Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

This Tech Short Take is a bit heavy on security-related links, but there’s still some additional content in a number of other areas, so you should be able to find something useful—or at least interesting—in here. Security In early February a vulnerability was uncovered in a key component of the Linux boot process.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 13, 2023

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a technology that has revolutionized the way we access and control remote computers. In this article, we will delve deeper into the world of Virtual Network Computing, exploring its history, technology, and various applications. What is Virtual Network Computing (VNC)?

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Network World

MARCH 30, 2017

VMware has released critical security patches for vulnerabilities demonstrated during the recent Pwn2Own hacking contest that could be exploited to escape from the isolation of virtual machines. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here The researchers were awarded $105,000 for their feat.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Here’s your weekend reading—a collection of links and articles from around the internet on a variety of data center- and cloud-related topics. Security I attended a local meetup here in the Denver metro area a short while ago and was introduced to sops. I hope you find something useful here!

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Network World

APRIL 12, 2018

First, there were virtual machines, which ran a whole instance of an operating system. They still run on a server; they just don’t have a dedicated server, virtual machine, or container running 24/7. To read this article in full, please click here It takes the idea of a smaller server footprint to the next level.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2023

This is the next installation in my semi-regular series that shares links and articles from around the interwebs on various technology areas of interest. Security Undetectable cryptomining technique on Azure ? This article from Amrutha Chennepalli hits all my favorite haunts: Kubernetes, Kuma Mesh, and Pulumi. Pulumi with C#.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

Well, you’ll have to read the whole article to find out for sure, but I have links to articles on…well, lots of different topics! DNS, BGP, hardware-based security, Kubernetes, Linux—they’re all in here. Alex Neihaus provides readers with a walkthrough for adding BGP routes to AWS security groups.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

But even while open source software is widely used in networking, operating systems, and virtualization, enterprise security platforms still tend to be proprietary and vendor-locked. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Fortunately, that’s changing.

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Dataconomy

MAY 8, 2023

However, much like the vast expanse of space, the cloud can be a dangerous place without proper security measures in place. To navigate this cosmic challenge, the shared responsibility model has emerged as a guiding light in the world of cloud computing security. Managing the hypervisor and other virtualization components.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2024

Networking This article on running WireGuard in Docker may prove useful if that’s an approach I decide to adopt for my AWS lab infrastructure. Security Rory McCune shares some information about a change in kubeadm version 1.29 Check out the newsletter to get the link to the Istio article.)

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Network World

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

It sounds like a smartphone user's worst fear: Software that starts up before the phone's operating system, intercepting and encrypting every byte sent to or from the flash memory or the network interface. This is not some new kind of ransomware, though, this is the D4 Secure Platform from Cog Systems.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This article provides a few practical examples of how using VPC Endpoints to reduce network traffic moving through NAT Gateways can help save money. Rory McCune has a series of articles on PCI compliance in containerized and Kubernetes environments. food references in the title of this article are almost too much.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

I mean, don’t you want to spend this weekend catching up on some technology-related articles instead of cooking on the grill and gathering with friends and family? Still, for those who need a little technology fix over the weekend, hopefully I’ve included something useful in the list of articles below. I certainly hope not!

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Linux Academy

MAY 13, 2019

We have incident response plans so we can quickly address security incidents and eliminate the threat as quickly as possible. We need the ability to respond to security incidents like a well-oiled machine to protect three things: Our data and our clients’ data, such as PHI, PII, and PCI. The server is to remain powered on.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

This is the last Technology Short Take of 2021, so hopefully I’ll close the year out “with a bang” with this collection of links and articles on various technology areas. Aqua Security has a write-up on some of their analysis here. I found this article on NSO/Pegasus a very interesting read. Networking.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Skyport offers SkySecure Server, a remotely deployable platform for Windows and/or Linux virtual machines in a fortress-like environment. It comes pre-built and ready to host and secure either their list or your qualified list of popular host operating systems as VMs. Skyport does one thing, and it does it well.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 7, 2023

Links to the previous three posts are embedded in the article. Security GitHub recently had to change their RSA SSH host key ; be sure to check out the details. Rory McCune examines some container security fundamentals that arise from the fact that “containers are just processes. and Kong API Gateway 3.0. (Be

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. As Alec shares in the article, it turns out that adding Tor to a “standard” DoH configuration doesn’t significantly impact performance (as measured by latency). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2023

To that end, here’s the latest Technology Short Take, with links to a variety of articles in various disciplines. He’s recently published articles on DHCP relaying in VXLAN segments , DHCP relaying in EVPN VRFs , and most recently DHCP relaying with redundant DHCP servers. I’m here to help, after all. Flexibility?

