Two new strains of malware–XBash and DemonBot–are targeting Apache Hadoop servers for Bitcoin mining and DDOS purposes. This malware is scanning the internet so vigorously for Hadoop clusters that an infection can occur within minutes of an insecure cluster being placed on the open internet. This blog post describes the mechanism this malware uses and offers specific actions […]
Cloudera has put a significant amount of work into upgrading the third-party libraries used in our just-released C6 version. This major upgrade of our software has given us the opportunity to upgrade many of the libraries we use. These upgrades allow us to avoid security vulnerabilities, use modern versions of libraries, and to standardize versions […]
