Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Christian Kellner provides a brief reminder that not all USB-C ports are Thunderbolt ports, and updates everyone on the status of bolt (Linux utility for working with Thunderbolt ports and peripherals). Operating Systems/Applications. Highly recommended reading. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. A simple tip, yes, but useful!

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Vmware Authentication Virtualization Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Courtesy of Tigera, Alex Pollitt shares some guidelines on when Linux conntrack is no longer your friend. Apparently Dell’s new docking stations support firmware updates via Linux. Operating Systems/Applications. This article has good information on safely using /tmp and /var/tmp on systemd-powered Linux distributions.

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Linux Dell Open Source Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Along those lines, one of their latest articles discusses how to achieve identity-based mutual authentication leveraging eBPF. Operating Systems/Applications. For relevant storage news, I’d recommend having a look at J Metz’ Storage Short Take 42. Programming. Virtualization.

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Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Bruce Schneier writes about how some Chinese hackers are bypassing RSA software token authentication (the title is a bit more broad, implying other forms of two-factor authentication are affected, but the article focuses on attacks against the use of RSA software tokens). Operating Systems/Applications. Career/Soft Skills.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

Redpill Linpro talks to readers about their new routers running Cumulus Linux. Colleague and teammate Eric Shanks takes readers through what’s necessary to do Active Directory authentication for Kubernetes clusters. Operating Systems/Applications. I need to move it back to Windows from Linux. That’s cool.

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Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Let’s start with passing some JSON data to a REST API to authenticate. Example 1: Authenticating to OpenStack. Let’s say you’re working with an OpenStack-based cloud, and you need to authenticate to OpenStack using OpenStack Identity (“Keystone”). Example 2: Authenticating to VMware NSX.

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Authentication Vmware Examples Applications 93

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Erik Smith, notably known for his outstanding posts on storage and FCoE, takes a stab at describing some of the differences between SDN and network virtualization in this post. I came across this post on CloudFoundry’s User Account and Authentication Service (the UAA). Operating Systems/Applications. storage enhancements.

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

JUNE 9, 2014

Docker Hub will offer a registry for a comprehensive list of “Dockerized” applications (taking the place of the Docker Index, I assume), along with a management console, user authentication, an automated build service, the Docker Hub API, and collaboration tools to help users manage and share applications.

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Virtualization Linux Applications Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Good stuff Juan! Virtualization.

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Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 1, 2019

VyOS is an open source Linux-based network operating system.). Part 1 covers auto-unsealing Vault ; part 2 covers authenticating to Vault using instance metadata ; and part 3 discusses authenticating to Vault using an IAM user or role. Operating Systems/Applications. Go check out part 2. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Operating Systems Authentication Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 5, 2019

If you’re unfamiliar with public key infrastructure (PKI), digital certificates, or encryption, you may find this Linux Journal article helpful. Lennart Koopmann provides a guide to Yubikey authentication in the real world. Operating Systems/Applications. It provides the basics behind X.509v3 Kubernetes 1.15 Kubernetes 1.15

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Storage Hardware Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Good stuff Juan! Virtualization.

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Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Milind Gunjan shares some tips for troubleshooting Linux bridged networking on a KVM host. Many organizations prefer to use two-factor authentication (2FA) to help protect their systems. ” Operating Systems/Applications. configurations. Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time around! Nothing this time. Let me know on Twitter.

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Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #51, another collection of posts and links about key data center technologies like networking, virtualization, cloud management, and applications/operating systems. Flavio Leitner has a nice article comparing OVS internal ports with Linux veth devices. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Linux Academy

DECEMBER 4, 2019

You only pay for the resources needed to run your applications and CloudWatch monitoring fees. You will be able to create routes that map to multiple disparate backends, define & apply authentication and authorization to routes, set up rate limiting, and use custom domains to route requests to the APIs. Learn more here: [link].

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Windows Authentication Meeting Resources 12

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. Chris Wahl touches on the topic of using GitHub personal tokens to authenticate to HashiCorp Vault. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Linux Vmware Authentication Storage 60

ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication. Calderon: Paulino Calderon, I'm a senior application security consultant with Websec. It's still a threat.

Internet 52

Internet Research Security Tools 52

ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication. Calderon: Paulino Calderon, I'm a senior application security consultant with Websec. It's still a threat.

Internet 52

Internet Research Security Tools 52

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

Security Jeff Warren discusses a potential way for malicious players to bypass multi-factor authentication, aka the “Pass the Cookie” attack. Diego Crespo talks about PowerShell on Linux and his experience with it. Storage This is a good (albeit slightly dated) overview of EBS volume types.

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IPv6 Linux Tools Network 74

Dataconomy

MAY 24, 2023

It is the underlying technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, but its applications extend beyond digital currencies. Beyond cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology has applications in various industries and use cases. At its core, a blockchain is a chain of blocks, where each block contains a set of transactions.

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Network Open Source IBM Applications 59

The Verge

MARCH 5, 2021

It’s available across iOS and Android; it has native desktop applications on Windows, macOS, and Linux; and it also integrates with every major browser including Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge. You also have the option of protecting your Bitwarden account with two-factor authentication to provide an extra layer of security.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

And how many other serious vulnerabilities like Heartbleed are lurking unknown in the applications we use everyday, in the websites we depend on, and in the devices we carry. And traditional application security tools like static analysis, they couldn’t find it. I mean, it was open source, right? What is Fuzz testing?

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

And how many other serious vulnerabilities like Heartbleed are lurking unknown in the applications we use everyday, in the websites we depend on, and in the devices we carry. And traditional application security tools like static analysis, they couldn’t find it. I mean, it was open source, right? What is Fuzz testing?

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Open Source Tools Security Software 52

ForAllSecure

MARCH 30, 2022

This means that if you're an Azure customer, you can use CosmosDB to manage your data for applications. This service holds metadata about the currently running virtual machine instance, such as storage, network configuration and more. Vamosi: IPTables is a way to configure the IP packet filter rules of the Linux kernel firewall.

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Firewall Virtualization Authentication Linux 52

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

And how many other serious vulnerabilities like Heartbleed are lurking unknown in the applications we use everyday, in the websites we depend on, and in the devices we carry. And traditional application security tools like static analysis, they couldn’t find it. I mean, it was open source, right? What is Fuzz testing?

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Open Source Tools Security Software 52

Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

This November at Linux Academy, we have loads of new content coming your way! To all of our learners who may know someone who wants to learn more about the cloud or Linux, but they have been on the fence about signing up for a free community edition account, then tell them that right now is a great time for them to sign up!

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Linux Systems Administration Cloud Google 16

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

Mike Foley recently published a two-part series on two factor authentication (2FA) for vSphere ( part 1 is here ; part 2 is here ). Operating Systems/Applications. This Yelp Engineering blog post talks about one of these unintended side effects (processes running as PID 1 are treated differently by the Linux kernel).

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Vmware Linux Hardware Network 60