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The Internet Is Broken, and Shellshock Is Just the Start of Our Woes
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Brian Fox drove from Boston to Santa Barbara, with two tapes stashed in his trunk. These weren’t music tapes or video tapes. They were computer tapes—two massive reels loaded software code and data, the sort you can see spinning on furniture-sized computers in classic movies like Dr. Strangelove and Three Days of the Condor. The year was 1987,…
Improved Patch Tackles New Shellshock Bash Bug Attack Vectors
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System administrators who spent last week making sure their computers are patched against Shellshock, a critical vulnerability in the Bash Unix command-line interpreter, will have to install a new patch that addresses additional attack vectors. The Shellshock vulnerability was originally discovered by Akamai Technologies security researcher Stephane Chazelas and can be exploited in several ways to…
Shellshock Makes Heartbleed Look Insignificant
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The new vulnerability in the Bash shell is the worst we’ve seen in many years. No software on critical systems can be assumed as safe. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
Make Linux Troubleshooting Easier
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It’s up to the sysadmin to ensure that Linux servers operate at peak performance. Linux troubleshooting is of paramount concern in the data center. Data center experts answered some of your burning Linux server troubleshooting questions around performance problems, optimization and useful tools. Read more at TechTarget. Source: Linux
How to Overcome the Cloud-Savvy IT Talent Shortage
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Senior executives at large multinational enterprises are already demanding that their CIO has a plan in place to ensure that they can effectively procure public and private cloud services for their organization. In smaller companies, some IT managers are now expected to acquire the knowledge and skills to perform a similar role. Are they prepared?…
10 Things You Need to Know About the Hot DevOps Trend
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DevOps results in faster software/application deployment and quicker problem detection. Here are misconceptions about transitioning to DevOps. Read more at eWeek Source: Linux
Future of the Enterprise: Heavy Investment in Internet of Things Security
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Research firm Gartner says over 20 percent of enterprises will invest in security for business initiatives using Internet of Things devices by 2017. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
6 Strategies for Cancelling a Major IT Project
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In the recent book Think Like a Freak, well-known authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner touch on a difficult topic for those in charge of IT budgets and project development: What if your project fails? In their witty and highly opinionated style, they explain how failure in business isn’t always a bad thing.…
Netflix: Introducing Chaos Engineering
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Ideally distributed systems are designed to be so robust and fault-tolerant that they never fail. We must anticipate failure modes, determine ways to inject these conditions in a controlled manner and evolve our reliability design patterns. Anticipating such events requires creativity and deep understanding of distributed systems; two of the most critical characteristics of Chaos…