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DDoS: Understand The Growing Threat From Botnet #14

CTOvision

These events are perpetrated by a collection or botnet of Internet facing devices that communicate with a command and control center for instructions. These events set new milestones for volumetric attacks and apparently allowed investigators to close in on the original author of Mirai. Thomas Pore.

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Technology Short Take 153

Scott Lowe

This article contains some good information on IPv6 for those who are just starting to get more familiar with it, although toward the end it turns into a bit of an advertisement. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? What happens to submarine cables when there are massive events, like a volcanic eruption?

Linux 74
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Product Review: Paessler PRTG Network Monitor

Galido

Extensive event logging. IPv6 support. As devices are discovered, probes will also detect the services and hardware it can monitor. PRTG offers different types of notifications such as email, push notifications, SMS, event log, syslog, SNMP trap, execute action/program, ticket assignment, sound alarm and more.

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Technology Short Take #77

Scott Lowe

Simon Leinen (from SWITCHengines) explains their use of IPv6 with OpenStack. Servers/Hardware. Sayli Karmarkar and Vinay Shah of Netflix describe Winston , “an event-driven diagnostic and remediation platform.” Basically, in a nutshell, Winston executes runbooks of automation code in response to events.

Linux 60
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Technology Short Take #51

Scott Lowe

I’m not sure if this falls here or into the “Cloud Computing/Cloud Computing” category, but Shannon McFarland—fellow co-conspirator with the Denver OpenStack Meetup group—has a nice article describing some design and deployment considerations for IPv6 in the OpenStack Kilo release. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60
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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. Servers/Hardware. This blog post highlights just one example.

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Technology Short Take #65

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware. Want to run Docker Swarm with IPv6? This one isn’t quite virtualization, but isn’t quite hardware either, so we’ll throw it in here. Jason Boche walks you through the steps needed to recover your VCSA 6 appliance in the event an fsck (file system check) fails. Nothing this time around. Maybe next time!

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