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By: Glen Kosaka

April 3, 2024 1:56 pm

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How NeuVector Can Protect Against the XZ Backdoor Attack CVE-2024-3094 in Kubernetes Environments

Security researcher Andres Freund reported to Debian that the xz/liblzma library had been backdoored. As a result, CVE-2024-3094 was published with a critical CVSS score of 10. This vulnerability stems from a supply chain compromise on versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 of XZ Utils. XZ Utils is data compression software included in […]

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By: Glen Kosaka

December 12, 2021 1:29 pm

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Critical Vulnerability in Apache Log4j 2 (CVE-2021-44228)

A critical, high severity vulnerability (CVSS v3.0 10/10 rating) in the Apache Log4j open source Java logging library was disclosed Thursday, December 9 on the foundation’s github page. On Wednesday, Dec 15 a new vulnerability CVE-2021-45046 was published and patched, according to this article. This was the result of an incomplete initial patch […]

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By: Glen Kosaka

March 22, 2018 12:28 pm

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Kubernetes System Security – Protecting Against Kubelet Exploits

By Andson Tung As critical as it is to protect application containers deployed by Kubernetes, it is just as critical to protect the Kubernetes system containers from attacks or from being used in an attack. In this post I’ll focus on one important Kubernetes security area – protecting the Kubelet, which manages the pods […]

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