The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

A 2019 study from antivirus company Norton found that Apple’s stringent controls over what apps are allowed into the App Store made iOS devices somewhat more secure than those running the more popular open-source Android operating system.

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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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SecureWorld News

APRIL 21, 2022

Treasury Department warning of a North Korean state-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) known as the Lazarus Group targeting cryptocurrency and blockchain companies. The threat actors use social engineering to encourage individuals to download trojanized cryptocurrency applications on Windows or macOS operating systems.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 13, 2023

The Critical Start Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) team analyzed a range of intelligence sources, such as customer data, open-source intelligence, vulnerability research, social media monitoring, and Dark Web monitoring to identify the most pressing cybersecurity threats of the first half of 2023.

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SPF13

MARCH 20, 2015

In the last few years open source has transformed the software industry. From Android to Wikipedia, open source is everywhere, but how does one succeed in it? What Every Successful Open Source Project Needs. spf13 Chief Operator @ Docker? Open Source is taking over the world. Transcript.

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Linux Academy

APRIL 30, 2019

Each month, we will kick off our community content with a live study group allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another. Linux Study Group in May. Ways to participate in the study group: 1) Watch – [link]. 3) Join us on YouTube!

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

“Whether companies are pursuing space ventures of their own or maturing cutting-edge systems to one day offer a new service to NASA, the agency is dedicated to helping bring new capabilities to market for our mutual benefit.”. Kent, Wash.-based based Blue Origin will partner with NASA on two projects.

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Galido

MAY 1, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Boing Boing is a website, first established as a zine in 1988, later becoming a group blog. TechWorld – Operating Systems.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Sathyajith Bhat covers five open source tools for container security. The folks at Platform9 recently open-sourced a tool called etcdadm (inspired by kubeadm ). Operating Systems/Applications. First up is this Go study group , which has both US and India meeting times. Career/Soft Skills.

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Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Boing Boing is a website, first established as a zine in 1988, later becoming a group blog. TechWorld – Operating Systems.

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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). Read this NCC Group article about some ways they’ve compromised CI/CD pipelines. It’s a shame the site doesn’t appear to have an RSS/Atom feed… Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

The VMware Cloud-Native Apps group has a breakdown of some of the new features/functionality found in the 1.9 Via Maish Saidel-Keesing, I saw this post about 10 open source Kubernetes tools for highly effective SRE and Ops teams. Operating Systems/Applications. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. PowerShell Core 6.0

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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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Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Boing Boing is a website, first established as a zine in 1988, later becoming a group blog. TechWorld – Operating Systems.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

Sam Weston takes a look at EKS Managed Node Groups , examining both the good and bad aspects of this functionality, and provides some sample configurations. I recently got turned on to Alex Mitelman’s System Design Weekly, which is like a super-cool version of Technology Short Takes but a bit more tightly focused.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 2, 2020

This recent Ars Technica article points out that a feature in Chromium—the open source project leveraged by Chrome and Edge, among others—is having a significant impact on root DNS traffic. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s hoping you find something useful here! Networking. I use scp all the time.

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Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Each month we will kick off our community content with a live study group. Linux Operating System Fundamentals. This course explains the history of Linux, the open-source movement, and how this software is used today. Members of the Linux Academy community come together and share their insights and questions.

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Linux Academy

APRIL 29, 2019

Each month, we will kick off our community content with a live study group allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another. Linux Study Group in May. Ways to participate in the study group: 1) Watch – [link]. 3) Join us on YouTube!

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Kitaboo

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Being a free, open-source, popular platform makes Calibre one of the best ePUB readers to date, which essentially created the groundwork for more sophisticated technologies. It also converts PDF documents into various eBook-friendly formats, including ePUB and MOBI amongst others.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Matt Oswalt recently unveiled (and open sourced) a framework called ToDD, which stands for “Testing on Demand: Distributed”. Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall. Operating Systems/Applications. Read more about it here. Servers/Hardware.

