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Modernizing the mainframe for the digital era

CIO Business Intelligence

I’m a banking technologist,” says the CIO for retail, business, and digital banking at M&T Bank. He’s doing just that on the bank’s IBM Z system mainframes, for which the bank has written some 10 million lines of code over the years. Each houses an IBM z15 system. M&T Bank.

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Report Reveals Top Cyber Threats, Trends of 2023 First Half

SecureWorld News

After a brief hiatus, Emotet threat actors resumed their operations in early March 2023. Emotet, originally a banking trojan, has transformed into a versatile piece of malware that relies on massive spam email campaigns. It's estimated LockBit had nearly 1,100 victims in 2022 alone.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

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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Technology Short Take #81

Scott Lowe

Humair Ahmed of VMware shares some details on a new control plane resiliency feature recently added to VMware NSX: Controller Disconnected Operation (CDO) mode. Here’s a handy list of deprecated Linux network commands and their replacements. Konstantin Ryabitsev has a series going on securing a SysAdmin Linux workstation.

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Technology Short Take #39

Scott Lowe

Ethan Banks also muses on the need for abstraction. Operating Systems/Applications. Test your knowledge of UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems by seeing how many of these less commonly used UNIX commands you recognize. I’d love to hear others’ thoughts on this. Read part 1 here and part 2 here.

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Technology Short Take 125

Scott Lowe

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Kornelis Sietsma looks at the options for working with multiple git identities on a single system.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: So a vulnerable version of Bash provided an attacker the ability to pass untrusted code to other systems and processes. It’s like the operating system left the front door wide open to attackers. One of the more important features of any operating system is its shell. How did this happen?