Microsoft fixes rare Azure bug leveraging containers

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Microsoft fixes rare Azure bug leveraging containers
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Microsoft fixes rare Azure bug leveraging containers

This was the first ever potential attack to use container escape to control other users' accounts

Microsoft has plugged a flaw in its Azure Container Instances (ACI) service that could have allowed a malicious actor to access customers' information. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks first re...

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