CTOvision

APRIL 20, 2014

Related articles. Analysis Big Data CTO CRAN Linux Microsoft Windows Open Source Operating Systems R Unix Windows' The powerful guidance in the help section can walk you through an introduction to R and have you up and working with real world problems in no time at all. is released! (r-bloggers.com). QuantLib 1.4

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CTOvision

JUNE 11, 2015

Craig Federighi, Apple's senior VP of software engineering, has just demoed the new in OS X and iOS 9 operating systems. There are many more updates with the new OS X and iOS 9 operating systems. Related articles. As open source code, Apple's Swift language could take flight (pcworld.com).

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Operating Systems Open Source Apple Tools 150

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In any case, I’ve spent the last month collecting links to articles and tutorials from around the web on all the various technologies that us IT folk are likely to encounter in our day-to-day adventures. Looks like some significant bandwidth increases could be on the horizon; see this article for more details. Using Auth0?

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

Operating Systems/Applications Here’s one person’s take on sudo for Windows. David Both has an article on using systemd journals for troubleshooting. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management Mina Abadir shares some experiences around migrating from PlanetScale to Amazon Aurora. Rory McCune explains Kubernetes authentication.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 30, 2023

’s lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI over their use of its articles in GPT-4 and other AI models. ” The need for strong open-source models: “The consolidation of power in AI is a huge risk. The countervailing forces are, number one, open source models. Related coverage on GeekWire: NYT v.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

This is the last Technology Short Take of 2021, so hopefully I’ll close the year out “with a bang” with this collection of links and articles on various technology areas. This is useful, in my opinion, because now platform operators have a “starting point” on the specific threats they need to try to mitigate.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

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. This is a thorny topic full of design considerations, and this AWS article discusses a few of them. Servers/Hardware.

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Network World

APRIL 5, 2017

A critical vulnerability in the widely used Xen hypervisor allows attackers to break out of a guest operating system running inside a virtual machine and access the host system's entire memory. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here The new vulnerability affects Xen 4.8.x, x, and 4.4.x

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Virtualization Operating Systems Open Source Data Center 60

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! This article on using osquery for behavioral detection of macOS malware was an interesting read. Read this article and you will be enlightened.

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Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This article provides a few practical examples of how using VPC Endpoints to reduce network traffic moving through NAT Gateways can help save money. Rory McCune has a series of articles on PCI compliance in containerized and Kubernetes environments. food references in the title of this article are almost too much.

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Network World

APRIL 13, 2017

Samsung has had enough struggles with Tizen , the open-source operating system it is positioning as an alternative to Android. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here But now Tizen is being blasted by a security expert for being full of egregious security flaws and sloppy programming.

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Network World

JUNE 22, 2016

In a world where any new software project is built in large part on existing third-party code, finding and patching vulnerabilities in popular open-source libraries is vital to creating reliable and secure applications. Libarchive is an open-source library first created for FreeBSD, but since ported to all major operating systems.

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Network World

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Cisco Systems' Talos team has developed an open-source tool that can protect the master boot record of Windows computers from modification by ransomware and other malicious attacks. The tool, called MBRFilter , functions as a signed system driver and puts the disk's sector 0 into a read-only state.

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Tools Open Source Operating Systems Windows 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2022

I particularly like how the authors of this post on the principle of ephemerality included a “homework/call to action” section for each of the major areas discussed in the article. Operating Systems/Applications. Paul Johnston explains why he believes serverless systems aren’t software systems.

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System Open Source Cloud Policies 79

ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

It’s time to evolve beyond the UNIX operating system. So while I was editing this podcast on self-healing operating systems, I was reminded of an article that I never finished for Fobes.com. It’s a radical rethinking of how we even view our current choices of UNIX-derived operating systems.

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Operating Systems System Open Source Applications 40

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

I have a few more links than normal this time around, although I didn’t find articles in a couple categories. Don’t worry—I’ll keep my eyes peeled and my RSS reader ready to pull in new articles in those categories for next time. Sander Rodenhuis wrote an article on security policies in Kubernetes.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been collecting articles I wanted to share with readers on major areas in technology: networking, security, storage, virtualization, cloud computing, and OSes/applications. This particular Technology Short Take is a tad heavy on cloud computing, but there’s a decent mix of other articles as well.

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Programming Policies Network Cloud 96

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. Virtualization.

