Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

Via Ivan Pepelnjak, I was pointed to Jon Langemak’s in-depth discussion of working with Linux VRFs. Sonia Cuff provides a set of links for detailed instructions on setting up VPN access from macOS to Microsoft Azure with Azure Active Directory authentication. I hope that you find something useful here. Networking. Programming.

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Linux Academy

MARCH 28, 2019

To ensure ongoing security site reliability engineers must work hand-in-hand with the CISO’s (Chief Information Security Officer) office to implement Kubernetes security. Kubernetes out-of-the-box doesn’t exactly default to a secure enterprise grade cluster. Implement Pod Security Policy. Server Hardening.

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Policies Linux Security Virtualization 68

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Along those lines, one of their latest articles discusses how to achieve identity-based mutual authentication leveraging eBPF. 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.”

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

Redpill Linpro talks to readers about their new routers running Cumulus Linux. There’s a security vulnerability , so don’t let your smart home get hacked. I recently found this page , and thought it was a great idea—trying to bring improved security to the masses. I need to move it back to Windows from Linux.

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Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Milind Gunjan shares some tips for troubleshooting Linux bridged networking on a KVM host. Tim Hinrichs discusses securing the Kubernetes API with Open Policy Agent. Pod Security Policies (PSPs) are an important security feature in Kubernetes. This article discusses four open source secrets management tools.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 1, 2019

VyOS is an open source Linux-based network operating system.). 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. Go check out part 2. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Operating Systems Authentication Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 5, 2019

If you’re unfamiliar with public key infrastructure (PKI), digital certificates, or encryption, you may find this Linux Journal article helpful. 509v3 digital certificates, how they help enable asymmetric (public/private key) encryption, and the connection to Transport Layer Security (TLS). It provides the basics behind X.509v3

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In this episode I talk about how Heartbleed (CVE 2014-0160) was found and also interview Rauli Kaksonen, someone who was at Codenomicon at the time of its discovery and is now a senior security specialist at the University of Oulu in Finland, about how new security tools are still needed to find the next big zero day. Apple Podcasts.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In this episode I talk about how Heartbleed (CVE 2014-0160) was found and also interview Rauli Kaksonen, someone who was at Codenomicon at the time of its discovery and is now a senior security specialist at the University of Oulu in Finland, about how new security tools are still needed to find the next big zero day. Apple Podcasts.

Open Source 52

Open Source Tools Security Software 52

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). VMware open-sourced an identity and access management service called Lightwave ( project web site , GitHub repo ).

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In this episode I talk about how Heartbleed (CVE 2014-0160) was found and also interview Rauli Kaksonen, someone who was at Codenomicon at the time of its discovery and is now a senior security specialist at the University of Oulu in Finland, about how new security tools are still needed to find the next big zero day. Apple Podcasts.

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Open Source Tools Security Software 52

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

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. Networking Security Storage Virtualization Automation KVM Linux OpenStack OSS OVS vCloud VMware'

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

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). VMware open-sourced an identity and access management service called Lightwave ( project web site , GitHub repo ).

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Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Dataconomy

AUGUST 14, 2023

This open-source tool reached its funding goal on Kickstarter in 2020, underlining its appeal to a niche community. While it can read NFC cards, decoding the card’s encrypted security code (known by various three-letter abbreviations like CSC, CVV, CVC, CAV) is beyond its reach. What is Flipper Zero?

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Wireless Banking Programming System 69

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

In addition to trust, Intel has done work on security with OpenStack. Intel also helped update the OpenStack Security Guide ([link]. Intel has also developed something called COSBench, which is an open source tool that can be used to measure cloud object storage performance. Where is Intel IT Open Cloud headed?

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

As I produce this episode, there's a dangerous new vulnerability known informally as Log4Shell, it’s a flaw in an open source Java logging library developed by the Apache Foundation and, in the hands of a malicious actor, could allow for remote code injection. Vamosi: The idea behind Open Source is great.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. How then does one start securing it? In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. How then does one start securing it? In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication.

Internet 52

Internet Research Security Tools 52

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 22, 2013

I’m assuming that you’ve already gone through the process of getting KVM installed on your Linux host; if you need help with that, a quick Google search should turn up plenty of “how to” articles (it’s basically a sudo apt-get install kvm operation). Next, you need to authenticate the hypervisor to NVP.

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Transportation Linux Network Virtualization 60

Linux Academy

DECEMBER 4, 2019

MAP for Windows provides prescriptive guidance, specialist consulting support, tooling, training, and services credits to help reduce the risk and cost of migrating to the cloud while providing pathways to modernize your Windows Server workloads on cloud-native and open-source technologies. Read more: [link]. Read more: [link].

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

And my background is pretty straightforward with cyber security for the past 16 years on many different levels. Vamosi: At SecTor, an annual security conference in Toronto, Paua gave not one but two talks this year. The tools are open source, and Paula has a team of experts that helps build these tools.

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

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Linux Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Dataconomy

MAY 24, 2023

Efficiency in the context of blockchain encompasses various factors such as transaction throughput, scalability, consensus mechanisms, security, and energy consumption. Blockchain technology is a decentralized and distributed ledger system that allows for the secure and transparent recording of transactions across multiple computers or nodes.

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Network Open Source IBM Applications 59

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. The first aspect that Hykes discusses is security, and how moving to production securely is difficult. The core of secure orchestration within Docker is SwarmKit. to the stage.

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Linux Open Source Windows Security 60

Galido

JUNE 2, 2016

Keeping track of passwords and making them secure is startlingly simple with Dashlane’s free password manager. Automatically import your passwords from Chrome or any other browser into your secure password vault. Outstanding authentication through facial biometrics, including liveness detection. Secure password sharing.

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Open Source Linux Authentication Security 60

ForAllSecure

MARCH 30, 2022

In this episode I’ll talk with two security researchers who simply followed the rabbit. Vamosi: Cloud security is relatively new and as such it probably hasn’t gotten as much attention as it deserves. It was a pretty serious vulnerability; a 9 out of 10 in security. And I'm a security researcher at Wiz.

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Firewall Virtualization Authentication Linux 52

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

Bruce Schneier asks the question that society has yet to answer (and may be afraid to answer): “…do we prioritize security over surveillance, or do we sacrifice security for surveillance?”. Mike Foley recently published a two-part series on two factor authentication (2FA) for vSphere ( part 1 is here ; part 2 is here ).

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Vmware Linux Hardware Network 60

Phil Windley

MARCH 13, 2020

Summary: The Sovrin Identity Metasystem is based on a sophisticated stack of protocols, implemented in open-source code, backed and supported by hundreds of organizations, large and small, around the world. DIDs resolve to DID Documents. A DID Document is associated with exactly one DID.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

So we have far less users for Mac and Linux than we have on Windows. Vamosi: Most antivirus products are found on Windows, much less so on Mac and Linux. Vamosi: Zmap is a very fast open source, TCP, UDP and ICMP scanner. It infects Linux, BSD, Solaris, and others.

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Internet Malware Research Linux 52

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Hashimoto also discusses HashiCorp’s commitment to open source software and the desire to properly balance commercial (paid) products versus free (open source) projects. With Vault Enterprise, Sentinel policies could control access to requests, tokens, identities, or multi-factor authentication (MFA).

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

Early Computer Hacking: 1950s & 1960s Hacking is a term that has been used to describe unauthorized access to computer systems or networks for various purposes, including stealing data, causing damage, or demonstrating security vulnerabilities. Computer security was in its infancy in the 60s.

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