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Technology Short Take #63

Scott Lowe

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. At the recent OCP Summit, Microsoft introduced Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC). Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall.

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Technology Short Take #49

Scott Lowe

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. What does this mean? You’re welcome.

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Technology Short Take 139

Scott Lowe

In this post , Jakub Sitnicki digs way deep into the Linux kernel to uncover the answer to the question, “Why are there no entries in the conntrack table for SYN packets dropped by the firewall?” Linux malware is getting more sophisticated. ” Get ready to get nerdy! Servers/Hardware. Aye aye, Popeye!

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? Years ago, I was the lead security software reviewer at ZDNet and then at CNET. That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? Years ago, I was the lead security software reviewer at ZDNet and then at CNET. That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems.