Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

Redpill Linpro talks to readers about their new routers running Cumulus Linux. Servers/Hardware. This article is about hardware, just not the hardware I’d typically talk about in this section—instead, it’s about Philips Hue light bulbs. I need to move it back to Windows from Linux.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Courtesy of Tigera, Alex Pollitt shares some guidelines on when Linux conntrack is no longer your friend. Servers/Hardware. Apparently Dell’s new docking stations support firmware updates via Linux. 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

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

” Servers/Hardware. 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). Matt Oswalt shares some details on how NRE Labs implements “curriculum-as-code.”

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Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Along those lines, one of their latest articles discusses how to achieve identity-based mutual authentication leveraging eBPF. Servers/Hardware. The state of virtualization on Apple Silicon hardware has seen a few developments in recent days and weeks. network virtualization).

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Servers/Hardware. 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). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 1, 2019

VyOS is an open source Linux-based network operating system.). Servers/Hardware. 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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 5, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Although I’ve by and large moved away from Apple hardware (I still have a MacBook Pro running macOS that sees very little use, and a Mac Pro running Fedora), I did see this article regarding a new keyboard for the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. It provides the basics behind X.509v3

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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). Servers/Hardware. Nir Yechiel posted an article on using the Cumulus VX QCOW2 image with Fedora and KVM.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Milind Gunjan shares some tips for troubleshooting Linux bridged networking on a KVM host. Servers/Hardware. Many organizations prefer to use two-factor authentication (2FA) to help protect their systems. Via Ivan Pepelnjak’s site, Albert Siersema shares some information on using Ansible to automate 802.1x configurations.

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Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 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). Servers/Hardware. Nir Yechiel posted an article on using the Cumulus VX QCOW2 image with Fedora and KVM.

Devops 60

Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Servers/Hardware. I came across this post on CloudFoundry’s User Account and Authentication Service (the UAA). Only a true geek would be interested in this, but here’s some information on running OpenBSD in KVM on Linux. There’s a lot to digest there (for me, anyway, there is a lot to digest).

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

Flavio Leitner has a nice article comparing OVS internal ports with Linux veth devices. This topic is the subject of some debate given that some claim OVS internal ports perform much better than Linux veth devices. Servers/Hardware. Eric Gray has a nice write-up on using Lightwave for authentication with Photon.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Next, Intel talks about how they have worked to expose hardware features into OpenStack. This involves work in libvirt as well as OpenStack, so that OpenStack can be aware of CPU functionality (which, in turn, might allow cloud providers to charge extra for “premium images” that offer encryption support in hardware).

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This requires an increased level of expertise and know-how to deal with efficiently: Dependency on specific hardware features present on the physical device. This is a good target to look at because while it is a Linux firmware binary, it presents all of the challenges listed above. Is a MIPS Linux firmware. First look at httpd.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 15, 2020

This requires an increased level of expertise and know-how to deal with efficiently: Dependency on specific hardware features present on the physical device. This is a good target to look at because while it is a Linux firmware binary, it presents all of the challenges listed above. Is a MIPS Linux firmware. First look at httpd.

Programming 52

Programming Exercises Linux Authentication 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. When I started writing my first book when gadgets betray us, IoT was still known as hardware hacking, or embedded security.

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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. When I started writing my first book when gadgets betray us, IoT was still known as hardware hacking, or embedded security.

Internet 52

Internet Research Security Tools 52

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. Servers/Hardware. Chris Wahl touches on the topic of using GitHub personal tokens to authenticate to HashiCorp Vault. Nothing this time around.

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Linux Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

Servers/Hardware Kevin Houston provides some instructions on backing up the Dell PowerEdge MX7000 settings and configurations. Security Jeff Warren discusses a potential way for malicious players to bypass multi-factor authentication, aka the “Pass the Cookie” attack. Both are great reads.

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Kitaboo

MARCH 18, 2024

Cloud-based digital textbook solutions like KITABOO also mitigate the risk of data loss due to hardware failure or other unforeseen circumstances and provide authors with peace of mind and uninterrupted productivity. Here are some of its key features: It is compatible with Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Mike Foley recently published a two-part series on two factor authentication (2FA) for vSphere ( part 1 is here ; part 2 is here ). 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). Nothing this time around.

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Linux Academy

APRIL 11, 2019

Think about all the controls we have in place on our networks today: firewalls, authentication systems, intrusion detection and prevention systems (network- and host-based), router and switch security, operating system security, data encryption — the list goes on and on. Domain 7: Physical Security.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Vamosi: Virtual Machines are what just that; they’re software representations of hardware machines. They contain an operating system and they have confirmation for RAM and other hardware you may want to simulate. Knudsen: What was cool was that containers are so much lighter than virtual machines. Vamosi: So that is a problem.

Open Source 52

Open Source Software Software Applications 52

Scott Lowe

APRIL 17, 2017

This led Docker to work with a number of other companies to build a secure, lean, portable Linux subsystem. LinuxKit is a lean, portable, and secure Linux subsystem. Other companies involved in LinuxKit include IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and the Linux Foundation. The result of this effort is LinuxKit.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 10, 2021

You can't run an operating system if you're running like even real time Linux, you probably couldn't do a very good job of activating the cylinders on your, on your engine controller so even an operating system, it has limitations and so why even bother. Leale: they're way too slow to fire an engine. It has to be controlled by the vendor.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 25, 2022

At the time of this podcast, Lockbit accounts for 40% of the ransomware present today and it hits both Windows and Linux machines. I remember reading a report that Google had implemented hardware tokens, their entire employee, everybody has a hardware token. --[Music] --. In 2022, Lockbit became the most widely used ransomware.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

“Hacker” referred to people who explored the limits of computer technology and found ways to modify or improve computer hardware and software. He used a toy whistle from a cereal box to mimic the tone used by the phone company to authenticate calls. Hacking has also had a positive impact on the development of technology.

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