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Don't Take the Bait: Tips to Avoid Falling Victim to Phishing and Baiting

May 31, 2023 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
The old days of a hacker sitting alone in a basement typing feverishly to breach a database are over. That's just for the movies. In the real world, almost all cyberattacks are socially engineered, meaning we fall for scams. Of course, there are levels to creating a scam. It can range anywhere from getting an email from a Nigerian prince claiming you've won millions of dollars to an email from your bank asking for your personal information. With so many situations to look out for, here are some general tips so you don't take the bait.
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solarwinds

Why Your Observability Strategy Needs Security Observability

May 31, 2023 By Jeff Stewart In SolarWinds
An observability strategy helps many businesses support the stability and performance of complex, distributed IT environments. Since you may already be tracking the three pillars of observability—metrics, logs, and traces—why shouldn’t you also use the endless stream of telemetry data to identify security risks and vulnerabilities, just as you use it to monitor and stabilize operations? Even the best-planned observability strategy is incomplete without the fourth pillar of security.
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Grafana Labs partners with GitHub to enable secret scanning

May 31, 2023 By Victor Cinaglia, Joao Guerreiro In Grafana

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, we are excited to announce we have partnered with GitHub to protect our users on public repositories via GitHub’s secret-scanning feature. Through the partnership, GitHub will notify Grafana Labs when one of the following secret types is exposed in the code of a public repository: GitHub actively monitors public repositories for leaked secrets. When a secret is detected, its hash is stored in Grafana Labs’ Secret Scanning API.

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What is so Pro in Ubuntu Pro?

May 31, 2023 By Canonical In Canonical
Open source is everywhere, but what’s its role in your company? According to Synopsys 2023 OSSRA research, around 96% of companies use open source in their codebases. From which at least 84% contained known vulnerabilities. Nowadays vulnerability exposure lasts for around 98 days, which means that the majority of companies are not fixing known vulnerabilities in their codebases for 3 months. This is simply not acceptable.
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What is Palo Alto Panorama?

May 31, 2023 By LogicMonitor In LogicMonitor
Palo Alto Panorama is a network management system (NMS) that provides excellent security updates and static rules in a constantly changing world. The modern world is implementing more technology into our daily lives, so we need more creative and innovative solutions to protect our data and information. Implementing Palo Alto Panorama will reduce administrator workload by building a dashboard where you can monitor all of your IT operations in one place, in real-time.
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Amazon Security Lake & ChaosSearch deliver security analytics with industry-leading cost & unlimited retention

May 30, 2023 By Sandro Lima In ChaosSearch
Amazon Security Lake is a new service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that is designed to help organizations improve their security posture by automating the collection, normalization, and consolidation of security-related log and event data from integrated AWS services and third-party services (Source Partners). By centralizing all the security data in a single location, organizations can gain greater visibility and identify potential threats more quickly.
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Kubernetes Security: Secrets from the Trenches

May 30, 2023 By Lindsey Rogerson In MetricFire

Kubernetes is a popular open-source container orchestration platform. It is highly configurable and feature-rich, but it also requires a deep understanding of containerization. When you are running Kubernetes in production, you need to account for cluster monitoring and logging, governance, and security. In this article, you will learn about Kubernetes security, including pro tips to help you handle architecture concerns, dependencies, and container vulnerabilities.

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The new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation MichaelKors

May 30, 2023 By Vincent de Vries In OpsLogix
A new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation called MichaelKors has recently emerged, which targets Linux and VMware ESXi systems. The cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike warns that this trend is significant since ESXi does not support third-party agents or antivirus software which makes it an attractive target for cybercriminals.
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