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By Fei Huang There’s a new vulnerability which could affect containerized apps; this time it’s the Samba vulnerability affecting Linux networking. Samba allows non-Windows operating systems to share network shared folders, files, and printers with a Windows operating system. The network security space keeps catching people’s eyes recently with new exploits affecting popular systems. The Windows “WannaCry” ransomware attack, which …
By Fei Huang “WannaCrypt ransomware attacks should make us wanna cry” is the CNN news headline for the world-wide ransomware attack which started last Friday (5/12). The data clearly showed that this was a very serious network attack: more than 20 hospital IT systems (Britain’s NHS had to cancel surgeries), more than 100 countries, large enterprises like Spanish firms Telefonica, Germany’s main train …
By Andson Tung We have seen a lot of reports on how the Linux kernel can be compromised by the Dirty Cow (CVE-2016-5195) exploit. One technique that attackers use is to exploit this kernel bug to overwrite a so-called setuid program in the system. A setuid program allows the user to temporarily elevate the privilege in order to perform a certain …
By Fei Huang Today more and more applications are running in a public cloud in containers. A common question we hear is “Do AWS container threats exist and how can we detect them?” For the application administrator or a security team, it is always interesting to know what and how their containers look like from security point of view. The recent …
Backed by behavioral learning, zero-configuration application delivers runtime visibility and network security that adapts to fluctuating container environments San Jose, California – January 31, 2017 – NeuVector today announced the launch and immediate availability of a new approach to securing Docker containers. With constant behavioral learning automatically applied to security policies for containers, NeuVector secures containers where they have been …
