A New Perspective on Security and the Public Cloud
Moving applications and data to the public cloud brings a number of security advantages.
Moving applications and data to the public cloud brings a number of security advantages.
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On Jun 21, the OpenVPN team released an update for the 2.3.x and 2.4.x branches that resolved some newly discovered security vulnerabilities. The OpenVPN team recommends that users “upgrade to OpenVPN 2.4.3 or 2.3.17 as soon as possible“.
OpenBSD 6.0–which was released Sep 1 2016 and is still receiving security updates to the base system as per OpenBSD’s policy–shipped with a package for OpenVPN 2.3.11. Below you will find a patch and instructions for using the ports system to upgrade to version 2.3.11. Note that if you’re running OpenBSD 6.1, the ports tree has been updated to 2.4.3 so all you need to do is “cvs up” and “make install”.
Instructions:
% cd ports/net/openvpn
% patch < ~/openvpn-2.3.17p0.diff
% make install
Original article: OpenVPN 2.3.17 on OpenBSD 6.0
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We’ve written a couple times about the problem of patent trolls, and what we are doing in response to the first case a troll filed against Cloudflare. We set a goal to find prior art on all 38 Blackbird Tech patents and applications and then obtain a legal determination that Blackbird Tech’s patents are invalid. Such a determination will end Blackbird’s ability to file or threaten to file abusive patent claims, against us or anyone else.
The patent system exists to reward inventors, so it is no surprise that a patent has to claim something new — an “invention.” Sometimes the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) — the agency that administers the patent system — mistakenly issues patents that do not claim anything particularly new. The patent examiner may not be aware that the proposed “invention” was already in use in the industry, and the patent applicant (the only party in the process) doesn’t have an incentive to share that information. Often, the USPTO issues patents that are too vague and can later be broadly interpreted by patent owners to cover different and subsequent technologies that could not otherwise Continue reading
Without a fast network and services that securely deliver apps, digital transformation will grind to a halt.
Johannes Weber published the solutions to his Wireshark challenges. How many did you solve?
All the compute power in the world is useless against code that cannot scale. And neither compute or code can be useful if growing data for simulations cannot be collected and managed.
But ultimately, none of this is useful at all if the industry that needs these HPC resources is having more trouble than ever acquiring them. It comes as no surprise that the national labs and major research centers will be the first to get exaflop-capable systems, but in a normal market (like the one oil and gas knew not long ago) these machines would be relatively quickly followed …
Exascale on the Far Horizon for Cash-Strapped Oil and Gas was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
It’s almost time for Cisco Live in Las Vegas. It’s Friday morning here and I have 95% of the packing done and I leave on Saturday. If this is your first time going to CLUS or even going to the US it can be challenging to know what to pack and if you need to bring cash etc. Here are some of my recommendations for packing. Make a list so that you don’t forget to pack things.
Essentials
Make sure to pack your passport. This is pretty obvious. Hopefully you already made sure that the passport is up to date as well.
I bring a copy of my approved ESTA. This is not mandatory but it’s nice having it there in case a security officer asks you. Depending where you are from you might not be part of the ESTA program.
I always print a copy of my booking for the flight and hotel etc. While not something you need when you have electronic check-in etc. I still like to keep a copy so that I have all of the info about my flight and hotel in case I can’t get on my phone.
Electronic Devices
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In this Getting Started blog post, we cover how to install Ansible Tower by Red Hat as a clustered environment. If you haven’t already, check out our previous post that outlines the steps on how to install Tower on a single node.
With the addition of Clustering with Tower 3.1, Tower users now have the ability to install Tower as a clustered install rather than just doing an all-in-one install. Clustering is sharing load between hosts. Each node should be able to act as an entry point for UI and API access. This should enable Tower administrators to use load balancers in front of as many nodes as they wish and maintain good data visibility.
Installing Tower in a cluster only has two differences from a standard all-in-one Tower install:
If you are preparing to install Tower, consider what function Tower will serve for you. If you are deploying Tower in a production environment, you should be using a clustered installation able to provide highly available Tower instances and use an external DB, either as a Continue reading