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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

It’s time to evolve beyond the UNIX operating system. So while I was editing this podcast on self-healing operating systems, I was reminded of an article that I never finished for Fobes.com. It’s a radical rethinking of how we even view our current choices of UNIX-derived operating systems.

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Ready…Set…Start Your Containers

CIO Business Intelligence

Incompatibility and unreliability caused by configuration differences such as versions of compilers, loaders, runtime libraries, middleware, and operating systems in new environments contributed to increased project effort, cost, and timelines. Containers provide an elegant solution to this problem. in an isolated and executable unit.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: In the fall of 2014, Shellshock was publicly disclosed. Vamosi: So a vulnerable version of Bash provided an attacker the ability to pass untrusted code to other systems and processes. It’s like the operating system left the front door wide open to attackers. And it's a doozy program. How did this happen?

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: In the fall of 2014, Shellshock was publicly disclosed. Vamosi: So a vulnerable version of Bash provided an attacker the ability to pass untrusted code to other systems and processes. It’s like the operating system left the front door wide open to attackers. And it's a doozy program. How did this happen?

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Technology Short Take #62

Scott Lowe

Cue the round of folks claiming that this is why proprietary network operating systems [NOSes] are the route the networking industry should be taking.). Cumulus Networks recently shifted their pricing and licensing model toward perpetual licenses; this article has more information and a comparison of the old vs. new models.

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Technology Short Take #53

Scott Lowe

In this post, I’ve gathered links to posts about networking, virtualization, Docker, containers, Linux, configuration management, and all kinds of other cool stuff. Operating Systems/Applications. John Griffith has a blog post (slightly older, from December 2014) on using OpenStack live migration with Cinder-backed instances.

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Technology Short Take #50

Scott Lowe

It’s important to note that these security enhancements don’t really represent “net new” functionality but rather reflect existing Linux security constructs now being exposed and usable by Docker. look no further—Jad El-Zein has posted a ton of content generated by an online “install and config” event he held right at the end of 2014.

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