Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2024

Networking This article on running WireGuard in Docker may prove useful if that’s an approach I decide to adopt for my AWS lab infrastructure. Russ White laments some of the issues facing network engineering. Servers/Hardware Alex Ellis provides some details on his workflow for booting Raspberry Pi 5 from NVMe.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

Deep learning AI: A rising workhorse Deep learning AI uses the same neural network architecture as generative AI, but can’t understand context, write poems or create drawings. Great for: Extracting meaning from unstructured data like network traffic, video & speech. Model sizes: ~Millions to billions of parameters.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

This Tech Short Take is a bit heavy on security-related links, but there’s still some additional content in a number of other areas, so you should be able to find something useful—or at least interesting—in here. I also enjoyed Ivan’s realistic take on rollbacks in a network automation environment. (TL;DR:

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SecureWorld News

MAY 3, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an alert to urge critical infrastructure organizations to scope their environments for communications equipment deemed to pose high risk. CISA reminds all critical infrastructure owners and operators to take necessary steps in securing the nation's most critical supply chains.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The Center for Internet Security (CIS) recently published a report on securing RDP, and it includes a powerful statement on where we are in cyber history: "We are at a point in cybersecurity where offense must inform defense in order to help protect against the most prolific cyber threats to our environments.

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Tech Republic Security

JUNE 2, 2022

When taking steps to ensure your business’s network security, the pfSense firewall solution and Netgear routers are top choices. The post pfSense vs Netgear router: What are the main differences? appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Networking. Ivan Pepelnjak addresses the idea that network automation is harmful. I believe that IT folks in all disciplines, including networking, need to embrace automation. I believe that IT folks in all disciplines, including networking, need to embrace automation. Servers/Hardware. Using Auth0?

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CTOvision

AUGUST 13, 2013

In addition to the hardware, very effective and fairly robust software has been released as well (GnuRadio). The best and cheapest example of this is probably the newly-released HackRF, an open-sourced radio design that can perform between 100 Mhz to 6 Ghz and is designed to operate with GNU radio. CTO Cyber Security'

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

For the last year Passive Total has been providing open analysis on an interesting piece of adversary infrastructure and in doing so are shedding informative light not just on that particular adversary activity but on how multiple sources of information can be pulled together to form a more complete picture of what is going on.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The problem was first discovered by security researchers at content delivery network (CDN) specialist Cloudflare. Since then, CDN specialist Akamai and security provider Arbor Networks have also published their findings. Also read: Getting the most out of your next-generation firewall.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 21, 2024

In reality, their perceived lower level of security makes them attractive targets to malicious actors. Additionally, nonprofits must be aware of the risks posed by inadequate security in third-party services they use, such as fundraising platforms and email services.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Networking. Ivan Pepelnjak has a post on running network automation tools in a container. Tom Hollingsworth likens networking disaggregation to “cutting the cord” and switching away from cable. Tom Hollingsworth likens networking disaggregation to “cutting the cord” and switching away from cable.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Networking Brent Salisbury shares some code intended to help you “ChatGPT your project documentation.” This is a slightly older article (from January of this year) in which Josh Saul of Hedgehog pays homage to the achievements of Cumulus Networks in the open networking movement. What about preventing it?

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

The collection of links shared below covers a fairly wide range of topics, from old Sun hardware to working with serverless frameworks in the public cloud. Networking. The first is a post on Cilium and F5 load balancer integration , while the second discusses implementing Kubernetes network policies with Cilium and Linkerd.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

I’ve got another collection of links to articles on networking, security, cloud, programming, and career development—hopefully you find something useful! Networking William Morgan’s 2022 service mesh recap captures some of the significant events in service mesh in 2022, although through a Linkerd-colored lens.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Networking. network virtualization). Is the relationship between network virtualization and service mesh closer than some folks might wish to admit? Servers/Hardware. Researchers have uncovered a potential security flaw in Apple Silicon CPUs; more details in this 9to5Mac article. I certainly hope not! Kubernetes 1.24

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CTOvision

MARCH 13, 2014

By Bob Gourley It is time we all began to focus more on the coming age of a totally networked, software-enhanced, continually enhancing, device enabled world. Brian Gerkey, CEO of Open Source Robotics Foundation. Ayah Bdeir, Founder and CEO of littleBits. Neil Gershenfeld, Director of the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 25, 2016

As advanced applications are developed that leverage the capabilities that make Bitcoin possible, enterprise technologists will be able to tap into new capabilities for security and functionality. It was invented by Satoshi Nakamoto, who published the invention in 2008 and released it as open source software in 2009.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

In the past, one option was to use open-source data analytics platforms to analyze data using on-premises infrastructure. Taking this a step further, organizations can achieve the holy grail of hybrid cloud with applications and data that can be moved, managed and secured seamlessly across locations to provide the best of both worlds.

