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One chief information security officer (CISO) recently asked me how he should describe SASE (secure access service edge) and zero-trust networking to his company’s directors. My answer was easy: You shouldn’t. As companies revamp their technology infrastructure to leverage cloud efficiencies and enable a remote workforce, cybersecurity is now mission-critical for senior executives and boards of directors.

On March 4th, a new privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2022-0492) in the Linux kernel was published. It has the potential to allow container escape and take control over the entire node on which the container runs. All the CSPs and Linux distribution providers have issued patches to close this vulnerability. Unfortunately, there is no unified kernel version numbering across these platforms and some of them allow to apply a patch without changing the kernel version number.

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Another day, another cloud service leaking personal data because of a misconfiguration. And before you jump to any conclusions, no, it’s not a leaky bucket on AWS S3 or a public blob on Microsoft Azure… The culprit is, once again, GitHub, where an open-source hardware manufacturer has inadvertently left exposed a private-to-public repository that “could have enabled unauthorized access to information about certain user accounts on or before 2019.”

Linux maintainers disclosed a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux Kernel. The vulnerability has been issued a Common Vulnerability and Exposures ID of CVE-2022-0492 and is rated as a High (7.0) severity. The flaw occurs in cgroups permitting an attacker to escape container environments, and elevate privileges. The vulnerable code was found in the Linux Kernel’s cgroup_release_agent_write in the kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c function.

In April 2021, CVE-2022-0847 was discovered by security researcher Max Kellermann; it took another few months for him to figure out what was happening. The flaw has already been patched in the Linux kernel and the Android kernel. Affected Linux distributions are in the process of pushing out security updates with the patch. Due to the similarities of the Dirty Cow flaw, CVE-2016-5195; has been named Dirty Pipe.

Happy International Women’s Day 2022. This year the theme is 'Break the Bias,' which calls for everyone to take action and call out gender bias, discrimination, and stereotyping. Infosecurity Magazine recently highlighted 90% of security leaders are suffering skills shortages, with 3.5 million positions unfilled in 2021. According to Best Colleges, women continue to outnumber men in college completion.