Scott Lowe

JANUARY 15, 2021

From early December 2020, there’s also this reminder about the security updates released by VMware to address a zero-day vulnerability in several products. Operating Systems/Applications. Ryan Blunden has authored a fairly comprehensive piece on environment variables in Linux and macOS.

Linux 60

Linux Firewall Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

In this Technology Short Take, I’ve gathered some links for you covering topics like Azure and AWS networking, moving from macOS to Linux (and back again), and more. These are older posts, from August 2020, and I honestly don’t know if the vulnerability still exists (or if it has been patched). Networking.

Linux 60

Linux Hardware Network Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Here’s number 43 , from 9 November 2020. Operating Systems/Applications. You may have heard of eBPF, the Linux technology that is reshaping Linux applications (and in some ways reshaping Linux itself). Something about Linux, and Fedora in particular, just keeps drawing me back.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2020

Coming from a workflow that involves writing many custom harnesses for software libraries (which Mayhem also supports), this has been a delightful experience and it has allowed me to set up targets for dozens of OpenWRT applications in just weeks, and more vulnerability disclosures are forthcoming. both released on February 1st 2020.

Network 59

Network System Data Software 59

ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2020

Coming from a workflow that involves writing many custom harnesses for software libraries (which Mayhem also supports), this has been a delightful experience and it has allowed me to set up targets for dozens of OpenWRT applications in just weeks, and more vulnerability disclosures are forthcoming. both released on February 1st 2020.

Network 52

Network System Data Software 52

ForAllSecure

MARCH 25, 2020

Coming from a workflow that involves writing many custom harnesses for software libraries (which Mayhem also supports), this has been a delightful experience and it has allowed me to set up targets for dozens of OpenWRT applications in just weeks, and more vulnerability disclosures are forthcoming. both released on February 1st 2020.

Network 52

Network System Data Software 52

Scott Lowe

JULY 17, 2020

This is a great read overall, but one sentence in particular really caught my eye: “30 years ago I was able to write a complete multitasking operating system in Z80 assembly code. Jon Langemak is blogging again, and he jumps back into the “blogging saddle” with a post on working with tc on Linux systems.

Linux 60

Linux Apple Operating Systems Policies 60

The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2020

This is the best Chromebook of 2020 so far Several Chromebooks came out this year vying to become the best “premium” Chromebook of 2020. By unveiling the Galaxy and the C436 at CES 2020, the companies essentially posed the question: can a Chromebook be worth $1,000? The first is its 3:2 display.

Storage 82

Storage System Windows Examples 82

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 11, 2022

Many developers faced difficulties porting applications developed for a particular computing environment decades ago. Each container leverages a shared operating system kernel and encapsulates everything needed to run an application (application code, dependencies, environment variables, application runtimes, libraries, system tools etc.)

Operating Systems 90

Operating Systems Applications Enterprise Enterprise 90

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

I think a fair number of folks may not be aware that the Nginx ingress controller for Kubernetes—both the community version and the Nginx-maintained open source version—do suffer from timeouts and errors resulting from changes in the back-end application’s list of endpoints (think pods being added or removed).

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Disaster Recovery Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 19, 2020

This article from Carlos Fenollosa talks about his experience with a new 2020 MacBook Pro compared to his 2013-era MacBook Air. This article explains how to use a “stacked filesystem” encryption solution named eCryptfs to encrypt directories on Linux. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

Linux 60

Linux Intel Hardware Storage 60

ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

We just want to make sure that we help to bring some smart people that know how these things can be exploited and put them in contact with people that are designing these systems just to make sure that everything is in fact safe. Vamosi: So at a lot of hacking conference I go to, I have a laptop running Linux. Yeah, let's do it.

Airlines 52

Airlines Government Security Conference 52