CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The most popular LLMs in the enterprise today are ChatGPT and other OpenAI GPT models, Anthropic’s Claude, Meta’s Llama 2, and Falcon, an open-source model from the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi best known for its support for languages other than English. Dig Security addresses this possibility in two ways.

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Open Source Training Enterprise Enterprise 139

Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

This Tech Short Take is a bit heavy on security-related links, but there’s still some additional content in a number of other areas, so you should be able to find something useful—or at least interesting—in here. Servers/Hardware Menno Finlay-Smits shares information on reducing fan noise on Intel NUCs.

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Linux Vmware Load Balancer Malware 112

SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The Center for Internet Security (CIS) recently published a report on securing RDP, and it includes a powerful statement on where we are in cyber history: "We are at a point in cybersecurity where offense must inform defense in order to help protect against the most prolific cyber threats to our environments.

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Security Open Source Report Internet 52

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 7, 2023

For the enterprise, planning edge strategies and reaping their rewards is often a complex and challenging process, with myriad applications to deploy, a proliferation of hardware devices to manage, multiple data types and sources to integrate, and significant security risks to avoid.

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Network Dell Survey Intel 105

Kitaboo

MAY 23, 2023

In this comprehensive guide, we will delve into the fascinating world of Digital Rights Management (DRM) and explore how it is implemented in software applications. Gone are the days of clunky hardware-based DRM solutions that relied on physical tokens or specialized hardware components.

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Software Software Licensing eBook 78

Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This week, Groq’s LPU astounded the tech community by executing open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) like Llama-2, which boasts 70 billion parameters, at an impressive rate of over 100 tokens per second. Furthermore, it demonstrated its prowess with Mixtral, achieving nearly 500 tokens per second per user.

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Energy Applications Hardware Training 91

CTOvision

AUGUST 13, 2013

WiFi, RFID, Z-Wave, Zigbee, Bluetooth, cordless phones, and many, many more applications and appliances operate on these frequency bands. In addition to the hardware, very effective and fairly robust software has been released as well (GnuRadio).

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Trends Wireless Hardware Conference 251

CTOvision

JANUARY 11, 2016

If those options weren’t enough, here comes the open hybrid cloud. An open hybrid cloud leverages the benefits of accessing data and processes across private and public implementations, while facilitating open source development. Providers are now offering services that combine IT assets in an open hybrid cloud.

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Cloud Open Source Applications Firewall 150

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Alejandro Villanueva shares 26 AWS security best practices to adopt in production. The open source ko project has applied to become a CNCF Sandbox project. Operating Systems/Applications. Mike McQuaid talks about entitlement in open source. Using Auth0? Career/Soft Skills.

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Open Source Apple Vmware Cloud 79

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Servers/Hardware. The Log4J vulnerability and associated exploits has been on many folks' minds, so it’s only natural that many security companies have been looking into how to mitigate this attack vector. Aqua Security has a write-up on some of their analysis here. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Open Source Virtualization Applications Security 94

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

These leaders succeed with these real-time AI capabilities in large part because of their ability to aggregate massive amounts of real-time data from customers, devices, sensors, or partners as it moves through applications. And they all rely on the open-source NoSQL database Apache Cassandra ®.

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Open Source Architecture Applications Data 52

The Verge

MAY 27, 2020

Microsoft is also promising to update this kernel through Windows Update, and it will be open source so developers can create their own WSL kernel and contribute changes. WSL 2 won’t include Linux GUI application support or GPU hardware acceleration just yet, as Microsoft is promising both of these features for future Windows updates.

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Linux Windows Open Source Microsoft 83

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

In the past, one option was to use open-source data analytics platforms to analyze data using on-premises infrastructure. Taking this a step further, organizations can achieve the holy grail of hybrid cloud with applications and data that can be moved, managed and secured seamlessly across locations to provide the best of both worlds.

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Data Dell Intel Artificial Intelligence 110

Kitaboo

MAY 19, 2020

The Open Source Foundation aims to develop technology for expediting the adoption of ePUB3 and the Open Web Platform by the Digital Publishing Industry. It strives to deliver leading-edge functionality that is fully specified, free, open, and interoperable. x, audiobooks, Web Pub, and image-based books such as Manga.

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Architecture eBook Open Source Applications 78

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 5, 2022

Just a few years ago, data scientists worked with the command line and a few good open source packages. The notebook code itself is open source, making it merely the beginning of a number of exciting bigger projects for curating data, supporting coursework, or just sharing ideas. The scale is also shifting.

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Tools Data Analysis Open Source 130

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. This post on using SPIFFE/SPIRE, Kubernetes, and Envoy together shows how to implement mutual TLS (mTLS) for a simple application. Operating Systems/Applications.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Servers/Hardware I must admit that I always wanted to have a Sun workstation, and I’ve had an interest in SunOS/Solaris for years (check out this link if you don’t believe me). Security Michael Tsai weighs in on the Microsoft signing key that was stolen, sharing several links with commentary on this matter.

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Vmware Network Hardware Cloud 74

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

I’ve got another collection of links to articles on networking, security, cloud, programming, and career development—hopefully you find something useful! Servers/Hardware What do you think of the ThinkPhone ? Security Adrian Mouat reviews some of the security-focused changes in Go 1.20.

