Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

Servers/Hardware Menno Finlay-Smits shares information on reducing fan noise on Intel NUCs. Operating Systems/Applications Here’s one person’s take on sudo for Windows. I also enjoyed Ivan’s realistic take on rollbacks in a network automation environment. (TL;DR: TL;DR: It’s not as easy as it might seem.)

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Travis Downs explores a recent Intel microcode update that may have negatively impacted performance. 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. Servers/Hardware.

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Linux Academy

JUNE 3, 2019

You have to launch the virtual servers, which means you need to: Choose an operating system. Plus when it’s okay to lie to the compiler, what GitHub’s Sponsors program means for open source, and your feedback. Plus Wes and Ell are back from KubeCon in Barcelona and return with some great news for open source.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2022

Losing to Apple—whose M-series chips are widely regarded as faster and more efficient than Intel’s chips—has apparently stung the chip giant into revving up the innovation engine. These details on their 12th-generation H processors shows that Intel appears to be intent to regain the lead. ” and “faker.js”

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

I’m back home in Denver after spending a few days in San Francisco at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013, so I thought I’d take a few minutes to sit down and share a summary of the event and my thoughts. Enhancing OpenStack with Intel Technologies for Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud: [link].

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Operating Systems/Applications. I found this article on imperative vs. declarative system configuration is quite helpful in understanding Puppet’s declarative model. I enjoyed this article by Josh Townsend on using SUSE Studio and HAProxy to create a (free) open source load balancing solution for VMware View.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This is a liveblog for the day 1 keynote at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014. Among the accomplishments Krzanich lists, he mentions that Intel was the #2 shipper of tablets last year. At this point Krzanich hands it off to Diane Bryant, SVP and GM of the Data Center Group at Intel. One would assume that Apple is #1.)

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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. AnandTech has some coverage of the latest Intel processor announcements , which totally flew by my radar. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The Intel Management Engine (ME) has received a bit of attention as a potential security vulnerability; in this article , authors Maxim Goryachy and Mark Ermolov expose some new concerns around the Intel ME and its undocumented Manufacturing Mode. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Good stuff!

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 3, 2016

Carlos Cardenas has a great post that does a great job of explaining SAI (Switch Abstraction Interface) and switchdev , two key abstraction layers involved in building Linux-based network operating systems (NOSes). Kevin Houston has a write-up on the recent Intel “Broadwell” announcement that provides details on the latest CPU family.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Intel has a tutorial series on Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX). I noted that a Vagrant provider for vRealize Automation was recently released as an open source project. Operating Systems/Applications. I’m pretty clear about Kolla, Kuryr, and Magnum, but I’m not so clear about OpenStack Zun.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Travis Downs explores a recent Intel microcode update that may have negatively impacted performance. 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. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

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. Acra is open source and available via GitHub.

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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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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Intel has finally started shipping silicon photonics gear, according to this report from El Reg (news coming out of IDF16). I predicted a couple of years ago that Intel SGX (Software Guard Extensions) was going to be HUGE (see here ). Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Then again, what do I know?

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

Tetragon is Isovalent’s newly open-sourced security framework. Operating Systems/Applications. BPFDoor, as it is known, is a passive backdoor that allows threat actors to remotely connect to a Linux shell. Check out this write-up. Think PDF files are safe? Think again. Read more about it on the Isovalent blog.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

with the Floodlight open source controller. Intel announced the E5 2600 v2 series of CPUs back at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 (you can follow my IDF 2013 coverage by looking at posts with the IDF2013 tag ). Operating Systems/Applications. is needed in order to see broader adoption of OpenFlow.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Open source has become so critical to so many aspects of our computing infrastructure. I recently stumbled across Ricardo Sueiras’ “AWS open source news and updates” posts. Adrian’s operational review readiness template is another great post as well. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

Mark Ermolov discusses a vulnerability in the ROM (read-only memory) of the Intel Converged Security and Management Engine (CSME). Operating Systems/Applications. Kornelis Sietsma looks at the options for working with multiple git identities on a single system. Aaron Parecki discusses the first draft of OAuth 2.1.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 17, 2017

One use case mentioned is Intuit’s use of Docker, and Golub points out that the person responsible for running Intuit’s systems is confident enough in their systems that they’re attending DockerCon on Tax Day (when as many as 25 million tax returns are expected to be processed). to the stage. Monica turns the stage back over to Hykes.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

News in the OpenStack space hasn’t been so good recently (Intel pulling out of OSIC, various companies laying off folks, other “pure play” companies shifting focus away from OpenStack), but here’s one architect’s perspective on what you may still want to attend the OpenStack Summit. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

To help resolve this issue, Cumulus Networks (and possibly Metacloud, I’m not sure of their involvement yet) has release an open source project called vxfld. Is Intel having second thoughts about software-defined infrastructure? Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

Calderon: And even when we wrote the book it got tricky because some of the cool findings that we had, couldn't be mentioned in the book so we had to you know work on open source boards and come up, use open source laboratories instead of doing real life examples. And it's not just stories from the authors themselves.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

Calderon: And even when we wrote the book it got tricky because some of the cool findings that we had, couldn't be mentioned in the book so we had to you know work on open source boards and come up, use open source laboratories instead of doing real life examples. And it's not just stories from the authors themselves.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2022

In some cases they’re taking open source, community-based tools and leveraging them in creative new ways against common threats. Living off the land or fireless malware is a threat actor leveraging the utilities readily available on a system. There are the vendors, right? They have their pitch, their angle.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

I think a fair number of folks may not be aware that the Nginx ingress controller for Kubernetes—both the community version and the Nginx-maintained open source version—do suffer from timeouts and errors resulting from changes in the back-end application’s list of endpoints (think pods being added or removed).

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ForAllSecure

MAY 4, 2021

But I know deception technologies, I know that reach and ATT&CK simulation tools use it, I know that that threat intel platforms use it, there's the number of people that use ATT&CK in this field is much greater than the people that don't at this point. There's a lot of research that goes into it.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 4, 2021

But I know deception technologies, I know that reach and ATT&CK simulation tools use it, I know that that threat intel platforms use it, there's the number of people that use ATT&CK in this field is much greater than the people that don't at this point. There's a lot of research that goes into it.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Companies can get around this by applying for a license — something that has allowed Intel, for instance, to continue working with Huawei. “I It’s not tied to an American-made operating system the way that phone maker Huawei depended on Google — a dependence that has locked phone buyers out of popular Android apps.

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