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Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

In the plethora of announcements, what stands out for me is the increasing clarity of the emerging platforms battle, which is happening on two levels: mobile operating system and applications. Mobile operating system. The launch of the iPhone 3G redefined how people thought about mobile devices.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

It’s been over four months since my last post on open source Puppet , when I posted some updated multi-OS Puppet configurations. Each “accounts::virtual” resource includes a user account, a group account, and a home directory, but we manage all those individual resources as one object through the class definition.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

If you’re using CloudFormation to manage your AWS security groups in an infrastructure-as-code approach, you owe it to yourself to check out this article by Jose Luis Ordiales. Operating Systems/Applications. Nothing this time around (sorry!). Michael Wittig shares some details on migrating to Amazon Linux 2.

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Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Each month, we will kick off our community content with a live study group, allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another. March Study Group Course: Linux Operating System Fundamentals – Have you heard of Linux, but don’t really know anything about it?

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Linux Academy

JANUARY 29, 2019

Each month we will kick off our community content with a live study group allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another. Linux Operating System Fundamentals – Have you heard of Linux, but don’t really know anything about it?

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 8, 2014

It’s funny—I think Ed’s post might actually be a response to a Twitter discussion that I started about the value of the abstractions that are being implemented in Group-based Policy (GBP) in OpenStack Neutron. Jason Horn provides an example of how to script NSX security groups. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Linux Academy

JANUARY 27, 2019

With engaging features like Cloud Servers and Consoles, Interactive Diagrams, Hands-On Labs in live cloud environments, customizable flashcards, study groups, direct access to our expert Training Architects, downloadable Course videos, and more, Linux Academy is the only way to get the real-world experience you need. Creating Alerting Rules.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JANUARY 6, 2020

It’s easy today to gather feedback quickly and effectively through Internet focus groups and by monitoring online discussions; but unless that input is applied to make things different, it is wasted. Customers recognize that this sort of information enables you to provide them with better service, so they are usually very open.

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Galido

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Hacking and data breaches are a common thing today, especially with the rise of open source platforms and electronic transactions. A common way for malware to attack is for it to find exploits and vulnerabilities in a system. Anti-virus programs can catch most malicious bugs that enter your system. Install Anti-Virus.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 14, 2015

Although slanted toward Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), this is a good article about why open source—and OpenStack, in particular—isn’t necessarily “free.”. Operating Systems/Applications. The Monsanto engineering blog recently published an article on using etcd clustering with AWS Auto Scaling Groups.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? In a moment I’ll tell you about a flaw discovered only through fuzz testing in a very old open source product. Vamosi: So a vulnerable version of Bash provided an attacker the ability to pass untrusted code to other systems and processes.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? In a moment I’ll tell you about a flaw discovered only through fuzz testing in a very old open source product. Vamosi: So a vulnerable version of Bash provided an attacker the ability to pass untrusted code to other systems and processes.

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Linux Academy

JUNE 25, 2019

Each month we will kick off our community content with a live study group. Principal Systems Engineer from Symantec Corporation and Ell Marquez for a Threat Report Rundown. Linux Academy Study Group July 2019: Symantec Threat Report Rundown. Linux Operating System Fundamentals. This month, join Scott Parker, Sr.

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Linux Academy

MAY 28, 2019

Each month we will kick off our community content with a live study group allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another. Linux Operating System Fundamentals – Have you heard of Linux, but don’t really know anything about it?

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

with the Floodlight open source controller. This is a reasonable way of grouping the various approaches to SDN (using SDN in the very loose industry sense, not the original control plane-data plane separation sense). Operating Systems/Applications. What makes up a hybrid cloud?

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

ACS offers multiple “endpoints,” each of which enables you to use a particular open source container/orchestration tool. Operating Systems/Applications. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Microsoft recently announced a preview of Azure Container Service (ACS). Want to run Docker Swarm on Azure?

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group and Tola Capital , which led Pulumi’s $15 million Series A funding round two years ago , also participated in the new Series B funding round. Somasegar, managing director of Madrona Venture Group, and Sheila Gulati, managing director of Tola Capital.

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