SecureWorld News

AUGUST 10, 2020

When technology companies close the support door on their old systems and software, it opens the gates for cybercriminals. The most recent example of this is for organizations using Windows 7. Microsoft and other industry professionals strongly recommend upgrading computer systems to an actively supported operating system.".

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The Verge

APRIL 30, 2021

I’ve spent the past week digging into this world — the players, the jargon, the university’s turbulent history with open-source software, the devoted and principled Linux kernel community. The story begins in 2017, when a systems-security researcher named Kangjie Lu became an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota.

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Network World

JUNE 22, 2016

In a world where any new software project is built in large part on existing third-party code, finding and patching vulnerabilities in popular open-source libraries is vital to creating reliable and secure applications.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2020

With the increasing numbers of remote workers, it’s even more critical to make sure the software agencies develop and use is secure. By incorporating a quality assurance technique called fuzzing into their software vulnerability testing and assurance processes to uncover coding errors and security loopholes. How to get started?

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2020

With the increasing numbers of remote workers, it’s even more critical to make sure the software agencies develop and use is secure. By incorporating a quality assurance technique called fuzzing into their software vulnerability testing and assurance processes to uncover coding errors and security loopholes. How to get started?

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2020

With the increasing numbers of remote workers, it’s even more critical to make sure the software agencies develop and use is secure. By incorporating a quality assurance technique called fuzzing into their software vulnerability testing and assurance processes to uncover coding errors and security loopholes. How to get started?

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This article provides a few practical examples of how using VPC Endpoints to reduce network traffic moving through NAT Gateways can help save money. These are worth a read if security and compliance are your jam (see here , here , here , here , here , here , and here ). Chris Farris shares some tips for securing GitHub organizations.

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Galido

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Information Technology Blog - - Data Security and its Importance on the Internet - Information Technology Blog. Hacking and data breaches are a common thing today, especially with the rise of open source platforms and electronic transactions. Educating personnel in cyber security is more paramount than ever.

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TM Forum

JANUARY 31, 2022

Mobile apps typically use GPS from the mobile phones to determine location, but other sources are utilized such as Wi-Fi nodes. As the main operating system providers in the market today (Google, Apple) are focusing on ensuring location data is not shared, it is envisaged that this source may become fractured in the coming years.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 19, 2023

As software development teams move towards a DevOps culture, security is becoming an increasingly important aspect of the development process. DevSecOps is a practice that integrates security into the DevOps workflow. According to GitLab’s 2022 Global DevSecOps Survey , there isn’t enough clarity around who owns security.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

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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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 13, 2020

And along with that we’ve also learned a lot about browser security. In this episode, one researcher explains how he successfully escaped the Chrome sandbox, and how bug bounties must just be a good thing resulting in better security for us all. Chrome is still one of the most secure browsers today.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 13, 2020

And along with that we’ve also learned a lot about browser security. In this episode, one researcher explains how he successfully escaped the Chrome sandbox, and how bug bounties must just be a good thing resulting in better security for us all. Chrome is still one of the most secure browsers today.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Operating Systems/Applications. Cole Atkinson discusses the fact that osxfuse is no longer open source , and the ramifications of this development on open source in general. Teammate Alex Brand has a look at VMware’s new OVS-based CNI plugin, Antrea. Servers/Hardware.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Vulnerability scanning is an important part of security as it can help organizations identify and fix vulnerabilities before they can be exploited by attackers. Vulnerability scanning can also help organizations comply with regulatory requirements for security. Operating system vulnerability scan.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Open source has become so critical to so many aspects of our computing infrastructure. It’s a bit of a whirlwind introduction, but Eric also supplies some practical use cases/examples towards the end of the article. I recently stumbled across Ricardo Sueiras’ “AWS open source news and updates” posts.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 13, 2020

And along with that we’ve also learned a lot about browser security. In this episode, one researcher explains how he successfully escaped the Chrome sandbox, and how bug bounties must just be a good thing resulting in better security for us all. Chrome is still one of the most secure browsers today.

