Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Travis Downs explores a recent Intel microcode update that may have negatively impacted performance. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts.

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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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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. Mobile operating system. Which takes us to the issue of applications. Mobile applications. Last year $4.2

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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. AnandTech has some coverage of the latest Intel processor announcements , which totally flew by my radar. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

Tetragon is Isovalent’s newly open-sourced security framework. While his post specifically addresses the AWS CDK, I think that some of his conclusions could also be applicable to other “infrastructure-as- actual -code” tools like Pulumi. Operating Systems/Applications. Think again.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Companies can get around this by applying for a license — something that has allowed Intel, for instance, to continue working with Huawei. “I DJI’s drones benefit immensely from US-made software applications, but these are built on top of DJI’s own software development kit. At this point, we simply don’t have enough data.”.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

Guido Appenzeller—once my manager at VMware, now at Yubico—shared this article about the Cerberus banking trojan , which is apparently now able to steal two-factor authentication (2FA) tokens from the Google Authenticator application. Operating Systems/Applications. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The Intel Management Engine (ME) has received a bit of attention as a potential security vulnerability; in this article , authors Maxim Goryachy and Mark Ermolov expose some new concerns around the Intel ME and its undocumented Manufacturing Mode. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Good stuff!

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 13, 2023

The Critical Start Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) team analyzed a range of intelligence sources, such as customer data, open-source intelligence, vulnerability research, social media monitoring, and Dark Web monitoring to identify the most pressing cybersecurity threats of the first half of 2023.

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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. Adrian’s operational review readiness template is another great post as well. Operating Systems/Applications.

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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

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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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Jake Bennett discusses strengthening your AWS security posture by protecting application credentials and rotating EC2 and IAM keys. Intel has a tutorial series on Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX). I noted that a Vagrant provider for vRealize Automation was recently released as an open source project.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 3, 2016

The examples Phil uses include StackWise, Virtual Switching System, and Virtual Port Channels. Alban Crequy has a post on using Linux queueing disciplines (qdiscs, for short) to help with testing application behavior under degraded network conditions. Operating Systems/Applications. Highly recommended reading!

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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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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

APRIL 17, 2017

One use case mentioned is Intuit’s use of Docker, and Golub points out that the person responsible for running Intuit’s systems is confident enough in their systems that they’re attending DockerCon on Tax Day (when as many as 25 million tax returns are expected to be processed). to the stage. The answer? The result is the Moby project.

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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.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Operating Systems/Applications. I found this article on imperative vs. declarative system configuration is quite helpful in understanding Puppet’s declarative model. This VMware blog post helps explain the link between Puppet and vFabric Application Director, and why organizations may want to use both.

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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. I mean, I have this Cally box that I use for network systems, can I use that to attack an IoT system, Woods: I'd say start with what's most familiar most comfortable to you. Vamosi: The book Practical IoT Hacking is full of useful examples.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

Calderon: Paulino Calderon, I'm a senior application security consultant with Websec. I mean, I have this Cally box that I use for network systems, can I use that to attack an IoT system, Woods: I'd say start with what's most familiar most comfortable to you. Vamosi: The book Practical IoT Hacking is full of useful examples.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2022

In some cases they’re taking open source, community-based tools and leveraging them in creative new ways against common threats. Vamosi: In EP 49, I talked about Living off the Land, a attack strategy that uses existing applications on a victim’s machine, as opposed to downloading a new Zero Day or something cool like that.

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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.

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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.

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