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Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

Information technology is the use of any tech devices, infrastructure, software and processes to create and process, store, secure and exchange all forms of digital data. Our articles are typically focused on software recommendations, business, security, interesting topics and search engine optimization and marketing.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

This time I’m including two of his articles. William Lam shares news about higher-capacity SODIMMs available for small or ultra small form factor systems. Security Jeff Warren discusses a potential way for malicious players to bypass multi-factor authentication, aka the “Pass the Cookie” attack.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq. A bunch of home Wi-Fi routers are suspectible to attack; see this article for more details.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

a bevy of security articles (including a couple on very severe vulnerabilities), Kubernetes, AWS IAM, and so much more! Author “JulioPDX” (I couldn’t find the author’s real name on any of their online profiles) has an article on integrating Nornir with FastAPI. This article seems to think so.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

I’ve got another collection of links to articles on networking, security, cloud, programming, and career development—hopefully you find something useful! Security Adrian Mouat reviews some of the security-focused changes in Go 1.20. Read this article and you will be enlightened. to version 8.0.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

This time around, my list of links and articles is a tad skewed toward cloud computing/cloud management, but I’ve still managed to pull together some links on other topics that readers will hopefully find useful. Lucky for you there’s a link to an article about it below. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Network World

MAY 3, 2017

The Xen Project has fixed three vulnerabilities in its widely used hypervisor that could allow operating systems running inside virtual machines to access the memory of the host systems, breaking the critical security layer among them. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In any case, I’ve spent the last month collecting links to articles and tutorials from around the web on all the various technologies that us IT folk are likely to encounter in our day-to-day adventures. Looks like some significant bandwidth increases could be on the horizon; see this article for more details. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

I’d never heard of Pipy before seeing it in this article , but it look like it could be quite useful for a number of use cases. Tetragon is Isovalent’s newly open-sourced security framework. Tzah Pahima shares additional details on the so-called Azure “SynLapse” security vulnerability. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 29, 2022

My link of links and articles from around the Internet is a bit light on networking and virtualization this time around, but heftier in the security, cloud, and OS/application sections. Daniel Holback talks about the addition of fuzzing to the Flux controllers , to improve the security posture of the Flux project.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

If you’re interested in finding some links to articles around the web on topics like WASM, Git, Sigstore, or EKS—among other things—then you’ve come to the right place. I’m not a Tailscale user (although I do use WireGuard), but this KB article describing how to use Tailscale on AWS App Runner is pretty cool.

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Galido

MAY 1, 2019

The deeper we dive into modern technology terms, the more it seems we try to blend physical and virtual worlds together. These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs.

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Network World

MARCH 9, 2017

There’s a lot of flexibility with containers, as they can be deployed on top of any bare-metal server, virtual machine, or platform-as-as-service (PaaS) environment. Developers have embraced Docker containers on public clouds because they don’t need help from an IT operations team to spin them up.

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Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

The deeper we dive into modern technology terms, the more it seems we try to blend physical and virtual worlds together. These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs.

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KineticData

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This article delves into our path to operational excellence, achieved by strategically incorporating automation and DevOps practices. Containerization allows us to abstract the operating system that our application runs on into the “container” that the application is running in, as well as any related dependencies.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2022

In particular, the “Career/Soft Skills” section is a bit bigger than usual this time around, as is the “Security” section. Phil Stokes of SentinelOne describes some of the early security changes found in macOS “Ventura” (i.e., Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. As Alec shares in the article, it turns out that adding Tor to a “standard” DoH configuration doesn’t significantly impact performance (as measured by latency). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2023

If you’re new to this site, the Technology Short Takes are essentially “link lists”—I collect links and articles about various technologies and I share them about every 3-4 weeks (sometimes more frequently). Get more details in this article. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

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