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Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

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. This is a thorny topic full of design considerations, and this AWS article discusses a few of them. Servers/Hardware.

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This is a slightly older article (from January of this year) in which Josh Saul of Hedgehog pays homage to the achievements of Cumulus Networks in the open networking movement. Michael Kashin has a good post on source IP address selection in Linux. Exploiting cloud VMs via a remote serial/console service?

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Vmware Network Hardware Cloud 74

Kitaboo

MAY 23, 2023

Whether you’re a curious tech enthusiast, a software developer, or an industry professional, this article is packed with valuable insights and knowledge to satisfy your thirst for understanding software-based DRM. Can software-based DRM be used in open-source software? Table of Contents: What is Software-based DRM?

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Software Software Licensing eBook 78

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 15, 2021

This article by Joshua Fox outlines how and when to use each of the various types of firewalls offered by AWS. The popular open source cryptography library known as Bouncy Castle has uncovered a severe authentication bypass vulnerability. More details are available in this article. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Linux Firewall Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Thanks to this article , that oversight is now corrected. Oh, and the article shares a handy Python script to help implement bogon filtering in NSX-T. Components involved include the open source Kuma service mesh (in turn leveraging Envoy), anycast BGP, and mutual TLS (mTLS). Seriously.). Servers/Hardware.

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Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

There will be a longer gap than usual before the next Tech Short Take (more details to come on Monday), but in the meantime here’s some articles and links to feed your technical appetite. Michael Allen published an article on weaponizing the Yubikey. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Servers/Hardware.

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Linux Dell Open Source Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

I mean, don’t you want to spend this weekend catching up on some technology-related articles instead of cooking on the grill and gathering with friends and family? Still, for those who need a little technology fix over the weekend, hopefully I’ve included something useful in the list of articles below. I certainly hope not!

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Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

This article contains some good information on IPv6 for those who are just starting to get more familiar with it, although toward the end it turns into a bit of an advertisement. Warning: I’m not sure the configuration as described in the article will actually work, but the concept is sound.) Operating Systems/Applications.

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

These areas of IT include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Sign up here for those links: Information Technology Articles. Find the links to these blogs in the descriptions below.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

I’d never heard of Pipy before seeing it in this article , but it look like it could be quite useful for a number of use cases. Tetragon is Isovalent’s newly open-sourced security framework. Rob Salmond has a good article on Prometheus service discovery, Istio, and mTLS. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 74

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Open source has become so critical to so many aspects of our computing infrastructure. This article is chock-full of useful information that, typically, can only be gathered from direct experience (like the note on using istioctl instead of the Istio Operator to avoid an issue when upgrading from 1.6 Good stuff here!

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Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

I have, however, finally managed to pull together this list of links and articles from around the Internet, and I hope that something I’ve included here proves useful to readers. This article discusses four open source secrets management tools. ” Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Here’s another collection of articles and blog posts about some of the common technologies that modern IT professionals will typically encounter. Brian Boucheron provides a great article on how to inspect and debug Kubernetes network primitives. Sathyajith Bhat covers five open source tools for container security.

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Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

I hope the collection of links and articles I’ve gathered for you contains something useful for you. 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. Networking.

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Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 1, 2019

Daniel Dib has a great article on how network engineers need to evolve. VyOS is an open source Linux-based network operating system.). Operating Systems/Applications. If you’re looking for a reasonably gentle introduction to the concept, check out this article. Networking. Virtualization.

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Operating Systems Authentication Network Open Source 60

Galido

OCTOBER 18, 2018

If you are reading this article, it means that you want to start studying programming. When programming applications for the operating system of Apple, iOS, and therefore to create apps for iPhone and iPad, you must use the Objective-C language. Kotlin is an open source language. Objective-C.

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Programming Operating Systems Open Source Applications 81

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 2, 2020

I’m back with another collection of articles on various data center technologies. This time around the content is a tad heavy on the security side, but I’ve still managed to pull in articles on networking, cloud computing, applications, and some programming-related content. More details are found in this article.

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Linux Programming Cloud Open Source 60

Galido

MAY 1, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Sign up here for those links: Information Technology Articles. Find the links to these blogs in the descriptions below.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

However, hopefully I’ve managed to gather together some articles with useful information for you. Biruk Mekonnen has an introductory article on using Netmiko for network automation. Acra is open source and available via GitHub. There’s some good information in this article; I recommend reading it. Networking.

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Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60