Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Servers/Hardware. The Log4J vulnerability and associated exploits has been on many folks' minds, so it’s only natural that many security companies have been looking into how to mitigate this attack vector. Aqua Security has a write-up on some of their analysis here. Jeff Geerling describes his backup plan. Virtualization.

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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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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! Servers/Hardware What do you think of the ThinkPhone ? Security Adrian Mouat reviews some of the security-focused changes in Go 1.20.

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Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

Galido

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The good news is that there are a few ways that you can reduce IT costs without sacrificing the quality of the service or the security. You might find that you can make significant savings through consolidation while also improving security. Use Open Source Software. Use The Cloud. Offshore Outsourcing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

And they all rely on the open-source NoSQL database Apache Cassandra ®. This alters and slows the flow of data from input to decision to output, resulting in missed opportunities that can open the door for customers to churn or allow recognized cyber security threat patterns to go undetected and unmitigated.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts. Michael Kashin explains how he built a DIY (Do It Yourself) SD-WAN using Envoy and Wireguard.

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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. Press Contacts.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Servers/Hardware. The big news in the hardware space recently was the article regarding the purported Chinese hardware supply chain attack. Of the (innumerable) articles commenting on the hardware hack, this article by Joe FitzPatrick and this ErrataSec article caught my eye. This has generated a lot of discussion.

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Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Components involved include the open source Kuma service mesh (in turn leveraging Envoy), anycast BGP, and mutual TLS (mTLS). Servers/Hardware. William Lam takes a look at some potentially interesting homelab hardware. If you aren’t paying attention to the security of your CI/CD pipelines, you probably should.

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Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

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. Cabling is hardware, right? Ulrich Speidel shares some of the findings after the volcanic eruption in Tonga.

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Servers/Hardware. As opposed to just encrypting data at the transport level (although Acra does that between components of its architecture) or just encrypting data at the storage level (using an encrypted file system or similar), Acra targets encrypting data at the table/row/column level within a database. Check back next time!

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Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles discussing the major data center technologies—networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications, virtualization…you name it! (If Thinking of using a hardware VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint) with VMware NSX? Servers/Hardware. Networking.

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Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 5, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Although I’ve by and large moved away from Apple hardware (I still have a MacBook Pro running macOS that sees very little use, and a Mac Pro running Fedora), I did see this article regarding a new keyboard for the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. It provides the basics behind X.509v3 Kubernetes 1.15

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

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

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

In addition to trust, Intel has done work on security with OpenStack. Intel also helped update the OpenStack Security Guide ([link]. Next, Intel talks about how they have worked to expose hardware features into OpenStack. Gopal now takes over and moves the discussion into storage in OpenStack.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Servers/Hardware. A moderate security bug in OpenSSH (all releases between 5.4 and 7.1p2) was discovered.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Open source has become so critical to so many aspects of our computing infrastructure. Uh oh… more hardware exploits. I recently stumbled across Ricardo Sueiras’ “AWS open source news and updates” posts. Has the time come for the return of DNS cache poisoning attacks ? Good stuff here!

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Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

Servers/Hardware. This article is about hardware, just not the hardware I’d typically talk about in this section—instead, it’s about Philips Hue light bulbs. There’s a security vulnerability , so don’t let your smart home get hacked. That’s cool. Good for the EFF. Not cool , Wacom.

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Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Tim Hinrichs discusses securing the Kubernetes API with Open Policy Agent. Pod Security Policies (PSPs) are an important security feature in Kubernetes. This article discusses four open source secrets management tools. Nothing this time around! ” Operating Systems/Applications.

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Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2020

I don’t have any links for servers/hardware or security in today’s Short Take, but hopefully there’s enough linked content in the other sections that you’ll still find something useful. Servers/Hardware. I recently stumbled across this regular list of AWS open source news and updates by Ricardo Sueiras.

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Storage Tools Architecture Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts. Michael Kashin explains how he built a DIY (Do It Yourself) SD-WAN using Envoy and Wireguard.

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Servers/Hardware. These viewpoints—that security via micro-segmentation is a compelling use case for NSX—is one I’ve seen repeated in numerous environments. Turns out there’s a security vulnerability in some of the wireless keyboard and mice out there. Nicolas Michel has a good post on the transition from network engineer v1.0

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Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Servers/Hardware. These viewpoints—that security via micro-segmentation is a compelling use case for NSX—is one I’ve seen repeated in numerous environments. Turns out there’s a security vulnerability in some of the wireless keyboard and mice out there. Nicolas Michel has a good post on the transition from network engineer v1.0

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Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Servers/Hardware. James Green shares some information on Docker Bench , a tool designed to help secure Docker environments. Jase McCarty talks about how to backup or recover storage policy-based management (SPBM) profiles. Ivan Pepelnjak shares a Python script that creates Ansible inventory from Vagrant’s SSH configuration.

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Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

Servers/Hardware. The next day, the Microsoft Security Response Center confirmed the vulnerability. The next day, the Microsoft Security Response Center confirmed the vulnerability. It’s good to see 1Password add support for U2F security keys for logging into your 1Password.com account via a web browser.

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Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

This is a liveblog of IDF 2014 session DATS009, titled “Ceph: Open Source Storage Software Optimizations on Intel Architecture for Cloud Workloads.” Chagam does admit that not all workloads are suited for distributed storage solutions. Chagam turns to discussing Ceph block storage.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Since we’re on a bit of a security kick this time around, then the recent announcement by HyTrust of HyTrust CloudControl 6.0 These look interesting, but be aware that they are not licensed with an open source license. Networking. Michael Allen published an article on weaponizing the Yubikey.

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Linux Dell Open Source Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Servers/Hardware. A moderate security bug in OpenSSH (all releases between 5.4 and 7.1p2) was discovered.

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Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Here’s a good source. Servers/Hardware. In part 2 , Mike discusses things like using the appropriate virtual hardware, the right kernel modules for VMXNET3, getting rid of unnecessary hardware (like the virtual floppy), and similar tips. Any thoughts? Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. All good stuff, thanks Mike!

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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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Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

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. Servers/Hardware. What’s that?

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Vmware Storage Open Source Security 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Servers/Hardware. While all the attention is “up the stack,” there are still some occasions when you need to worry about the details in the hardware. I find it enormously helpful to stay connected to various open source-related IRC channels, but staying logged while on the move is, for all intents and purposes, impossible.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Via the Kubernetes blog , Box announced it has open sourced a project called kube-iptables-tailer , which turns packet drops from iptables into Kubernetes events that can be logged for easier troubleshooting. Servers/Hardware. Who says you can’t please everyone all the time? Networking. It’s the end of an era.

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Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Galido

JULY 20, 2018

Many iPhone users and Apple fanboys alike stand by their product no matter how limited Apple makes their storage capacities, while Android geeks have long time been able to freely add storage/memory cards to their devices and take advantage of more powerful hardware. Aesthetics, Hardware and Price.

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Study Apple Google Operating Systems 66

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

F5′s products use Intel CPUs, but they also leverage FPGAs to selectively enable certain functions in hardware for improved performance. The first area of SDI that Bryant focuses upon is storage, where growth is happening rapidly but storage is still siloed. Open source investments in Ceph and OpenStack Swift.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Jake Bennett discusses strengthening your AWS security posture by protecting application credentials and rotating EC2 and IAM keys. Gert van Dijk has a great article on upgrading your SSH keys to take advantage of new key types and enhanced security. on Ubuntu 16.04. Have a look here.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

I’m not really sure if this belongs in networking or not (how does one classify OS kernel-level work on networking and security?), Servers/Hardware. 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.

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