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Software Is Assembled

ForAllSecure

It's estimated that, 85% of modern applications are made up of third party components, and those third party components may include the free and open source software or commercial off the shelf software developed by external individuals or organizations. It is not out of laziness that third party code is used.

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Weekend Reading: Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases.

All Things Distributed

Soon after the launch of Amazon Relation Dabase Service (RDS) AWS customers were giving us feedback that they would love to migrate to RDS but what they would love even more was if we could also unshackle them from the high-cost, punitive licensing schemes that came with the proprietary databases.

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The Best eBook Platforms for the Post-Readium Era

Kitaboo

Anyone can also use the Readium source code without a commercial license. It’s totally free and permissively licensed. You will no longer need to pay any license fees like you had to do earlier. Readium strived to provide a solid foundation for an open source ePUB3 reader built on web kit. The Future.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Fuzzing Message Brokers

ForAllSecure

As I produce this episode, there's a dangerous new vulnerability known informally as Log4Shell, it’s a flaw in an open source Java logging library developed by the Apache Foundation and, in the hands of a malicious actor, could allow for remote code injection. Vamosi: The idea behind Open Source is great.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? In a moment I’ll tell you about a flaw discovered only through fuzz testing in a very old open source product. Vamosi: In the fall of 2014, Shellshock was publicly disclosed. This was the beginning of open source software.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? In a moment I’ll tell you about a flaw discovered only through fuzz testing in a very old open source product. Vamosi: In the fall of 2014, Shellshock was publicly disclosed. This was the beginning of open source software.

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IDF 2014 Day 1 Keynote

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog for the day 1 keynote at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014. Fisher reinforces Krzanich’s mention of OIC and Intel’s participation in creating open, royalty-free standards for compatibility and interoperability among the billions of devices in the IoT. license) and contributing relevant patents to the OIC.

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