News Category: Networking
Jack Wallen | February 3, 2017
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Shorewall is an open source firewalling tool that makes the task of network security easier.
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An Introduction to the Shorewall Firewall Tool
Linux is well known for being a highly secure platform. One of the reasons for said security is the Netfilter system. For those that don’t know, Netfilter is a framework, provided by the Linux kernel, that allows for various networking operations, such as packet filtering, network address...
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The New Stack | February 3, 2017
GitLab Data Loss Incident Prompts a Review of its Restore Processes
A short outage this week on the GitLab hosted code service struck a combination of fear and sympathy across the tech community and offered a sharp reminder of the importance of testing your backups again and again (and again).
On Tuesday, a GitLab administrator had accidentally erased a directory...
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InfoWorld | February 3, 2017
10 IT Skills that Employers Need in 2017
Unemployment rates in the IT industry are still hovering at historic lows, and some roles -- like network and security engineers and software developers -- are showing unemployment rates of around 1 percent. A recent survey from Robert Half Technology showed that the majority of CIOs will either...
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Network World | February 3, 2017
New Open Source Project Trireme Aims to Secure Containers
A team made of former Cisco and Nuage Networks veterans has developed an open source project it released this week named Trireme that takes an application-centric approach to securing code written in containers.
Trireme is deigned to work with Docker containers and integrates with Kubernetes, the...
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SDx Central | February 3, 2017
NFV Interoperability Testing Needs to Accelerate
Many service providers have deployed network function virtualization (NFV) software but few have the tools in place to orchestrate and manage NFV software from multiple vendors. To foster interoperability, a series of initiatives and services have been launched to help organizations determine what ...
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NYMag | February 3, 2017
Click Here to Kill Everyone: Security and the Internet of Things
All computers are hackable. This has as much to do with the computer market as it does with the technologies. We prefer our software full of features and inexpensive, at the expense of security and reliability. That your computer can affect the security of Twitter is a market failure. The industry...
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Falko Timme | February 3, 2017
How to Capture and Stream your Gaming Session on Linux
There may not be many hardcore gamers who use Linux, but there certainly are quite a lot Linux users who like to play a game now and then. If you are one of them and would like to show the world that Linux gaming isn’t a joke anymore, then you will find the following quick tutorial on how to...
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Tech Radar | February 2, 2017
How to Use One Time Pad Cryptography with a Raspberry Pi
What if, however, there were a way to be certain that your personal emails, pictures of your pet kitten, backups of your tax returns for the past decade and so on were safe even if intercepted? Enter the One Time Pad.
The Notorious OTP
In simplest terms, a One Time Pad is a series of random numbers...
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Julia Evans | February 2, 2017
Dissecting an SSL Certificate
I think it’s interesting to know what it means to “issue a SSL certificate” and I can talk about that a little.
TLS: newer version of SSL
I was confused about what this “TLS” thing was for a long time. Basically newer versions of SSL are called TLS (the version after SSL 3.0 is TLS 1.0). I’m going...
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Sam Dean | February 1, 2017 contrails-cloud.jpg
OpenContrail, an SDN platform used with the OpenStack cloud computing platform, is emerging as an essential tool around which administrators will need to develop skillsets.
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OpenContrail: An Essential Tool in the OpenStack Ecosystem
Throughout 2016, software-defined networking (SDN) rapidly evolved, and numerous players in the open source and cloud computing arenas are now helping it gain momentum. In conjunction with that trend, OpenContrail, a popular SDN platform used with the OpenStack cloud computing platform, is emerging...
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