Hacking K8s: Analysis of Payloads and Defense Techniques

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Examines payloads and defensive techniques targeting Kubernetes (K8s) infrastructure, describing specific attack vectors that exploit misconfigurations in microservice deployments and container orchestration. Presents concrete detection and mitigation approaches for securing K8s clusters, including hardening practices and ways to analyze malicious payloads.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 4:00Containers vs VMs
3. 10:00Linux capabilities and privileges
4. 17:05Privileged container vulnerabilities
5. 23:22Security audit tools
6. 30:02Q&A

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