The silver lining in the Intel CEO drama

I assume that by now you’ve heard the news that Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has stepped down for reportedly violating the company's strict policy against having relationships with employees. As CFO Bob Swan takes the reigns, the question of who will replace Krzanich is front and center.Several analysts I’ve spoken to even before this happened said they think Intel needs to look to the outside for its next CEO. In its 50-year history, the company has had only six CEOs, all of them insiders. Intel has a reputation as a tough place to work; nobody treads water at Intel. In the volatile Silicon Valley, I found Intel was a place where people either came and went fast or hung around forever. If you are cut out for its culture, expect to be promoted up the food chain rather quickly.To read this article in full, please click here

The Art Of Supercomputing War

The shenanigans with the Top 500 rankings of the world’s most powerful supercomputers continues, but there are a bunch of real supercomputers that were added to the list for the June 2018 rankings, and we are thankful, as always, to gain the insight we can glean from the Top 500 on these new machines that are clearly used for HPC workloads. …

The Art Of Supercomputing War was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .

IBM ends China’s 5-year reign atop supercomputer rankings

There’s a shake-up – and a scandal – in the Top500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.The U.S. has retaken first place in the Top500 list after five years of dominance by China. Computers built by IBM for the U.S. Department of Energy have pushed the previous two record-holders, both Chinese, into second and fourth place.[ Now see who's developing quantum computers.] But the previous fourth placeholder, Japan’s Gyoukou, is nowhere to be found, after one of its creators was arrested on suspicion of fraud.To read this article in full, please click here

IBM ends China’s 5-year reign atop supercomputer rankings

There’s a shake-up – and a scandal – in the Top500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.The U.S. has retaken first place in the Top500 list after five years of dominance by China. Computers built by IBM for the U.S. Department of Energy have pushed the previous two record-holders, both Chinese, into second and fourth place.[ Now see who's developing quantum computers.] But the previous fourth placeholder, Japan’s Gyoukou, is nowhere to be found, after one of its creators was arrested on suspicion of fraud.To read this article in full, please click here

To distribute or not to distribute? Why licensing bugs matter

To distribute or not to distribute? Why licensing bugs matter Vendome et al., ICSE’18

Software licensing can quickly get quite complicated, with over 100 known open source licenses out there, and distributions often including components with a mix of licenses. Unsurprisingly, developers find it hard to determine appropriate licenses for their work, and to interpret the implications of including third-party software under different licenses.

We present a large-scale qualitative study aimed at characterizing licensing bugs, with the goal of understanding the types of licensing bugs developers face, their legal and technical implications, and how such bugs are fixed.

The result is a helpful catalogue of seven different categories of licensing bugs, with 21 sub-categories in total between them. Although the authors are not lawyers (as far as I can tell), it still constitutes a very useful list of things to think about. “Our proposed catalog can serve as a reference for developers and lawyers dealing with potential licensing issues.”

The catalogue is drawn from an open coding exercise based on a statistically significant sample of 1,200 discussions randomly selected from a population of 59,426 discussions across a collection of issue trackers and mailing lists. The mailing lists Continue reading

SMB version detection in masscan

My Internet-scale port scanner, masscan, supports "banner checking", grabbing basic information from a service after it connects to a port. It's less comprehensive than nmap's version and scripting checks, but it's better than just recording which ports are open.

I recently extended this banner checking to include SMB. It's a complicated protocol so requires a lot more work than just grabbing text banners like you see on FTP. Implementing this, I've found that nmap and smbclient often fail to get version information. They seem focused on getting the information from a standard location in SMBv1 packets, which gives a text string indicating version. There's another place you get get it, from the NTLMSSP pluggable authentication chunks, which gives version numbers in the form of major version, minor version. and build number. Sometimes the SMBv1 information is missing, either because newer Windows version disable SMBv1 by default (supporting only SMBv2) or because they've disabled null/anonymous sessions. They still give NTLMSSP version info, though.


For example, running masscan in my local bar, I get the following result:

Banner on port 445/tcp on 10.1.10.200: [smb] SMBv1  time=2018-06-24 22:18:13 TZ=+240  domain=SHIPBARBO version=6.1.7601 ntlm-ver=15 domain=SHIPBARBO name=SHIPBARBO domain-dns=SHIPBARBO Continue reading

Routing Security & IPv6 at NANOG 73 in Denver

We’ll be at NANOG 73 in Denver, CO, USA this week talking about routing security, MANRS, and IPv6.

The North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) is the professional association for Internet engineering, architecture and operations. Its core focus is on continuous improvement of the data transmission technologies, practices, and facilities that make the Internet function. NANOG meetings are among the largest in the region, bringing together top technologists on a wide range of topics.

Routing Security

On Tuesday, 26 June, at 1:30PM, Andrei Robachevsky will give a talk called, “Routing Is At Risk. Let’s Secure It Together.”

