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AWS Launches Open-Source Agent for AWS Secrets Manager
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new open-source agent for AWS Secrets Manager. According to the company, this agent simplifies the process of retrieving secrets from AWS Secrets Manager, enabling secure and streamlined application access.
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Microsoft Entra Suite Now Generally Available: Identity and Security Based Upon Zero-Trust Models
Microsoft has announced the general availability of its Entra Suite. According to the company, the suite provides a solution that integrates identity and security, facilitating a more unified approach to security operations.
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JEP 472: Prepare to Restrict the Use of JNI in JDK 24
JEP 472, now Proposed to Target, aims to issue warnings for using the Java Native Interface (JNI) and adjust the Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API for consistent warnings. This prepares developers for future releases that restrict JNI and the FFM API to ensure integrity by default.
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InfoQ Dev Summit Boston: Optimizing Java Applications on Kubernetes - Beyond the Basics
At the InfoQ Dev Summit in Boston, Bruno Borges, who has been principal PM manager at Microsoft for over six years, shared insights on optimizing Java applications on Kubernetes. His session focused primarily on leveraging JVM ergonomics, understanding the impact of CPU throttling, and effectively managing garbage collection processes.
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AWS Adds Passkey Support for Enhanced Security, Enforces MFA for Root Users
AWS has recently announced two new security features. First, passkeys can now be used for multi-factor authentication (MFA) for root and IAM users, providing additional security beyond just a username and password. Second, AWS now requires MFA for root users, starting with the root user account in an AWS Organization. This requirement will be expanded to other accounts throughout the year.
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Elastic Automates SIEM Investigations with Tines
Elastic's information security team recently detailed their workflow automation using Tines, aimed at improving their ability to identify and respond to cybersecurity threats. The system automatically triages alerts from its Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system, enhancing the ability to identify and prioritize real threats.
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Introducing New SKUs for Microsoft Azure Bastion: Developer and Premium Options Now Available
Microsoft recently announced new SKUs for its Azure Bastion service: a Developer SKU that is now generally available (GA) after its public preview last year and a premium SKU being rolled out in a public preview.
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InfoQ Dev Summit Munich: Learn from German Automotive, Banking, and TelCo Software Practitioners
InfoQ Dev Summit Munich is a two-day in-person software development conference for senior software engineers, architects, and team leaders in the Bavarian capital on September 26th and 27th. The sessions will cover critical topics such as generative AI and platform engineering, with use cases from the German automotive, banking, and telecommunication industries.
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The Guardian's Deep Dive into Qubes OS: a Secure Solution for Whistleblowing and Journalism
The Guardian's engineering team recently shared their experience with Qubes OS, a security-focused desktop operating system. The engineering team configured the Quebes workstations utilizing SaltStack, the default management engine in the Quebes OS.
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NIST Launches Program to Discriminate How Far from "Human-Quality" are Gen AI Generated Summaries
NIST launched a public Gen AI evaluation program for systems developed by the international research community. The pilot program focuses on systems that can generate human-like summaries from multiple documents, or discriminators to identify whether a summary was AI-generated. For now, information about text-to-text modality is available. The registration closes in May.
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Microsoft Launches Trusted Signing in Public Preview: an End-to-End Signing Solution for Developers
Microsoft recently launched Trusted Signing in Public Preview, a fully-managed end-to-end signing solution for developers backed by a Microsoft-managed certification authority.
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Understanding Email Threats with Cloudflare Radar
Cloudflare recently announced the launch of a new Email Security section on Cloudflare Radar. This section will provide insights into the current state of email security. The new metrics offer real-time visibility into email-borne threats, allowing organizations to correlate trends within their environment with broader security observations from Cloudflare.
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SSH Backdoor from Compromised XZ Utils Library
When Microsoft engineer Andres Freund noticed SSH was taking longer than usual, he discovered a backdoor in xz utils, one of the underlying libraries for systemd, that had taken years to be put in place. The backdoor had found its way into testing releases of Linux distributions like Debian Sid, Fedora 41 and Fedora Rawhide but was caught before propagating into more highly used stable releases.
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Shadow API Detection for Google Cloud Environments in Preview
During Google Cloud Next, Google announced the preview release of shadow API detection in Advanced API Security, part of the Apigee API Management solution. This managed API Broker service in the Google Cloud allows users to design, secure, deploy, monitor, and analyze APIs.
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Azure API Management Basic V2 and Standard V2 GA: Enhancing Scalability, Security, and Networking
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of new pricing tiers for Azure API Management, Basic v2, and Standard v2. It offers scalability and flexibility to support various development projects, from small to enterprise-level applications.