Security: Apple, 'Cloud', Containers and More FUD
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Apple acknowledges UCR grad student for locating flaws in OS security, receives international recognition
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How to Protect Sensitive Financial Data from Ransomware with Next-Gen Cloud Infrastructure
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Container Escape Flaw Hits AWS, Google Cloud, Linux Distros
A vulnerability recently addressed in runc could allow malicious containers to gain root-level code execution on the host.
Introduced in 2015, runc is a lightweight, portable container runtime that includes all of the code used by Docker to interact with system features related to containers. The runtime is used in most containers out there, including cri-o, containerd, Kubernetes, Podman, and others.
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Linux container bug could eat your server from the inside – patch now!
If you’re a fan of retro gaming, you’ve probably used an emulator, which is a software program that runs on computer hardware of one sort, and pretends to be a computer system of its own, possibly of a completely different sort.
That’s how your latest-model Mac, which has an Intel x64 CPU, can run original, unaltered software that was written for a computer such as the Apple ][ or the Nintendo GameBoy.
One advantage of emulators is that even though the running program thinks it’s running exactly as it would in real life, it isn’t – everything it does is controlled, instrumented, regimented and mitigated by the emulator software.
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Latest Linux Crypto-Mining Malware Terminates Other Malicious Miners on Installation [Ed: The issue here isn't "Linux" but machines already compromised by something else]
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