From the session abstract:

“Stolen cryptocurrency, hijacked traffic blocking access to whole countries, derailing vital Web resources for thousands of people. Routing used to fly under the radar. As long as incidents weren’t too bad, no one asked too many questions, and routing security never made it to the top of the to-do list. But these days, routing incidents are regularly making the news, executives are getting nervous, and engineers are under pressure to make sure their network isn’t next. The problem is, you cannot secure your own network entirely by yourself. But you can help secure the global routing system Continue reading

Build oVirt Reports Using Grafana

Grafana, The open platform for beautiful analytics and monitoring, recently added support for PostgreSQL.

It in now possible to connect Grafana to oVirt DWH, in order to visualize and monitor the oVirt environment.

Grafana dashboard example

Adding a Read-Only User to the History Database

You may want to add a read only user to connect the history database :

Note: In oVirt 4.2 we ship postgres 9.5 through the Software Collection.

  1. In order to run psql you will need to run:

    # su - postgres 
$ scl enable rh-postgresql95 -- psql ovirt_engine_history

  2. Create the user to be granted read-only access to the history database:

    ovirt_engine_history=# CREATE ROLE [user name] WITH LOGIN ENCRYPTED PASSWORD '[password]';

  3. Grant the newly created user permission to connect to the history database:

    ovirt_engine_history=# GRANT CONNECT ON DATABASE ovirt_engine_history TO [user name];

  4. Grant the newly created user usage of the public schema:

    ovirt_engine_history=# GRANT USAGE ON SCHEMA public TO [user name];

  5. Exit the database

    ovirt_engine_history=# \q

  6. Generate the rest of the permissions that will be granted to the newly created user and save them to a file:

    $ scl enable rh-postgresql95 -- psql -U postgres -c "SELECT 'GRANT SELECT ON ' || relname  Continue reading

Build oVirt Reports Using Grafana

Grafana, The open platform for beautiful analytics and monitoring, recently added support for PostgreSQL.

It in now possible to connect Grafana to oVirt DWH, in order to visualize and monitor the oVirt environment.

Grafana dashboard example

Adding a Read-Only User to the History Database

You may want to add a read only user to connect the history database :

Note: In oVirt 4.2 we ship postgres 9.5 through the Software Collection.

  1. In order to run psql you will need to run:

    # su - postgres 
$ scl enable rh-postgresql95 -- psql ovirt_engine_history

  2. Create the user to be granted read-only access to the history database:

    ovirt_engine_history=# CREATE ROLE [user name] WITH LOGIN ENCRYPTED PASSWORD '[password]';

  3. Grant the newly created user permission to connect to the history database:

    ovirt_engine_history=# GRANT CONNECT ON DATABASE ovirt_engine_history TO [user name];

  4. Grant the newly created user usage of the public schema:

    ovirt_engine_history=# GRANT USAGE ON SCHEMA public TO [user name];

  5. Exit the database

    ovirt_engine_history=# \q

  6. Generate the rest of the permissions that will be granted to the newly created user and save them to a file:

    $ scl enable rh-postgresql95 -- psql -U postgres -c "SELECT 'GRANT SELECT ON ' || relname  Continue reading

Routing Loop, Failure by Design

I have spent some time studying the CCDE materials. One broken design example that has come up involves route reflector clients that don’t align with the physical topology. This article examines that example and some solutions to the problem.

To illustrate this example we have built the topology below. I used loopback addresses 1.1.1.1 through 6.6.6.6 (based on csr1000v-x). The router on the top is a eBGP neighbor with csr1000v-1 and csr1000v-2. The four routers forming a square in the center have an initial configuration of OSFP and BGP (iBGP as shown). Both Route Reflectors are peered with both clients.

Route Reflector Initial Configuration

//csr1000v-2 shown, csr1000v-3 similar

router ospf 1
router-id 2.2.2.2
passive-interface GigabitEthernet2
network 2.2.2.2 0.0.0.0 area 0
network 10.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 area 0

router bgp 64513
bgp router-id 2.2.2.2
bgp log-neighbor-changes
neighbor 3.3.3.3 remote-as 64513
neighbor 3.3.3.3 update-source Loopback0
neighbor 4.4.4.4 remote-as 64513
neighbor 4.4.4.4 update-source Loopback0
neighbor 4.4.4.4 route-reflector-client
neighbor 5.5.5.5 remote-as 64513
 Continue reading

Routing Loop, Failure by Design

I have spent some time studying the CCDE materials. One broken design example that has come up involves route reflector clients that don’t align with the physical topology. This article examines that example and some solutions to the problem.

To illustrate this example we have built the topology below. I used loopback addresses 1.1.1.1 through 6.6.6.6 (based on csr1000v-x). The router on the top is a eBGP neighbor with csr1000v-1 and csr1000v-2. The four routers forming a square in the center have an initial configuration of OSFP and BGP (iBGP as shown). Both Route Reflectors are peered with both clients.

Route Reflector Initial Configuration

//csr1000v-2 shown, csr1000v-3 similar

router ospf 1
router-id 2.2.2.2
passive-interface GigabitEthernet2
network 2.2.2.2 0.0.0.0 area 0
network 10.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 area 0

router bgp 64513
bgp router-id 2.2.2.2
bgp log-neighbor-changes
neighbor 3.3.3.3 remote-as 64513
neighbor 3.3.3.3 update-source Loopback0
neighbor 4.4.4.4 remote-as 64513
neighbor 4.4.4.4 update-source Loopback0
neighbor 4.4.4.4 route-reflector-client
neighbor 5.5.5.5 remote-as 64513
 Continue reading

Routing Loop, Failure by Design

I have spent some time studying the CCDE materials. One broken design example that has come up involves route reflector clients that don’t align with the physical topology. This article examines that example and some solutions to the problem.

