Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

In case you hadn’t noticed, I’m at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014 this week in San Francisco. Intel has a very large consumer presence: PCs, ultrabooks, tablets, phones, 2-in–1/convertibles, all-in–1 devices. Day 1 Keynote. Here’s a liveblog of the IDF 2014 day 1 keynote. Technical Sessions.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

This blending of “traditional” network engineering with containers, Linux, and DevOps tooling is how Matt is setting new trends and directions for the networking industry. Mark Ermolov discusses a vulnerability in the ROM (read-only memory) of the Intel Converged Security and Management Engine (CSME). Good stuff here!

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Isovalent—the company behind Cilium, the eBPF-powered networking solution for Kubernetes clusters—just launched with a $29M Series A round of funding. Operating Systems/Applications. You may have heard of eBPF, the Linux technology that is reshaping Linux applications (and in some ways reshaping Linux itself).

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

” Ivan Pepelnjak attempts to answer the question, “How much do I need to know about Linux networking?” ” Speaking of Linux networking…Marek Majkowski of Cloudflare digs deep into conntrack , used for stateful firewalling functionality. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

In this post , Jakub Sitnicki digs way deep into the Linux kernel to uncover the answer to the question, “Why are there no entries in the conntrack table for SYN packets dropped by the firewall?” Linux malware is getting more sophisticated. Operating Systems/Applications. ” Get ready to get nerdy!

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

Nadella and Microsoft are explicitly positioning Windows as the opposite, saying it’s more open and that the goal of Windows is to allow other companies to build big businesses and platforms of their own without Microsoft getting in the way. POSIX, which is a set of operating system standards. This one’s deep.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

I’m back home in Denver after spending a few days in San Francisco at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013, so I thought I’d take a few minutes to sit down and share a summary of the event and my thoughts. Enhancing OpenStack with Intel Technologies for Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud: [link].

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

Cue the round of folks claiming that this is why proprietary network operating systems [NOSes] are the route the networking industry should be taking.). The article specifically calls out SR-IOV as well as Intel Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) support within Open vSwitch (OVS). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 17, 2017

Hykes talks about the second challenge to moving into production securely: the diversity of infrastructure and operating systems (OSes) underneath Docker. This led Docker to work with a number of other companies to build a secure, lean, portable Linux subsystem. LinuxKit is a lean, portable, and secure Linux subsystem.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

News in the OpenStack space hasn’t been so good recently (Intel pulling out of OSIC, various companies laying off folks, other “pure play” companies shifting focus away from OpenStack), but here’s one architect’s perspective on what you may still want to attend the OpenStack Summit. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

I’d love to hear from more networking pros (please disclose company affiliations) about their thoughts on this matter. Is Intel having second thoughts about software-defined infrastructure? Operating Systems/Applications. Running Hyper-V with Linux VMs? Need to get a better grasp on OpenFlow? Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

There’s a lot of talk about how Nvidia is “owning” the AI movement, but as Derrick Harris points out, Intel still owns the data center. Here’s a good “what you need to know” article by Kevin Houston on the new Intel Xeon Scalable Processor (SP), recently announced. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Jointly authored by VMware, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Intel, this new protocol proposal attempts to bring together the strengths of the various network virtualization encapsulation protocols out there today (VXLAN, STT, NVGRE). Via Kevin Houston, you can get more details on the Intel E7 v2 and new blade servers based on the new CPU.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

Alex Galbraith recently posted a two-part series on what he calls the “NanoLab,” a home lab built on the Intel NUC (“Next Unit of Computing”). Note that the author apparently works for Mirantis, which is a company that provides OpenStack consulting services. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

In this respect, it seems similar to HexaTier , a company I spoke with last year (as of this writing, the HexaTier product was no longer available per their website). Operating Systems/Applications. Massimo Re Ferre takes a stab at explaining containerd in plain words.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

So, 2021 is one of those years and many security researchers many companies. These are all basically network attacks, enabled by poorly configured IoT devices for true IoT hacking, I'm thinking you're going to need a bit more than a Kali Linux box on your side. Is that a traditional networking attack, or is that an IoT attack?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

So, 2021 is one of those years and many security researchers many companies. These are all basically network attacks, enabled by poorly configured IoT devices for true IoT hacking, I'm thinking you're going to need a bit more than a Kali Linux box on your side. Is that a traditional networking attack, or is that an IoT attack?

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Jeda Networks describes themselves as a “software-defined storage networking” company. Diablo was a new company to me; I hadn’t heard of them before their PR firm contacted me about a meeting while at VMworld. HyTrust is a company with whom I’ve been in contact for several years now (since early 2009).

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2022

Frank, now the chief innovation officer and co founder of Tidal Security, returns to The Hacker Mind to discuss the ATT&CK, only this time from the perspective of his new company. I’m reminded of when I trained to use Kali Linux. These could be in the operating system, or it could be a third party that's been added.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

Steve Grobman, CTO with Intel’s security group had this to say: CNBC: Yeah, so I think that nothing is ever impossible. But I think we also need to understand that the transportation industry, especially the aviation industry, is world class in setting up their systems for redundancy for security.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 4, 2021

Recently they provided data from 29 companies, and how they would defend against carbon AK and fin seven, but they represent results from a sterile environment. Similarly, they are known to do elaborate scripting techniques, leverage exploits after access or use anti-EDR capabilities such as rootkits and boot kits. It's supposed to be.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 4, 2021

Recently they provided data from 29 companies, and how they would defend against carbon AK and fin seven, but they represent results from a sterile environment. Similarly, they are known to do elaborate scripting techniques, leverage exploits after access or use anti-EDR capabilities such as rootkits and boot kits. It's supposed to be.

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