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Technology Short Take 156

Scott Lowe

BPFDoor, as it is known, is a passive backdoor that allows threat actors to remotely connect to a Linux shell. Tetragon is Isovalent’s newly open-sourced security framework. 9to5Mac outlines some details on the so-called PACMAN attack against Apple’s M1 chips. Check out this write-up. Think PDF files are safe?

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Weekly Update 6-17-2019: All About Ansible

Linux Academy

Ansible is an open source tool that has been backed by Red Hat since 2015. But y ou can do all of that and more in our free Ansible Quick Start course on Linux Academy , right now. LPI Linux Essentials 1.6. Applying Signed URLs to Cloud Storage Objects. That’s where Ansible comes into play. New Releases.

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Technology Short Take 155

Scott Lowe

Researchers have uncovered a potential security flaw in Apple Silicon CPUs; more details in this 9to5Mac article. marks the first release of the open source container orchestration platform that is signed using Sigstore (more details here ). This will become even more useful, in my opinion, when Linux support is added.

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Technology Short Take 164

Scott Lowe

Back in October of last year, Tom Hollingsworth weighed in on Hedgehog , the networking company that has set out to commercialize SONiC, a Linux-based NOS used extensively in Azure. Jeff Johnson shows how to log some information being sent between macOS and Apple. Ah, the bygone sounds of yesteryear …what a blast from the past!

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Technology Short Take 152

Scott Lowe

Components involved include the open source Kuma service mesh (in turn leveraging Envoy), anycast BGP, and mutual TLS (mTLS). Rory McCune writes about a CVE in the Linux kernel that could allow for container escape in Kubernetes. A redesign for Apple’s long-stagnant System Preferences app? Yes, please.

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Technology Short Take 105

Scott Lowe

Apple’s response similarly denies the allegations in the report. Sathyajith Bhat covers five open source tools for container security. The folks at Platform9 recently open-sourced a tool called etcdadm (inspired by kubeadm ). Here’s a nice deep dive on Linux executables.

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Technology Short Take #63

Scott Lowe

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. Matt Oswalt recently unveiled (and open sourced) a framework called ToDD, which stands for “Testing on Demand: Distributed”. You may also find this (related) article on memory inside Linux containers to be helpful.

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