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Data Dell Intel Artificial Intelligence 91

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Networking. Back in April of this year, Patrick Ogenstad announced Netrasp , a Go package for writing network automation tooling in Go. Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Networking. Brian Boucheron provides a great article on how to inspect and debug Kubernetes network primitives. Servers/Hardware. The big news in the hardware space recently was the article regarding the purported Chinese hardware supply chain attack. This has generated a lot of discussion. Probably not.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The demand for software in manufacturing has only increased, as nearly every piece of equipment or hardware is now connected to the internet in some form — and this has also increased the demand for software engineers. Software engineer. DevSecOps engineer.

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CTOvision

APRIL 21, 2014

As big data moves from the Web into the physical world, it’s more important than ever that people who deal with software and people who deal with hardware and machinery understand each other,” says Jon Bruner, who chairs Solid with MIT Media Lab’s Joi Ito. Brian Gerkey, CEO of Open Source Robotics Foundation.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 15, 2021

The content this time around seems to be a bit more security-focused, but I’ve still managed to include a few links in other areas. Networking. Rory McCune points out that Kubernetes is a router , and users should not rely on the fact that pods are not accessible from the outside by default as any form of a security barrier.

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Linux Firewall Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Networking. Want to understand kube-proxy , a key part of Kubernetes networking, a bit better? Xavier Avrillier walks readers through using Antrea (a Kubernetes CNI built on top of Open vSwitch—a topic I’ve touched on a time or two) to provide on-premise load balancing in Kubernetes. Servers/Hardware.

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

Networking. Aidan Steele examines how VPC sharing could potentially improve security and reduce cost. Servers/Hardware. The story of a developer deliberately polluting their open source projects—as outlined here for the “colors.js” And now for the content! ” and “faker.js”

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Load Balancer Linux Intel Cloud 90

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Networking. I enjoyed Dave McCrory’s series on the future of the network (see part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , and part 4 —part 5 hadn’t gone live yet when I published this). Michael Kashin has a handy little tool that functions like ssh-copy-id on servers, but for network devices (leveraging Netmiko). Servers/Hardware.

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Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Networking. I enjoyed Dave McCrory’s series on the future of the network (see part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , and part 4 —part 5 hadn’t gone live yet when I published this). Michael Kashin has a handy little tool that functions like ssh-copy-id on servers, but for network devices (leveraging Netmiko). Servers/Hardware.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 1, 2023

Scammers like to take shortcuts and know that it's easier to hoodwink people than it is to exploit software or hardware. Any organization with a well-guarded security perimeter is low-hanging fruit as long as its employees fall for phishing hoaxes. The human element plays an increasingly important role, as well, and for good reason.

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Network World

APRIL 5, 2017

This is a serious violation of the security barrier enforced by the hypervisor and poses a particular threat to multi-tenant data centers where the customers' virtualized servers share the same underlying hardware.

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Virtualization Operating Systems Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Networking. Koyeb describes , at a high level, the global networking stack for their serverless platform. Components involved include the open source Kuma service mesh (in turn leveraging Envoy), anycast BGP, and mutual TLS (mTLS). Servers/Hardware. Seriously.). Virtualization.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 15, 2014

Cloudera announced support for Accumulo in 2013 as part of their ongoing commitment to open source software. This partnership makes sense and will be a great thing for our customers as the growing demand for unique capabilities available in Accumulo are important to our national security.” About Cloudera. About Koverse.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

MARCH 2, 2009

In this environment, it sure is tempting to chuck Microsoft’s Office and web products and their complicated Enterprise and Select Agreements in favor of open source equivalents. Sure, you’ll say, Microsoft software is really prone to security flaws and attacks. We do need to examine alternatives and options.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2016

Networks and communities: Connecting professional networks other than office workers (especially those where most of the work is in mobile contexts). Human-computer interaction: Hardware companies with network effects. New organizational models: Bringing software development methodologies to other applications (e.g.,

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Cloud Musings

MARCH 9, 2018

According to the former Equifax CEO’s testimony to Congress , one of the primary causes of this now infamous data breach was the company’s failure to patch a critical vulnerability in the open source Apache Struts Web application framework. Equifax also waited a week to scan its network for apps that remained vulnerable. [1]

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

Networking. Said van de Klundert has a post on screen scraping basics for network engineers. For network engineers just getting started with network automation, I suspect that the information shared here may prove quite useful. For readers who may be new to networking, Daniel Wray has a write-up on network cabling.

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Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Networking. The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. See this SDx Central article or this Network World article for more details.). Servers/Hardware. Here’s a brief write-up by Jason Scanga.

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