Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

I’m now roughly six months into using Linux as my primary laptop OS, and it’s been a few months since my last progress report. I’m still using the Dell Latitude E7370, which continues—from a hardware perspective—to perform admirably. This seems to happen most frequently with presentations.

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Linux Report Dell Mobile 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws. Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I’ve been a Mac OS X user for a long time; I switched from Windows to OS X in 2003 when the OS X flavor of the day was 10.2 “Jaguar.” Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. Further, I need to ensure that the applications I need to get my job done will be present on my next platform.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 5, 2011

Yesterday I completed co-presenting the three-part Ketchum webinar series on Tapping the Power of Mobile. UNCERTAINTIES: WINDOWS PHONE 7. Whether Nokia quickly, successfully, and fully transitions to Windows Phone 7. * App developer enthusiasm for the Windows Phone platform. UNCERTAINTIES: SAMSUNG.

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Operating Systems Mobile System Windows 119

Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2016

You will learn how to painlessly deploy fairly complex applications that scale across multiple instances in cloud technologies including Windows Azure Chef, Chef Solo, Linux and Windows Tools. Groups will complete a cloud assessment of Fortune 100 firms using public information and make presentations to the client.

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Cloud Web Services Hardware Software 70

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Andrey Khomyakov shares some information on automating the setup of whitebox switches running Cumulus Linux in part 2 of this series on learning network automation. Servers/Hardware. could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems. Alpine Linux 3.5 Nothing this time around! Way to go, Daniel! was recently released.

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Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Per RFC 1925 , every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and a different presentation. Nick Janetakis discusses some of the differences it’s made for some of his Docker images to switch to using Alpine Linux as the base (instead of the more common Ubuntu or Debian base images).

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Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Christian Kellner talks about work done on Thunderbolt 3 security levels for GNU/Linux. Read this post-mortem on an outage to gain a better idea of some of the challenges this additional complexity might present when it comes to troubleshooting. OpenSSH on Windows —what a time to be alive!

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Linux Vmware Comparison Network 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

” Eul walks through the basic components of the mobile platform, which includes not only hardware but also mobile software. It appears it’s running some flavor of Windows. Hand shows a Windows 8-based 8" tablet from Dell, the start of a new family of products that will be branded Venue.

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Intel Hardware Mobile Dell 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

Tyler Christiansen recently published a post on a network automation workflow that was based on a presentation he gave at the SF Network Automation meetup. This post contains a link to a useful presentation on the essential parts of EVPN. Servers/Hardware. The post also mentions a new version of Windows, Nano Server.

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Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60

Sean Daniel

AUGUST 8, 2012

about a name change from Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials to Windows Essential Server 2012. Before I joined Microsoft, I spent countless hours with my roommates with Windows NT4 server, Proxy Server, and more software, trying to share an Internet connection with my room mates. Posted by Sean Daniel. at 4:39 PM.

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Small Business SMB Windows Microsoft 78

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

This “overcommitment” technique could have some negative effects on existing monitoring systems that are unaware of the underlying hardware configuration. For example, their product runs natively as an agent/daemon/service on various UNIX platforms, various Linux distributions, and all recent versions of Windows Server.

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Meeting Storage Hardware Network 63

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Servers/Hardware. Kenneth Hui—with whom I have the privilege of co-presenting at the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong in less than a month—has a comprehensive write-up on using Vagrant and Chef to build an HA OpenStack installation on your laptop. on flow table explosion with OpenFlow. Puppet code examples are available here.

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Vmware Network Virtualization Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Via Cody Bunch, I found this GitHub repository to help set up development environments on Windows. In this article , a presentation given by Graham Whaley of Intel discusses the “continuum” that exists between containers and VMs, and how in the future we’ll pick and choose the best attributes of both approaches.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

The Internet of Things presents us with both convenience and inconvenience at the same time, suddenly everything is smart is hackable again with startups sometimes repeating security mistakes made decades ago in the rush to market toys. We have some friends in Mexico, who are developing new hardware to interact with this.

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Internet Research Security Tools 52

ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

The Internet of Things presents us with both convenience and inconvenience at the same time, suddenly everything is smart is hackable again with startups sometimes repeating security mistakes made decades ago in the rush to market toys. We have some friends in Mexico, who are developing new hardware to interact with this.

Internet 52

Internet Research Security Tools 52

CTOvision

AUGUST 15, 2013

HPSetup is an old holdover from the more insecure wireless days of early windows XP and is a good network to spoof for older computers, whereas the default linksys and belkin names are good gambles for SSID spoofing. Potentially any of your past network connections that weren’t encrypted are targets if they are beaconed for by your hardware.

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Wireless Network Linux Operating Systems 242

SPF13

MARCH 20, 2015

This presentation was delivered at sinfo.org in Feb 2015. 60s & 70s • Computer companies sold hardware • Software was free • Software was colloborative • IBM dominates. Due to time constraints we only focused on 4 of the 6 principles. Transcript. What Every Successful Open Source Project Needs. spf13 Chief Operator @ Docker?

