Security Leftovers
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Security updates for Friday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (libetpan and smarty3), SUSE (libksba, rpmlint-mini, tcl, and xrdp), and Ubuntu (curl, firefox, and linux-oem-5.14).
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4 Ways to Use Kernel Security Features for Process Monitoring - The New Stack
The large attack surface of Kubernetes’ default pod provisioning is susceptible to critical security vulnerabilities, some of which include malicious exploits and container breakouts. I believe one of the most effective workload runtime security measures to prevent such exploits is layer-by-layer process monitoring within the container.
It may sound like a daunting task that requires additional resources, but in reality, it is actually the opposite. In this article, I will walk you through how to use existing Linux kernel security features to implement layer-by-layer process monitoring and prevent threats.
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Malware Effects at Least 30 WordPress Plugins – Update Now
If you publish a website using WordPress as your platform, right now would be a good time to go to the back end and see if any of your installed plugins need updating. If there are any, you might want to click on the “update now” button.