Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2023

This could be bad—a wormable vulnerability that could allow attackers to remotely execute code by exploiting potentially any Windows application protocol that provides authentication, including (potentially) SMTP or HTTP. Operating Systems/Applications. Get more details in this article. Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

Network 74

Network Vmware Cloud Operating Systems 74

Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #51, another collection of posts and links about key data center technologies like networking, virtualization, cloud management, and applications/operating systems. Along with Docker, VMware worked with the Center for Internet Security (CIS) to prepare a security benchmark for Docker 1.6

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Along those lines, one of their latest articles discusses how to achieve identity-based mutual authentication leveraging eBPF. Operating Systems/Applications. The world of virtualization—nay, more than just virtualization—will be forever changed with the announcement of Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware.

Virtualization 79

Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

Scott Lowe

JULY 5, 2019

Lennart Koopmann provides a guide to Yubikey authentication in the real world. Operating Systems/Applications. Mischa Buijs reviews using a SATADOM boot device with VMware ESXi. This article talks about a recent vulnerability in the kubectl command, which is typically used to interact with Kubernetes clusters.

Storage 60

Storage Hardware Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 13, 2018

Chris Hein shows how to use the Heptio Authenticator with kops to link Kubernetes cluster authentication to AWS IAM. Operating Systems/Applications. Cormac Hogan walks through setting up the Minio object store on top of VMware vSAN. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization. on a vSphere 6.7

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Many organizations prefer to use two-factor authentication (2FA) to help protect their systems. Bahubali (Bill) Shetti walks through analyzing the cost of a self-managed Kubernetes cluster on AWS using VMware CloudHealth. ” Operating Systems/Applications. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Open Source 60

Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

It seems clear to me that distributed storage systems are going to be the de facto way to build storage systems moving forward, which obviously has significant implications for networking, compute, power, and environmental factors. Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Some folks from Nicira (now part of VMware) recently published a blog post discussing the OVSDB IETF draft (see here ). I came across this post on CloudFoundry’s User Account and Authentication Service (the UAA). Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. storage enhancements.

Storage 92

Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

It seems clear to me that distributed storage systems are going to be the de facto way to build storage systems moving forward, which obviously has significant implications for networking, compute, power, and environmental factors. Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not.

Devops 60

Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 31, 2022

Indeed, passwordless authentication is worth celebrating, but every EOL requires a strategic plan to ensure a graceful transition. With the convenience and ease of passwordless authentication, it’s now possible to smooth the transition for your customers enough to achieve 100% adoption. This article explains how. That’s lost revenue.

Authentication 93

Authentication Security Survey Education 93

Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

Chris Wahl touches on the topic of using GitHub personal tokens to authenticate to HashiCorp Vault. William Lam provides a sneak peek at deploying Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on vSphere and VMware Cloud on AWS. Operating Systems/Applications. I hope to publish something similar for “native” AWS soon.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

William Lam shares news about higher-capacity SODIMMs available for small or ultra small form factor systems. Security Jeff Warren discusses a potential way for malicious players to bypass multi-factor authentication, aka the “Pass the Cookie” attack. Ever wondered how much data you can store in a single S3 bucket?

IPv6 74

IPv6 Linux Tools Network 74

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

Mike Foley recently published a two-part series on two factor authentication (2FA) for vSphere ( part 1 is here ; part 2 is here ). VMware’s Cloud-Native Apps group recently released v0.8 Operating Systems/Applications. Although it’s not feature-complete (by a long shot), VMware recently open-sourced version 0.1

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 17, 2017

Hykes talks about the second challenge to moving into production securely: the diversity of infrastructure and operating systems (OSes) underneath Docker. After a bit of “technical difficulty” regarding his two-factor authentication to GitHub, Hykes finally gets into the LinuxKit repository and makes it public. The answer?

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Windows Security 60