cloud environments,” a sentence to put any system administrator on edge. Building on work published in December of last year on reverse-engineering Windows containers, security researcher Daniel Prizmant’s latest discovery – made during his day job at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 security arm – looks to punch holes in Kubernetes clusters, and has apparently succeeded in doing so across

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StackRox Tool Prevents Kubernetes Misconfigurations

Source:-https://containerjournal.com StackRox today unveiled an open source static analysis tool dubbed Kubelinter that analyzes YAML files and Helm Charts to identify misconfigurations in Kubernetes deployments prior to deployment. Viswa Venugopal, staff software engineer at StackRox, says given the prevalence of misconfigured Kubernetes clusters it’s apparent there is a need for a security tool that IT teams can employ before a Kubernetes cluster is deployed. Written on the Go programming language, Kubelintr accomplishes that goal in a single binary file that

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