Containers: Rootful, Rootless, Privileged and Super Privileged

This article is about containers, the different types (depending on what privileges we let them have), and how they build their isolation: mainly kernel namespaces and capabilities, overlay filesystems, seccomp, and SELinux. My motivation to start this article was for me to understand a bit better how the combination of container isolation mechanisms and privileges affects (increasing or decreasing) the risk of kernel flaws.

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My introduction to Z3 and solving satisfiability problems

Z3 is a powerful framework for problem solving, developed by Microsoft Research. Given a list of restrictions and conditions, Z3 finds one solution that satisfies them all, if that solution exists. Some complex problems can be solved easily with Z3. It can be used for multiple purposes but some known uses in security are exploiting or checking firewall rules. It is also a handy tool for solving many CTF challenges related to encryption and keygen generation.

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Introduction to dependencyCheck: an open source Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tool

depencencyCheck is an open source dependency security scanner. This kind of tools are also called SCA (Software Composition Analysis).

dependencyCheck identifies which dependencies (aka third party libraries) a software is using and indicates if any of them have known vulnerabilities.

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