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Open Source Linux Software Software 100

Sean Daniel

JANUARY 6, 2011

Windows Multi Point 2011 and How it Fits into Your Small Business. I’ve talked about Multi-Point before, and I mentioned it in my presentation at SMBNation in Las Vegas at the end of last year, but yet I still get the questions about education only, or can we use it in business? Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Thursday, January 06, 2011.

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Windows Small Business SMB Education 69

Dataconomy

JUNE 22, 2023

Click on the “Download” button to download the desktop app (Windows or Mac) or the “Use Online” button to use the web app. There is presently no comprehensive list. Windows 10/8.11, Linux, and Macintosh are all highly recommended. It is censorship-free, private, and offline-capable.

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Internet Meeting Artificial Intelligence Microsoft 87

Scott Lowe

APRIL 17, 2017

Hykes says these rules are the impetus behind the separation between Enterprise Edition and Community Edition, and why there are tools like Docker for Mac or Docker for Windows. The demo shows off multi-stage builds and the desktop-to-cloud integration from both Docker for Mac and Docker for Windows. Make the powerful simple.

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Windows Security 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

First up, Jason goes off on a rant about network virtualization , briefly hitting topics like the relationship between overlays and hardware, the role of hardware in network virtualization, the changing roles of data center professionals, and whether overlays are the next logical step in the evolution of the network. Servers/Hardware.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 106

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Servers/Hardware. This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems. This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems.

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Firewall Windows Linux Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2014

Matthew Brender touches on a networking issue present in VMware ESXi with regard to VMkernel multi-homing. Servers/Hardware. Here’s a quick article on how to assess if your Linux-based server is affected. I recently built a Windows Server 2008 R2 image for use in my OpenStack home lab. See here for details.

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Vmware Windows Virtualization Storage 60

ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

Michael Coden, Associate Director, Cybersecurity, MIT Sloan, along with Michael Stonebreaker will present this novel concept at RSAC 2023. It was on a project that Dan Kaminsky presented at Discourse 2019. One of the last things Dan presented was a time machine. It manages all the hardware and all the software on a system.

Operating Systems 40

Operating Systems System Open Source Applications 40

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

First up, Jason goes off on a rant about network virtualization , briefly hitting topics like the relationship between overlays and hardware, the role of hardware in network virtualization, the changing roles of data center professionals, and whether overlays are the next logical step in the evolution of the network. Servers/Hardware.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 61

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Servers/Hardware. This site presents a convincing argument for multi-process containers; have a look. Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is similar to vCloud Air’s Disaster Recovery service, though obviously tailored toward Hyper-V and Windows Server (which is perfectly fine for organizations that are using Hyper-V and Windows Server).

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Storage Intel Disaster Recovery Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 18, 2017

Golub then transitions into the meat of the general session presentation, which (understandably) is focused on Docker in the enterprise. Once again, I’m not clear how using Docker fixes infrastructure provisioning delays, or how using Docker fixes issues with patching and hardware maintenance.

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Oracle Applications Virtualization Security 60

ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

Instead of just targeting zero days in the Windows operating system- which it did -- it then infected Siemens Step7 systems, causing the fast-spinning centrifuges to tear themselves apart. Vamosi: And a lot of these systems do not use the familiar Linux Mac Windows operating systems. And how might we defend ourselves?

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System Industry Conference Network 52

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

WIENS: Yeah, so So Vector 35 grew out of a number of folks that were playing CTFs that were doing vulnerability research doing reverse engineering for government contracting purposes and then thought like, you know what, it'd be nice to see sunshine, have a window at her office, get outside, do more Hilton commercial. I think we can.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

And in this episode, I'm going to be discussing the world of reverse engineering hardware. It's not network security where you can download a spec or code and analyze it on your Linux box. Vamosi: And then there's the small matter of hardware itself. Hard and hardware hack with no hardware. I'm Robert Vamosi.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 2, 2022

I write a monthly security column for Windows Secrets and I do a couple other things on the side. So when they saw my presentation years ago about locks and lock picking at DEF CON, that's when they approached me and DEF CON leadership approached me and said Hey, do you want to be a part of this? I'm also a blogger@forbes.com.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 25, 2022

At the time of this podcast, Lockbit accounts for 40% of the ransomware present today and it hits both Windows and Linux machines. I remember reading a report that Google had implemented hardware tokens, their entire employee, everybody has a hardware token. In 2022, Lockbit became the most widely used ransomware.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

In this post, we will explore the history of computer hacking and cybersecurity threats from the 1950s to present day. “Hacker” referred to people who explored the limits of computer technology and found ways to modify or improve computer hardware and software.

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Malware Internet Security Government 75

ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

CLEMENS: And basically, they just gave me you remember, back in Windows, they had the index dot dat files that had some history in it. And so they said, What can you do with this, you know, and I said, Well, I'll just put it into my little Linux terminal and the strings dash on it. That’s not always as easy as it sounds.

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