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Researchers show techniques for malware persistence on F5 and Citrix load balancers

Network World

Tests show that deploying malware in a persistent manner on load balancer firmware is within reach of less sophisticated attackers.

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Scott Lowe

Networking Lee Briggs (formerly of Pulumi, now with Tailscale) shows how to use the Tailscale Operator to create “free” Kubernetes load balancers (“free” as in no additional charge above and beyond what it would normally cost to operate a Kubernetes cluster). Think Linux doesn’t have malware?

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Why you must extend Zero Trust to public cloud workloads

CIO Business Intelligence

Why securing cloud workloads is an urgent matter In recent years, major cloud service providers encountered 6,000 malware samples actively communicating with them, underlining the magnitude of cloud security challenges. 3 We have seen an increase of 15% in cloud security breaches as compared to last year. 8 Complexity.

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U.S. Agencies Release Guidelines for DDoS Attacks

SecureWorld News

malware insertion or data exfiltration—victims should stay on guard to other possible compromises throughout a DDoS response. Although a DDoS attack is unlikely to impact the confidentiality or integrity of a system and associated data, it does affect availability by interfering with the legitimate use of that system.

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Technology Short Take 144

Scott Lowe

Sentinel Labs outlines a major malware push that is bypassing Apple’s malware protections. Rudi Martinsen has an article on changing the Avi load balancer license tier (this is in the context of using it with vSphere with Tanzu). Upgrading to Go 1.17 might be a good idea. See here for why.

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Technology Short Take 151

Scott Lowe

Nick Schmidt talks about using GitOps with the NSX Advanced Load Balancer. Cross-platform malware. Aidan Steele examines how VPC sharing could potentially improve security and reduce cost. What do you think microsegmentation means ? Servers/Hardware. The Next Platform takes a look at Amazon’s Graviton3 processor.

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Technology Short Take 144

Scott Lowe

Sentinel Labs outlines a major malware push that is bypassing Apple’s malware protections. Rudi Martinsen has an article on changing the Avi load balancer license tier (this is in the context of using it with vSphere with Tanzu). Upgrading to Go 1.17 might be a good idea. See here for why.

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