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Opening Up The Server Bus For Coherent Acceleration

When IBM started to use the word “open” in conjunction with its Power architecture more than three years with the formation of the OpenPower Foundation three years ago, Big Blue was not confused about what that term meant. If the Power architecture was to survive, it would do so by having open specifications that would allow third parties to not only make peripherals, but also to license the technology and make clones of Power8 or Power9 processors.

One of the key technologies that IBM wove into the Power8 chip that differentiates it from Xeon, Opteron, ARM, and Sparc processors is …

Opening Up The Server Bus For Coherent Acceleration was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Check Point SandBlast takes endpoint protection to another level

Check Point has long been known as a firewall company but it is reaching beyond its roots with a new series of protective technologies under its SandBlast line.SandBlast has been around for several years, but received several significant updates over the past year to make it a truly effective endpoint protection product that can handle a wide variety of zero-day exploits across your entire enterprise.The goal behind SandBlast is simply stated: you want to lock down as many entry points for malware as possible, and make your network less of a target for hackers to establish a beachhead and run these exploits.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)

Check Point SandBlast takes endpoint protection to another level

Check Point has long been known as a firewall company but it is reaching beyond its roots with a new series of protective technologies under its SandBlast line.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)

New products of the week 10.17.16

New products of the weekOur roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World's products of the week slideshow.ScreenBeam 960Key features: ScreenBeam 960 is an enterprise-grade wireless display receiver for business professionals, medical practitioners and educators who need wireless display connectivity to collaborate, create and communicate. More info.§ For medium-to-large scale deployments§ Designed specifically for commercial applications and dense wireless environments§ No Wi-Fi network required§ Supports Windows 7/8, 8.1 and 10To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 10.17.16

Application tie-ins are taking center stage in collaboration

Combining different forms of collaboration in one platform is only part of the battle when it comes to helping co-workers connect. There’s also integration with productivity applications so that employees don’t have to constantly switch between screens.Cisco Systems scored a win in this area last month when it made a deal to bring its Spark and WebEx systems into Salesforce. But Avaya, an enterprise networking company that lacks Cisco’s heft and high-profile partnerships, says this is where it can stand out in workplace communication. On Monday, it announced an all-in-one collaboration platform called Avaya Equinox, plus an open SDK (software development kit) for making other applications work with it.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Freeboard, web dashboards made easy

Amongst all of the things in our digital lives there’s one that’s increased exponentially over the last few years: Status data. Even though many services and devices are highly reliable we still need to keep an eye on everything so we need to monitor our network connections for availability and throughput, our servers and web apps for status, our log files for errors, our sales systems for orders, our trouble ticket systems for backlogs … the list grows every day and because each data source is a silo, we wind up with a ridiculous number of isolated status reports to routinely check . What we need is a dashboard to integrate all of our data sources.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Windows SSH client with TPM

I managed to get an SSH client working using an SSH pubkey protected by a TPM.

Optional: Take ownership of the TPM chip

This is not needed, since TPM operations only need well known SRK PIN, not owner PIN, to do useful stuff. I only document it here in case you want to do it. Microsoft recommends against it.

Set OSManagedAuthLevel to 4 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\TPM\OSManagedAuthLevel 2 -> 4

Reboot.
Clear TPM

Run tpm.msc and choose “Clear TPM”. The machine will reboot and ask you to press F12 or something for physical proof of presence to clear it.
Set owner password from within tpm.msc

Set up TPM for SSH

Create key

tpmvscmgr.exe create /name "myhostnamehere VSC" /pin prompt /adminkey random /generate

PIN must be at least 8 characters.

Create CSR

Create a new text file req.inf:

[NewRequest]
Subject = "CN=myhostnamehere"
Keylength = 2048
Exportable = FALSE
UserProtected = TRUE
MachineKeySet = FALSE
ProviderName = "Microsoft Base Smart Card Crypto Provider"
ProviderType = 1
RequestType = PKCS10
KeyUsage = 0x80

certreq -new -f req.inf myhostname.csr

If you get any errors, just reboot and try again with the command that failed.

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Windows SSH client with TPM

I managed to get an SSH client working using an SSH pubkey protected by a TPM.

