Security: Windows, Microsoft, Kubernetes and GNU/Linux
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Hackers Are Using Windows .EXE File To Infect MacOS
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Protecting the Logical Security of a Network Environment
Microsoft Has Made Home Users More Vulnerable by Removing Local Security Policy Editor
For years, Microsoft Windows provided two key methods for implementing logical security: Local Security Policy Editor (Group Policy Editor in the server environment) and the Advanced Firewall. Unfortunately, Microsoft has now removed the Local Security Policy Editor from Windows 10 Home edition. Microsoft provides it only in the Professional edition, which is a huge security mistake.
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Runc and CVE-2019-5736
This morning a container escape vulnerability in runc was announced. We wanted to provide some guidance to Kubernetes users to ensure everyone is safe and secure.
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Reasonably secure Linux
Put a lock on your door and they get in through a window. Lock the window and they’ll just smash it. Put bars on the windows and they pick your door lock. Deadbolt the door and they will trick their way in pretending to be the gas man. An analogy, how quaint!
Computer security can, at times, feel like an arms race between global superpowers. Yet at least with the Linux kernel and open source everything’s out in the open. Indeed, there’s an entire world of developers whose livelihoods depend on the FOSS ecosystem being secured. -
Meaningful 2fa on modern linux
So there are a few parts here. AD is for intents and purposes an LDAP server. The
is also an LDAP server, that syncs to AD. We don’t care if that’s 389-ds, freeipa or vendor solution. The results are basically the same.Now the linux auth stack is, and will always use pam for the authentication, and nsswitch for user id lookups. Today, we assume that most people run sssd, but pam modules for different options are possible.
There are a stack of possible options, and they all have various flaws.
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