To illustrate this example we have built the topology below. I used loopback addresses 1.1.1.1 through 6.6.6.6 (based on csr1000v-x). The router on the top is a eBGP neighbor with csr1000v-1 and csr1000v-2. The four routers forming a square in the center have an initial configuration of OSFP and BGP (iBGP as shown). Both Route Reflectors are peered with both clients.

Route Reflector Initial Configuration

//csr1000v-2 shown, csr1000v-3 similar

router ospf 1
router-id 2.2.2.2
passive-interface GigabitEthernet2
network 2.2.2.2 0.0.0.0 area 0
network 10.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 area 0

router bgp 64513
bgp router-id 2.2.2.2
bgp log-neighbor-changes
neighbor 3.3.3.3 remote-as 64513
neighbor 3.3.3.3 update-source Loopback0
neighbor 4.4.4.4 remote-as 64513
neighbor 4.4.4.4 update-source Loopback0
neighbor 4.4.4.4 route-reflector-client
neighbor 5.5.5.5 remote-as 64513
 Continue reading

BrandPost: Growing Reliance On Multi-Cloud Boosts Need For Smart Data

As the cloud computing market has soared, businesses have begun incorporating a mix of cloud services to meet their Digital Transformation (DX) objectives. Multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments are fast becoming the option of choice. In fact, according to a recent Information Age article, 451 Research determined that the future of IT is multi-cloud and hybrid with 69 percent of survey respondents planning to incorporate some form of multi-cloud environment by 2019.To read this article in full, please click here

Watch Live On Monday, 25 June – DNSSEC Workshop at ICANN 62 in Panama

With the DNSSEC Root Key Rollover coming up on October 11, how prepared are we as an industry? What kind of data can we collect in preparation? What is the cost benefit (or not) of implementing DANE? What can we learn from an existing rollover of a cryptographic algorithm?

All those questions and more will be discussed at the DNSSEC Workshop at the ICANN 62 meeting in Panama City, Panama, on Monday, June 25, 2018. The session will begin at 9:00 and conclude at 12:15 EST (UTC-5). [Note: this is one hour different than current US Eastern Daylight Time – Panama does not change to daylight savings time – and so this will begin at 10:00 EDT (UTC-4).]

The agenda includes:

  • DNSSEC Workshop Introduction, Program, Deployment Around the World – Counts, Counts, Counts
  • Panel: DNSSEC Activities and Post Key Signing Key Rollover Preparation
  • DANE: Status, Cost Benefits, Impact from KSK Rollover
  • An Algorithm Rollover  (case study from CZ.NIC)
  • Panel: KSK Rollover Data Collection and Analysis
  • DNSSEC – How Can I Help?
  • The Great DNSSEC/DNS Quiz

It should be an outstanding session!  For those onsite, the workshop will be in Salon 4, the ccNSO room.

Weekend Reads 062218: Bitcoin and Security Flaws

But, as with all new technology, security risks can be found beneath the hype. Indeed, threat actors are finding new targets amid the rise of blockchain as they serve up social-engineering attacks, malware, and exploits to businesses and consumers, according to a recently published report by McAfee’s Advanced Threat Research Team. —Kelly Sheridan @Dark Reading

After last Thursday’s regulatory news that bitcoin and ether were not considered securities, which was widely considered a win for crypto enthusiasts, digital currencies had failed to hold on to gains, a sign the bear market is firmly intact. However, investors were hoping Monday’s move above the post-SEC-statement high will be the start of a more fruitful period for digital currency owners. —Aaron Hankin @MarketWatch

Dubbed Lazy FP State Restore, the vulnerability (CVE-2018-3665) within Intel Core and Xeon processors has just been confirmed by Intel, and vendors are now rushing to roll out security updates in order to fix the flaw and keep their customers protected. The company has not yet released technical details about the vulnerability, but since the vulnerability resides in the CPU, the flaw affects all devices running Intel Core-based microprocessors regardless of the installed operating systems, except some modern versions of Continue reading

DockerCon 2018: Top 5 Rated Sessions

We are happy to share the videos from the top 5 rated sessions from last week’s DockerCon 2018 in San Francisco. The DockerCon on-demand sessions videos are ready for you to explore.

Note: The Ecosystem sessions will not be available.

Demystifying Container Connectivity with Kubernetes in Docker

by Nicola Kabar & Karthik Prabhakar

Message-Based Microservices Architectures Driven with Docker

by Michele Leroux Bustamante

Docker Storage: Designing a Platform for Persistent Data

by Dan Finneran

Istio: Managing, Securing, and Observing Microservices

by Lin Sun & Zack Butcher 

Tips and Tricks of the Docker Captains

by Adrian Mouat

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