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The Linux Migration: December 2018 Progress Report

Scott Lowe

In December 2016, I kicked off a migration from macOS to Linux as my primary laptop OS. Throughout 2017, I chronicled my progress and challenges along the way; links to all those posts are found here. Although I stopped the migration in August 2017, I restarted it in April 2018 when I left VMware to join Heptio.

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Launching an Open Source Book Project

Scott Lowe

In my list of planned 2017 projects , I mentioned that one thing I’d like to do this year is launch an open source book project. licensed book project aimed at providing “how to” recipes for Open vSwitch (OVS). Well, I’m excited to announce The Open vSwitch Cookbook , an Apache 2.0-licensed

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Technology Short Take 88

Scott Lowe

Brendan Gregg has a pretty detailed write-up on migrating from Solaris to Linux (pertinent given the recent layoff of the majority of the Solaris developers). Joel Knight shares how he’s tried to blog more in 2017. If you’re not clear on the role/status of CRI-O, check out this article by Scott McCarty of Red Hat.

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UNCOVERING OPENWRT REMOTE CODE EXECUTION (CVE-2020-7982)

ForAllSecure

OpenWRT is a free, Linux-based operating system geared towards use in embedded devices in general and network routers in particular. 2 Depends: libc, libattr License: GPL-2.0-or-later It looks like the bug was introduced in February 2017, almost three years ago: [link]. Exploitation.

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Uncovering OpenWRT Remote Code Execution (CVE-2020-7982)

ForAllSecure

OpenWRT is a free, Linux-based operating system geared towards use in embedded devices in general and network routers in particular. 2 Depends: libc, libattr License: GPL-2.0-or-later It looks like the bug was introduced in February 2017, almost three years ago: [link]. Exploitation.

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Uncovering OpenWRT Remote Code Execution (CVE-2020-7982)

ForAllSecure

OpenWRT is a free, Linux-based operating system geared towards use in embedded devices in general and network routers in particular. 2 Depends: libc, libattr License: GPL-2.0-or-later It looks like the bug was introduced in February 2017, almost three years ago: [link]. Exploitation.

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A Reflection On ForAllSecure's Journey In Bootstrapping Behavior Testing Technology

ForAllSecure

All patents have been exclusively licensed to ForAllSecure. We are focusing on Linux today, as we believe it will be the best user experience out-the-door. The academic work also resulted in four US patents created by the founders and owned by Carnegie Mellon University: US 9,135,405; US 9,183,396; US 9,542,559; US 9,619,375.