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Thread on network input parsers

This blogpost contains a long Twitter thread on input parsers. I thought I'd copy the thread here as a blogpost.

I am spending far too long on this chapter on "parsers". It's this huge gaping hole in Computer Science where academics don't realize it's a thing. It's like physics missing one of Newton's laws, or medicine ignoring broken bones, or chemistry ignoring fluorine.
The problem is that without existing templates of how "parsing" should be taught, it's really hard coming up with a structure for describing it from scratch.
"Langsec" has the best model, but at the same time, it's a bit abstract ("input is a language that drives computation"), so I want to ease into it with practical examples for programmers.
Among the needed steps is to stamp out everything you were taught in C/C++ about pointer-arithmetic and overlaying internal packed structures onto external data. Big-endian vs. little-endian isn't confusing -- it's only made confusing because you were taught it wrongly.
Hmmm. I already see a problem with these tweets. People assume I mean "parsing programming languages", like in the Dragon book. Instead, I mean parsing all input, such as IP headers, PDF files, X.509 certificates, and so Continue reading

Cisco Patches Critical Bug in REST API Container

Cisco issued a patch for a critical bug in its IOS XE operating system that could allow a remote...

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Announcing the General Availability of API Tokens

Announcing the General Availability of API Tokens

APIs at Cloudflare

Announcing the General Availability of API Tokens

Today we are announcing the general availability of API Tokens - a scalable and more secure way to interact with the Cloudflare API. As part of making a better internet, Cloudflare strives to simplify manageability of a customer’s presence at the edge. Part of the way we do this is by ensuring that all of our products and services are configurable by API. Customers ranging from partners to enterprises to developers want to automate management of Cloudflare. Sometimes that is done via our API directly, and other times it is done via open source software we help maintain like our Terraform provider or Cloudflare-Go library. It is critical that customers who are automating management of Cloudflare can keep their Cloudflare services as secure as possible.

Least Privilege and Why it Matters

Securing software systems is hard. Limiting what a piece of software can do is a good defense to prevent mistakes or malicious actions from having greater impact than they could. The principle of least privilege helps guide how much access a given system should have to perform actions. Originally formulated by Jerome Saltzer, “Every program and every privileged user of the system should operate using Continue reading

IBM, Orange Top UK’s SDN Market, Says ISG Report

IBM and Orange Business Services top the list of U.K. SDN vendors, according to an ISG report that...

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OnX Adds Cisco SD-WAN to Its Managed Service Portfolio

Toronto-based cloud services provider OnX Canada is now offering Cisco's SD-WAN as a managed...

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How Will Open Source Deal With Success?

“Part of winning is that with great power comes great responsibility,” noted Red Hat CTO Chris...

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Check Point Expands CloudGuard to SD-WAN Security

Check Point expanded its CloudGuard portfolio with the launch of two new security suites aimed at...

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VMware Adds Load Balancer, Analytics Engine to NSX

VMware rolled out updates to its NSX networking platform including a new analytics engine and load...

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Rackspace Targets Hybrid-Cloud Adoption With New Services

Rackspace rolled out five new enhancements to its hybrid cloud portfolio aimed at helping customers...

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Mellanox Reveals SmartNICs With 200 Gb/s Connectivity

Mellanox today introduced a pair of SmartNICs for data center servers and storage systems at...

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IBM Drives Quantum-Safe Cryptography Into Its Public Cloud

IBM predicts that due to the rate of progress in quantum computing data protected by current...

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Netflix Discovers Severe Kubernetes HTTP/2 Vulnerabilities

Taking a look at how the internet’s HTTP/2 protocol works, Netflix engineers discovered CVE-2019-9512 Ping Flood. This enables an attacker to send continual ping requests to an HTTP/2 peer, causing the peer to create an internal queue of responses. When this happens a server’s CPU and memory can be consumed, which can lead to a denial of service. already issued patches that are found in the following builds: Continue reading

VMware Buys Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B

VMware said it will buy Pivotal in a deal valued at $2.7 billion and security company Carbon Black...

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Supercharging Firewall Events for Self-Serve

Supercharging Firewall Events for Self-Serve

Today, I’m very pleased to announce the release of a completely overhauled version of our Firewall Event log to our Free, Pro and Business customers. This new Firewall Events log is now available in your Dashboard, and you are not required to do anything to receive this new capability.

Supercharging Firewall Events for Self-Serve

No more modals!

We have done away with those pesky modals, providing a much smoother user experience. To review more detailed information about an event, you simply click anywhere on the event list row.

Supercharging Firewall Events for Self-Serve

In the expanded view, you are provided with all the information you may need to identify or diagnose issues with your Firewall or find more details about a potential threat to your application.

Additional matches per event

Cloudflare has several Firewall features to give customers granular control of their security. With this control comes some complexity when debugging why a request was stopped by the Firewall. To help clarify what happened, we have provided an “Additional matches” count at the bottom for events triggered by multiple services or rules for the same request. Clicking the number expands a list showing each rule and service along with the corresponding action.

Supercharging Firewall Events for Self-Serve

Search for any field within a Firewall Event

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Can a Composable Hypervisor Re-Imagine Virtualization?

“Virtualization is changing and what people need from virtualization is changing,” said Intel's...

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VMware Buying Spree Continues With Intrinsic

VMware bought Intrinsic, an application security startup, in its fifth acquisition in three months,...

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Microsoft, Intel, and Red Hat Back Confidential Computing

The Linux Foundation’s Confidential Computing Consortium is a who’s who of cloud providers,...

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VMware Cloud on AWS: NSX and Avi Networks Load Balancing and Security

Authors and Contributors

I want to thank both Bhushan Pai, and Matt Karnowski, who joined VMware from the Avi Networks acquisition, for helping with the Avi Networks setup in my VMware Cloud on AWS lab and helping with some of the details in this blog.

Humair Ahmed, Sr. Technical Product Manager, VMware NSBU
Bhushan Pai, Sr. Technical Product Manager, VMware NSBU
Matt Karnowski , Product Line Manager, VMware NSBU

With the recent acquisition of Avi Networks, a complete VMware solution leveraging advanced load balancing and Application Delivery Controller (ADC) capabilities can be leveraged. In addition to load balancing, these capabilities include global server load balancing, web application firewall (WAF) and advanced analytics and monitoring.

In this blog, we walk through an example of how the Avi Networks load balancer can be leveraged within a VMware Cloud on AWS software-defined data center (SDDC).

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Cybersecurity Tech Accord Adopts Bug Disclosure Policies

The 111 Cybersecurity Tech Accord companies compete daily but all agree on the big picture:...

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Deep Dive: How Healthcare Organizations Practice Privacy and Security

In April, the Online Trust Alliance published the 11th annual Online Trust Audit assessing the security and privacy of 1,200 top organizations across several industry sectors. For the first time, this year’s Audit covered 100 of the top healthcare organizations, including lab testing companies, pharmacies, hospital chains, and insurance providers. 

How did they do?

Since this is the first year these organizations were included, we do not have historical comparisons, but we can compare how healthcare sites fared against the other audited sectors. Overall, 57% of healthcare sites made this year’s Honor Roll, the lowest of all the sectors we studied. By far the most common reason for failure in the healthcare sector was weak email security (35%, nearly triple the overall average). Failure due to privacy was better than average, while failure due to site security was slightly worse than average. 

Email Security

SPF and DKIM help protect against forged email. Overall 87% of healthcare organizations had SPF on their top-level domain and 67% had DKIM (the lowest of any sector, and the main source of healthcare’s failing scores).  DMARC builds on SPF and DKIM results, provides a means for feedback reports, and adds visibility for Continue reading

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