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Linux Academy

JUNE 4, 2019

The Serverless Framework is an open-source project that replaces traditional platforms (hardware, operating systems) with a platform that can run in a cloud environment. Your programming language and backend database are similar examples, proving you’re never going to be completely free from some sort of commitment.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

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.” Via Teri Radichel , I saw this article from Google Project Zero about zero-click security vulnerabilities in Zoom.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

For all your other desktop software needs, there’s usually a free, open-source program that can do just as good a job. Gimp , for example, instead of Photoshop. This is an image of the Mint operating system which you can use to run or install the operating system. Try Mint out. Download Mint.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws. I, personally, would posit that Linux can be more secure than other platforms, but it requires proper configuration and can still be undone by a loose nut behind the keyboard.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Sathyajith Bhat covers five open source tools for container security. Cory O’Daniel explains how to use role-based access control to assign Pod Security Policies (PSPs) to Kubernetes workloads. The folks at Platform9 recently open-sourced a tool called etcdadm (inspired by kubeadm ). Probably not.

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Linux Academy

APRIL 30, 2019

LPI Linux Essentials — This course teaches the basic concepts of processes, programs, and the components of the Linux operating system. Cloud Security Fundamentals — The cloud has brought about tons of innovation and features. One thing often forgotten about during implementation is security. Courses Free in May.

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Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Additionally, we’ll use some common Linux tools, like grep and sed for some front-end regex use examples. Using real-world examples, we highlight the growing importance of Big Data. This course covers the DevSecOps process with an emphasis on securing both legacy and hybrid cloud environments. Build Your Own Linux From Scratch.

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Galido

JUNE 30, 2016

As a result, it offers extra security for data and devices. These virtual mobile applications and their information are located in a highly secured data center, and end-users can view only those pictures that are displayed differently. It does not only impact the aspect of security, but it also changes functionality.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Components involved include the open source Kuma service mesh (in turn leveraging Envoy), anycast BGP, and mutual TLS (mTLS). If you aren’t paying attention to the security of your CI/CD pipelines, you probably should. Oh, and the article shares a handy Python script to help implement bogon filtering in NSX-T.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

Practical examples like this have really helped me better understand YANG and its relationship to structured data you might exchange with a device or service. Mircea’s right—bugs will happen in all software (VMware NSX has had its share, for example), but the key is in how it’s handled. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 17, 2017

It’s a toolkit, part of the Moby Project, that is used for building secure, portable, and lean operating systems for containers. It uses the moby tooling to build system images. LinuxKit was first announced and open sourced in April 2017 at DockerCon in Austin. So what is LinuxKit?

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 2, 2020

This time around the content is a tad heavy on the security side, but I’ve still managed to pull in articles on networking, cloud computing, applications, and some programming-related content. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s hoping you find something useful here! Networking. —isn’t perfect.

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Vox

APRIL 13, 2020

The new tool brings with it not only hope for a quicker end to the pandemic, but also a host of privacy and security concerns. The alert will not reveal who’s infected — in this example, that’s you — but it will share information for what people who were in proximity to you should do next. The whole system is opt-in.

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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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Scott Lowe

APRIL 27, 2018

Cilium, the open source project working to bring eBPF-powered networking and security to Kubernetes environments, has hit the 1.0 People do all kinds of interesting things with Raspberry Pis; here’s an article by Scott Helme on using a Pi to secure DNS traffic. Operating Systems/Applications.

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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. Vulnerabilities at the operating system level may be exploited by rogue container workloads if not hardened. Implement Pod Security Policy.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking. This post on automating NSX security rules using Splunk (and some custom code) is pretty cool. Servers/Hardware.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

You’ll want someone with years of pen testing experience, some one who knows the operating system like no other. And my background is pretty straightforward with cyber security for the past 16 years on many different levels. The tools are open source, and Paula has a team of experts that helps build these tools.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

It’s short and light on details, but it does provide an example snippet of Python code to illustrate what can be done with Netmiko. Acra is open source and available via GitHub. Here’s a post outlining some of VMware’s more prominent open source projects in the “cloud-native” space. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vox

APRIL 16, 2020

Apple and Google are a month away from launching a series of updates to their smartphone operating systems that will use Bluetooth signals to track potential coronavirus cases. That it involved changes to mobile operating systems actually made it seem more likely that it would be a permanent fixture.

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