This is another post in my series in playing with TPM chips:

Optional: Take ownership of the TPM chip

This is not needed, since TPM operations only need well known SRK PIN, not owner PIN, to do useful stuff. I only document it here in case you want to do it. Microsoft recommends against it.

Set OSManagedAuthLevel to 4

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\TPM\OSManagedAuthLevel 2 -> 4

Reboot.
Clear TPM

Run tpm.msc and choose “Clear TPM”. The machine will reboot and ask you to press F12 or something for physical proof of presence to clear it.
Set owner password from within tpm.msc

Set up TPM for SSH

Create key

C:\> tpmvscmgr.exe create /name “myhostnamehere VSC” /pin prompt /adminkey random /generate

PIN must be at least 8 characters.

Create CSR

Create a new text file req.inf:

[NewRequest]
Subject = “CN=myhostnamehere”
Keylength = 2048
Exportable = FALSE
UserProtected = TRUE
MachineKeySet = FALSE
ProviderName = “Microsoft Base Smart Card Crypto Provider”
ProviderType = 1
RequestType = PKCS10
KeyUsage = 0x80

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13% off AmazonBasics High Security 17-Sheet Micro-Cut Paper, CD, and Credit Card Shredder – Deal Alert

This powerful shredder from AmazonBasics micro-cuts a letter-sized sheet of paper into 2,235 useless pieces of confetti, up to 17 sheets at a time. Inserted one at a time into the designated slot, it also destroys credit cards, CDs, DVDs, and Blu Rays, rendering them completely unusable. It features a generous 7-gallon bin that pulls out for easy disposal. This micro-cut shredder averages 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon from over 170 people (82% rate a full 5 stars: read reviews). Its typical list price of $165 has been reduced 13% to $144.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

13% off AmazonBasics High Security 17-Sheet Micro-Cut Paper, CD, and Credit Card Shredder – Deal Alert

13% off AmazonBasics 17-Sheet Micro-Cut Paper, CD, and Credit Card Shredder – Deal Alert

GitLab deleted, then restored, list of online stores infected with skimming software

For at least six months, the online store at the National Republican Senatorial Committee site had “hidden skimming software” in the form of malicious JavaScript code. It was far from the only store hackers had compromised via exploiting vulnerabilities in unpatched versions of ecommerce platforms, such as Magento. In fact, at least 5,925 stores were unwittingly participating in online skimming attacks run by multiple cybercriminal groups. Dutch researcher Willem de Groot estimated that 85 stores are compromised daily.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

GitLab deleted, then restored, list of online stores infected with skimming software

GitLab deleted then restored list of online stores infected with skimming software

For at least six months, the online store at the National Republican Senatorial Committee site had “hidden skimming software” in the form of malicious JavaScript code; it was far from the only store which hackers had compromised via exploiting vulnerabilities in unpatched versions of ecommerce platforms, such as Magento. In fact, at least 5,925 stores were unwittingly participating in online skimming attacks run by multiple cybercriminal groups. Dutch researcher Willem de Groot estimated that 85 stores are compromised daily.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

GitLab deleted then restored list of online stores infected with skimming software

Big Black Friday prize: Virtual reality gaming systems?

A fresh infusion of virtual reality gaming systems such as Sony PlayStation VR could make these hot Black Friday 2016 shopping items, but don't expect to get off too easy on prices. Sony this month just started selling PlayStation VR, which starts at $400 just for the headset, so figure on $500 if you want the bundle of headset/camera/controllers (and you'll need a PlayStation console too). Then you're going to need some games as well. PlayStation VR joins the Oculus Rift and HTC VIVE, both of which became available earlier this year, going beyond the less elaborate VR viewers such as Google Cardboard and Samsung Gear VR.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

One of the better explanations of SDN

Stumbled upon this via HighScalability:

Every time I feel like I'm "out of touch" with the hip new thing, I take a weekend to look into it. I tend to discover that the core principles are the same [...]; or you can tell they didn't learn from the previous solution and this new one misses the mark, but it'll be three years before anyone notices (because those with experience probably aren't touching it yet, and those without experience will discover the shortcomings in time.)

Yep, that explains the whole centralized control plane ruckus ;) Read also a similar musing by Ethan Banks.

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