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Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

Dataconomy

DECEMBER 25, 2023

The Flipper Zero, a tiny pen-testing device, has become a darling of the security community. It’s packed with tools for exploring hardware, software, and wireless protocols. While initially seen as a prank, the potential for more malicious applications loomed large. But like any powerful tool, it can be misused.

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Windows Linux Operating Systems Wireless 41

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

The collection of links shared below covers a fairly wide range of topics, from old Sun hardware to working with serverless frameworks in the public cloud. Servers/Hardware. John Gruber’s post on “Secure Intent” on Apple devices was, for me at least, an informative read. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Xavier Avrillier walks readers through using Antrea (a Kubernetes CNI built on top of Open vSwitch—a topic I’ve touched on a time or two) to provide on-premise load balancing in Kubernetes. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Operating Systems/Applications. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

GeekWire

JUNE 11, 2020

Seattle-based Wibotic says it’s secured $5.7 ” WiBotic’s power management software can work with the hardware to optimize battery use for whole fleets of robots, without a human ever having to handle a plug. For now, WiBotic is keeping its focus on business-to-business applications rather than consumer applications.

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Wireless System Hardware Applications 145

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Servers/Hardware. The big news in the hardware space recently was the article regarding the purported Chinese hardware supply chain attack. Of the (innumerable) articles commenting on the hardware hack, this article by Joe FitzPatrick and this ErrataSec article caught my eye. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

Aidan Steele examines how VPC sharing could potentially improve security and reduce cost. Servers/Hardware. The story of a developer deliberately polluting their open source projects—as outlined here for the “colors.js” Orca Security discusses the “Superglue” vulnerability in AWS Glue.

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Load Balancer Linux Intel Cloud 90

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

MARCH 2, 2009

In this environment, it sure is tempting to chuck Microsoft’s Office and web products and their complicated Enterprise and Select Agreements in favor of open source equivalents. Sure, you’ll say, Microsoft software is really prone to security flaws and attacks. We do need to examine alternatives and options.

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Open Source Microsoft Budget Government 28

SecureWorld News

MARCH 1, 2023

Scammers like to take shortcuts and know that it's easier to hoodwink people than it is to exploit software or hardware. Any organization with a well-guarded security perimeter is low-hanging fruit as long as its employees fall for phishing hoaxes. The human element plays an increasingly important role, as well, and for good reason.

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Training Malware Security Social 81

CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2016

From their manual that includes: Machine intelligence : Artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, including both core technologies and industry applications. New organizational models: Bringing software development methodologies to other applications (e.g., Media distribution: Over-the-top television.

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Research Artificial Intelligence Open Source Applications 150

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 15, 2021

The content this time around seems to be a bit more security-focused, but I’ve still managed to include a few links in other areas. Rory McCune points out that Kubernetes is a router , and users should not rely on the fact that pods are not accessible from the outside by default as any form of a security barrier. Networking.

Linux 60

Linux Firewall Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Researchers have uncovered a potential security flaw in Apple Silicon CPUs; more details in this 9to5Mac article. I’m not sure how I feel about security researchers calling this flaw “not that bad.” Operating Systems/Applications. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Kubernetes 1.24

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Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. This post on using SPIFFE/SPIRE, Kubernetes, and Envoy together shows how to implement mutual TLS (mTLS) for a simple application. Operating Systems/Applications.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Cloud Musings

MARCH 9, 2018

According to the former Equifax CEO’s testimony to Congress , one of the primary causes of this now infamous data breach was the company’s failure to patch a critical vulnerability in the open source Apache Struts Web application framework. A process to identify vulnerabilities in hardware, operating systems, and applications.

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Operating Systems Enterprise Enterprise Virtualization 79

CTOvision

JANUARY 25, 2016

As advanced applications are developed that leverage the capabilities that make Bitcoin possible, enterprise technologists will be able to tap into new capabilities for security and functionality. It was invented by Satoshi Nakamoto, who published the invention in 2008 and released it as open source software in 2009.

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Enterprise Enterprise Internet Network 150

CTOvision

OCTOBER 9, 2013

This year’s event is expected to draw record attendance, with well over 2,500 end users, business leaders, solution providers, and open source contributors for three days of tutorials, workshops and discussions about the tools and techniques that make data work. Join Talks and Tutorials with Cloudera Executives and Engineers.

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Big Data Strategy Data Open Source 182

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Vulnerability scanning is an important part of security as it can help organizations identify and fix vulnerabilities before they can be exploited by attackers. Vulnerability scanning can also help organizations comply with regulatory requirements for security. Web application vulnerability scan. What is Vulnerability Scanning?

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Authentication Applications Network Operating Systems 40

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Via the Kubernetes blog , Box announced it has open sourced a project called kube-iptables-tailer , which turns packet drops from iptables into Kubernetes events that can be logged for easier troubleshooting. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Who says you can’t please everyone all the time?

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Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Linux Academy

JUNE 4, 2019

The Serverless Framework is an open-source project that replaces traditional platforms (hardware, operating systems) with a platform that can run in a cloud environment. Data security is another concern. What is serverless framework? Why use it? BaaS (Backend as a Service) laid the groundwork for what was to come.

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Linux Cloud Architecture Open Source 92

ForAllSecure

MARCH 2, 2023

An API was the “interface” with your application programs. First generation of graphical user interfaces controlling hardware? These are the standards by which different applications and services share data and ensure streamlined experiences to users across the globe. Entering punch cards at a terminal?

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Open Source Data Applications Security 40