Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Open source has become so critical to so many aspects of our computing infrastructure. I recently stumbled across Ricardo Sueiras’ “AWS open source news and updates” posts. Operating Systems/Applications. Something about Linux, and Fedora in particular, just keeps drawing me back.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The speaker for the session is Vin Sharma, who helps lead open source software strategies at Intel. The focus of this session, as you can tell from the title, is on security and trust (presumably talking about how to leverage Intel TXT with OpenStack). Sharma reviews again some of the ODCA cloud computing usage models.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

This popular gathering is designed to enable dialogue about business and technical strategies to leverage today’s big data platforms and applications to your advantage. Chief Technologist, Intel Federal LLC, Intel Corporation. Here are the details: Interact with your colleagues at the 4th Annual Cloudera Federal Forum.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Check out this write-up. Think PDF files are safe? Think again. Read more about it on the Isovalent blog.

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Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

In the plethora of announcements, what stands out for me is the increasing clarity of the emerging platforms battle, which is happening on two levels: mobile operating system and applications. The open-sourcing of Symbian earlier this month and the announcement this week of Symbian ^3 , which offers a very rich interactive platform.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Jake Bennett discusses strengthening your AWS security posture by protecting application credentials and rotating EC2 and IAM keys. In case you’re interested, here’s more details on CVE-2016-5195 , aka “Dirty Cow,” and how it might be used to allow a user to escape from a Linux container (like a Docker container).

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

To help resolve this issue, Cumulus Networks (and possibly Metacloud, I’m not sure of their involvement yet) has release an open source project called vxfld. Is Intel having second thoughts about software-defined infrastructure? Preston Bannister took a look at cloud application backup in OpenStack. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Cossack Labs recently released Acra , a database encryption suite designed to protect applications against data leaks by providing strong encryption. Acra is open source and available via GitHub. Here’s a post outlining some of VMware’s more prominent open source projects in the “cloud-native” space. and vSphere.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 18, 2020

The Intel FDIV bug that caused a recall on Intel processors. The GNU C Library (glibc) is the most common open source C library and is used on most Linux systems. Further reading: Glibc source that shows how long doubles are represented for various architectures. Want to Learn More About Zero-Days?

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 18, 2020

The Intel FDIV bug that caused a recall on Intel processors. The GNU C Library (glibc) is the most common open source C library and is used on most Linux systems. Further reading: Glibc source that shows how long doubles are represented for various architectures. Floating Point Arithmetic.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 18, 2020

The Intel FDIV bug that caused a recall on Intel processors. The GNU C Library (glibc) is the most common open source C library and is used on most Linux systems. Further reading: Glibc source that shows how long doubles are represented for various architectures. Floating Point Arithmetic.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

News in the OpenStack space hasn’t been so good recently (Intel pulling out of OSIC, various companies laying off folks, other “pure play” companies shifting focus away from OpenStack), but here’s one architect’s perspective on what you may still want to attend the OpenStack Summit. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

with the Floodlight open source controller. Intel announced the E5 2600 v2 series of CPUs back at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 (you can follow my IDF 2013 coverage by looking at posts with the IDF2013 tag ). Operating Systems/Applications. is needed in order to see broader adoption of OpenFlow.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

Calderon: Paulino Calderon, I'm a senior application security consultant with Websec. So if you already have a background and network testing, that might be the place to start if you have a background in web application security. Woods: My name is Beau Woods, I'm a cyber safety advocate with, Iamthecavalry.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

Calderon: Paulino Calderon, I'm a senior application security consultant with Websec. So if you already have a background and network testing, that might be the place to start if you have a background in web application security. Woods: My name is Beau Woods, I'm a cyber safety advocate with, Iamthecavalry.

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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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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).

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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. Mark Ermolov discusses a vulnerability in the ROM (read-only memory) of the Intel Converged Security and Management Engine (CSME). Good stuff here!

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Intel has finally started shipping silicon photonics gear, according to this report from El Reg (news coming out of IDF16). I predicted a couple of years ago that Intel SGX (Software Guard Extensions) was going to be HUGE (see here ). Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Then again, what do I know?

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Dataconomy

JUNE 22, 2023

It’s a robust linguistic model with several potential applications, such as content generation, language translation, creative writing, and it can answer your every question without the need for jailbreak. Visit Intel’s website and conduct a search for your processor’s name to see if it supports AVX2.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 17, 2017

Shifting gears a bit, Golub talks a bit more about the changes over the last 3 years in regards to Docker (the open source project) itself. Lots of different frameworks, lots of different applications, lots of different databases…all this freedom of choice creates challenges to security. to the stage.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 3, 2016

Alban Crequy has a post on using Linux queueing disciplines (qdiscs, for short) to help with testing application behavior under degraded network conditions. Kevin Houston has a write-up on the recent Intel “Broadwell” announcement that provides details on the latest CPU family. Operating Systems/Applications. Good stuff.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

I’m back home in Denver after spending a few days in San Francisco at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013, so I thought I’d take a few minutes to sit down and share a summary of the event and my thoughts. Enhancing OpenStack with Intel Technologies for Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud: [link].

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

These articles are a bit long in the tooth, but CSS Corp has a useful series of articles on bundling various Linux distributions for use with OpenStack: bundling CentOS , bundling CentOS with VNC , bundling Debian , and bundling OpenSUSE. Operating Systems/Applications. Why is this important? Ben Armstrong shows how here.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2022

I’m reminded of when I trained to use Kali Linux. In some cases they’re taking open source, community-based tools and leveraging them in creative new ways against common threats. Kali is a swiss army knife of useful tools. But the overwhelming number of tools is daunting. There are the vendors, right?

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ForAllSecure

MAY 4, 2021

But I know deception technologies, I know that reach and ATT&CK simulation tools use it, I know that that threat intel platforms use it, there's the number of people that use ATT&CK in this field is much greater than the people that don't at this point. There's a lot of research that goes into it. It's supposed to be.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 4, 2021

But I know deception technologies, I know that reach and ATT&CK simulation tools use it, I know that that threat intel platforms use it, there's the number of people that use ATT&CK in this field is much greater than the people that don't at this point. There's a lot of research that goes into it. It's supposed to be.

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